Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , despite that , there is very little direct democracy in most contemporary societies , the reasons for that are political rather than practical or technical : those who occupy positions of power and authority simply do not want it , and actively resist any attempt to bring it into being . |
| 2 | Although Uzell reckons there are no real dominant players , he divides the competition into four main areas : computer vendors , such as IBM Corp and ICL , which he reckons have the geographical scope and financial muscle to deal with the global demands of systems integration projects , but are unlikely to be independent , are often too hardware-oriented and lack the relevant software expertise ; management consultancies , such as Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse , which he believes do have the necessary business knowledge , but generally lack implementation skills and have little experience of large-scale project management ; telecommunications suppliers , such as AT&T Co and France Telecom , which again he reckons are too hardware-oriented and short of software skills ; and software houses , such as Electronic Data Systems Corp and Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , which he recommends for their independence and expertise , but feels that few are international enough or have the necessary financial clout to handle large deals . |
| 3 | The reasons for this were practical rather than doctrinal . |
| 4 | This is lower even than El Salvador with 2.5 per cent , and 4 to 5 per cent for other Central American countries in 1986 . |
| 5 | To understand why all this is sad rather than funny , it is necessary to look at what conductive education claims to be and some of the wider issues that it raises . |
| 6 | This section has been applied so as to cover the administration of a drug which causes harm to the victim 's metabolism by overstimulation , if D 's motive for this is malevolent rather than benevolent . |
| 7 | Note that this is possible even if there are a minority of individuals ( perhaps the strongest person in the queue ) who do not benefit . |
| 8 | Erm er , my name 's , an ordinary shareholder for long-standing erm , it would be very interesting , I do n't know whether this is possible now or maybe following on from what the speaker has said , if we had some idea of the American system which is er , I only know very little about it er I , just how that works because we have presidents and vice presidents and , er I think it work rather differently . |
| 9 | And this is possible only if they have control over the processes that convert raw materials to products of value . |
| 10 | It is true that 8 exemplifies a recurrent semantic contrast , but this is possible only because of the presence of m — in both sentences . |
| 11 | The Regional Council believes this is possible only because of its role in planning strategic land use , economic development and transport . |
| 12 | On the one hand , the Institute wishes to be seen as a professional body , and this is possible only where entry is restricted by academic qualification . |
| 13 | This is implicit rather than explicit , and written in a controlled rage . |
| 14 | This is zero only if the distribution is monodisperse , that is , all molecules are of the same size , and we have which is . |
| 15 | The lower-level subskills involved in word recognition can become automatised through practice , and this is necessary so that the reader 's mind can be left free to attempt alternate integrations in order to calculate the writer 's intended meaning . |
| 16 | This is necessary so that the barium can pass into the bowel for the X-ray procedure and so that good vision can be obtained through the sigmoidoscope . |
| 17 | This is necessary so that the bill can be accurately discounted . |
| 18 | This is valid only if the rate of interest is constant for all future time periods , that is , if the yield curve ( which will be discussed in the next section ) is flat . |
| 19 | This is valid only if the sum in question is paid into court ( Ord 9 , r 12 ) . |
| 20 | This is permissible indeed if the charges are at fixed positions . |
| 21 | These CDs cost more than the major company ones , but this is fair enough since the higher costs have to be spread over a smaller volume . |
| 22 | This is fair enough when the proprietary foliar feed is made up and used correctly . |
| 23 | The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public . |
| 24 | Although we have emphasized the outer limits of commuting , this is realistic only where suitable public or private transport is available to link home and workplace . |
| 25 | His interest in the precedents is exhausted , for this purpose at least , once he is satisfied that according to his conception of law they establish only that mothers at the scene have a right to recover , and this is clear immediately and with no reflection about larger underlying principles whose nature is a matter of dispute . |
| 26 | This is acceptable only if it can be demonstrated that the method gives a reasonable approximation of the actual cost . |
| 27 | This is interesting both because it suggests that non-Hebbian forms of potentiation occur in the hippocampus , and because it provides implicit evidence for the existence of a diffusible extracellular messenger ( see text ) . |
| 28 | This is commonplace enough but not theoretically interesting . |
| 29 | This is plausible enough but falls down , I submit , when the work by its very nature is of such a character that failure to adapt might be construed as being more reality orientated . |
| 30 | This is true also if ‘ cross-control ’ is separated from the field of power . |