Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [noun prp] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This showed him nothing except that Ross had been skilful in the way he had chosen to combine places with times . |
| 2 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 3 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 4 | And Mr. Marshall was very different from Ingard — where Ingard had been expansive , he was withdrawn , and where Ingard had been cocksure and flamboyant , he seemed almost nervous . |
| 5 | The US proposal followed an intelligence assessment indicating that President Saddam Hussein had strengthened his position internally since the introduction of sanctions and that Iraq had been able to rebuild its infrastructure , including suspected arms production , through trade with Jordan and the illicit use of foreign bank reserves and gold sales . |
| 6 | Ferrari argued that proper procedures had not been followed in Portugal and that Mansell had been unable to hear the instructions on his radio as he travelled at 170 mph past the pits . |
| 7 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 9 | And if Fosdyke had been popular , it 's strange that his funeral was so poorly attended . |
| 10 | This , Greisser said , was a breach of courtesy , and as Lester had been responsible , there would be no apology for the German reply . |
| 11 | But if Nathan had been difficult then , today he was virtually impossible . |