Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb base] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians . |
| 2 | Firstly , there are concerns that genetic engineering may , inadvertently , produce new pathogens that are detrimental to the environment by interacting with naturally occurring species or which adversely affect human health . |
| 3 | The Committee who represent or who are affiliated to 15 Catholic Societies , would like names of women who have distinguished themselves in public life or who quietly give great service to their local . |
| 4 | Where we often have great difficulty with Community proposals is when co-operation is replaced not by agreement but by majority voting on issues of concern to us . |
| 5 | Since use of land for domestic and industrial purposes is largely incompatible with clean water , potable supply rivers tend to be found in rural settings where they also have considerable amenity value . |
| 6 | And though Douglas on the surface was more generous , more giving than his sometimes taciturn elder son , Shiona recognised that what they shared in common was that fierce individuality and sense of purpose that had brought Douglas , through his own efforts , from rags to great riches . |
| 7 | I 'd like to think that I never give poor care to any patient for political reasons , ’ he mused somewhat pompously , ‘ but I 'm certainly not above giving extra good care to the wife of an important man like Bill ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
| 9 | Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows . |
| 10 | I unashamedly admit that I sometimes use this song as a form of social control . |
| 11 | Personally I like to keep things as simple as possible , so I always relate this concept to the relative major key even if I 'm dealing with a song which is in a minor key . |
| 12 | Movement from scene to scene does not use scrolling as per Lucasfilms , but requires that you completely leave one location and then enter another — this is not as smooth as other game systems , but Sierra have refined it to a fine art . |
| 13 | At this point you realise that you either need one computer to generate the images and a second to handle the transfer of these to the film recorder or you buy a bulk film pack ( which at over £6,000 costs as much again as the PCR/SlideWriter ! ) and run the imaging process overnight . |
| 14 | It 's a replacement for the DOS Type command , except that you automatically get one screen full of information at a time and you can scroll backwards and forwards , and search for particular text . |
| 15 | Now imagine that you only have one year to live . |
| 16 | The argument is that you only have one life , that you are the most important person in the world and that if you do n't take responsibility for your own development , who else will ? |
| 17 | Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time . |
| 18 | If you have sex with men for other reasons , it is important that the man wears a condom ( for vaginal and anal intercourse ) or that you only have non-penetrative sex . |
| 19 | It is also important that you always have safer sex ! |
| 20 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 21 | If children witness a quarrel , but then see that you still love each other , they will realise that a row is not the end of the world and will learn that it 's all right to fight — as long as we make up later . |
| 22 | While it is desirable that you too feel that way about it , it is essential that the person to whom you are delegating sees the task as valuable . |
| 23 | Sick pay and maternity pay from your employer are dealt with under the PAYE system anyway , so you automatically pay national insurance contributions on them . |
| 24 | And you may find treating the pain in the day means it 's not so bad at night so you actually get more sleep anyway . |
| 25 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 26 | So they 're , I do n't know whether it 's , i it 's terribly reactionary to say that we really want one teletext cos your holidays , might they be coming up on Ceefax |
| 27 | Miniaturisation enabled small nuclear artillery shells to be produced and that , in its turn , made way for the development of the theory that we now call flexible response . |
| 28 | It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level . |
| 29 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
| 30 | Peskibe continues to thrive , operational profits there are now well over a million a week and I think it 's worth remembering that one subscriber may have three subscriptions say to two movie channels and one sports channels and if you count these individually , it means that we now have four point nine million subscriptions achieved during the second worst recession , recession this century . |