Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the examiner may not agree that the fact is implied in the question ; but he will not mind about this if he sees that your assumption is not the result of carelessness but is your considered interpretation of the question . |
| 2 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 3 | King is currently on holiday but Mr Corfe added : ‘ John will be delighted when he hears about this because he feels that getting into the Pontins League is , in the long-term , almost as important as getting into the Premier League . ’ |
| 4 | The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva adds another dimension to this when she says that ‘ reading is complicity in the creative process ’ ( quoted in Brodsky 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication . |
| 6 | But comparing depression to a cold is misleading in so much as it implies that the condition is not only common , but mild . |
| 7 | On the other hand , for those who regard language with suspicion , especially written or printed language , on the grounds that it misleads and confuses as much as it informs and expresses , eliminating words and sentences exposes a level of communication of unsuspected richness , one in which human beings express their true meanings . |
| 8 | But I love Augusta as much as he does and anything can happen . ’ |
| 9 | Like the unit in Pembrokeshire , it has done that because it believes that it can satisfy the Secretary of State on four points : first , that such a move would show benefits for patients ; secondly , that it would improve management capability ; thirdly , that clinicians would be involved in management ; and , fourthly , that the trust has a future of financial soundness . |
| 10 | ‘ The reduction is more than it looks because the decibel scale is a logarythmic one , ’ says Dr Greg Watts , of the Transport and Road Research laboratory at Craythorn . |
| 11 | It simply does not follow that because the legal forms have been observed , the results are more reliable ; any more than it follows that whenever the forms are breached , the results are unreliable . |
| 12 | John Davidson , the secretary of the committee , explained : ‘ We 've got some fixed dates in the diary , but we do n't always operate to those because it depends whether or not we 've got enough cases . ’ |
| 13 | This , however , can not be correct since section 36A , inserted by the 1989 Act , provides that a company need not have a common seal and that whether it has or not ‘ a document signed by a director and the secretary of the company or by two directors and expressed ( in whatever form of words ) to be executed by the company has the same effect as if executed under the common seal of the company . ’ |