Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : I wish this be not the hour , the very hour . |
| 3 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 4 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 5 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 6 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 7 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 8 | If this were not the case and F t < E ( S T ) , a trader who bought a futures contract now and held it to delivery would , on average , make a profit of E ( S T ) - F t . |
| 9 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 10 | But suppose this were not the case . |
| 11 | If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins . |
| 12 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 13 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 14 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 15 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 16 | Growth follows the direction of the arrow — perhaps to meet the other half-span if this were truly a bridge . |
| 17 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 18 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 19 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 20 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 21 | Variable ET-1-IR was seen in the vascular endothelium , this being particularly the case for Fig 2 — ET-1-IR in diseased human lungs . |
| 22 | Opponents of the resort to force , and others who regarded it as premature , maintained that the effectiveness of sanctions required their application over a longer period ( this being broadly the position adopted in early January , i.e. before the military conflict began , by the opposition Labour Party in the UK ) . |
| 23 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |
| 24 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
| 25 | This is self-consciously an escapist activity , its main value being that it avoids the careful budgeting and penny-counting which shopping itself entails . |
| 26 | This is rarely a problem for dating an archaeological site where fragments of broken pottery tend to abound , and it is usual to date several sherds from the same context to provide an average age and better precision . |
| 27 | But this is rarely the case . |
| 28 | It assumes that an easy consensus can be achieved about the nature of the problem and its resolution , when this is rarely the case . |
| 29 | This is rarely the case with the reviews published in Early music or Gramophone , some of whose reviewers have served as musicological advisers for prominent recording projects both in Europe and in England . |
| 30 | And that 's why this is traditionally the area where British bikers have broken into the world of continental racing . |