Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That where they are generally authorised for the purpose of Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 95 of the said Act to allot equity securities ( within the meaning of Section 94 of the said Act ) for cash , as if Section 89(1) of the said Act did not apply to any such allotment provided that this power shall : |
| 2 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 3 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 4 | It is for this that he was so praised by the right for his managerial qualities . |
| 5 | The present indications are very clear that they are now preparing to intervene in Cuba and destroy the Cuban revolution . |
| 6 | It is also clear that they are seriously mistaken . |
| 7 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 8 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |
| 9 | Yet his manner made it clear that he was simply stating a fact , not flattering with a compliment . |
| 10 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 11 | A source close to the player last night made it clear that he was deeply hurt at being dropped from the match . |
| 12 | The audience was given no hint that he was envisaging the terms as an antithesis , let alone that he was feeling his way towards significant categories of thought , although from various notes from the winter of 1869–70 it is clear that he was now doing just that . |
| 13 | Beryl was staring at him , her lips were trembling and it was clear that she was deeply disturbed . |
| 14 | It is clear that it is still campaigning to have licensed growth promotions reinstated for beef cattle . |
| 15 | Even if we disregard the sporadic use of violence against the movement , and its infiltration by spies and agents provocateurs , it is clear that it was generally considered by the controlling bodies of universities and by party politicians as an illegitimate form of political action , even though its principal aim was to extend democratic participation in one of the most important institutions ( both economically and culturally ) of modern society , and in many cases it succeeded in enlivening academic studies , as well as improving methods of teaching and assessment . |
| 16 | I have no desire to detract from Mike Broderick 's promotion , but as The Bookseller is a journal of record I would like to make it clear that it was only following my resignation that the position of group home sales director was created at Random House . |
| 17 | This was first flown in 1979 , but Bill found himself hanging upside down when the brakes seized on landing , and was reluctant to repeat this so it is now owned by Disney Industries , featuring in a recent film The Rocketeer . |
| 18 | The heart-shaped shields of the Moslems , called adarga , proved so popular that they were sometimes adopted by their opponents . |
| 19 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 20 | At high levels of recursion the pattern becomes quite elaborate , but you can easily see in Figure 2 that it is still produced by the same very simple branching rule . |
| 21 | ‘ I found collecting watercolours so rewarding and interesting that I 'm slowly turning my hobby into a part-time business , ’ she says . |
| 22 | Fuel-burning appliances need an adequate supply of air to work efficiently and safely , so unless they have balanced flues , the rooms where they are sited must contain provision for this if they are well sealed against natural draughts . |
| 23 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
| 24 | He 'd never have sunk to this if he was actually trying to sell one of his plays . |
| 25 | The drawing suggests that a number of balls are available for this and they are just pushed into the hole one alter the other until it is filled and a surface can be laid on top of it . |
| 26 | The results substantiated this and it was also found that at deeper levels of processing , ‘ No ’ answers were less commonly recognised than ‘ Yes ’ answers . |
| 27 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 28 | There 's one at Kentish Town , a businessman who smokes big fat cigars like this and he 's half finished them and he throws them on the train and when the doors open no-one clears out the way and he steps on and he 's such as bastard |
| 29 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 30 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |