Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fundamentally important that these 12 Steps are actually worked rather than recited or merely thought to be nice in theory . |
| 2 | It is reasonable to assume that the carer 's preference provides some part of the causal explanation ; but it is also likely that the carers ’ preferences were influenced by the severity of the sufferer 's condition , and by whether long-term institutional care was expected , already planned , or already known to be unlikely . |
| 3 | The need is real , or certainly felt to be real , and the complaints are understandable . |
| 4 | Already Edward I had briefly confiscated the property of alien religious houses , and Edward II 's seizure of the Templars ' lands — neither acknowledged nor perhaps intended to be permanent — was strikingly similar to his father 's action in essence . |
| 5 | At erm that 's that big lighting is there on the basis that if the switch goes down we should have a number of telephones that still have to be available erm and we need to identify them suggested by a red telephone , or using a red telephone situated somewhere . |
| 6 | Mascarpone is the fresh cheese that really rebels against being low fat — it is virtually solidified cream . |
| 7 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 8 | Tithonus can see the normal human beings who can die and so longs to be one of them . |
| 9 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 10 | This empiricism , which is indeed preferable to paradigmatically unscientific excesses of speculation and the like , is nevertheless wholly inadequate , and generally accepted to be such . |
| 11 | They are exponents of free love , and generally seem to be promiscuous and ready to make love with everyone , including mothers , fathers , aunts , uncles , and children . |
| 12 | He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material . |
| 13 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 14 | Occasionally there will still be glimpses of the real person , pleading for help and desperately trying to be free . |
| 15 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 16 | The boy was offhand and always trying to be clever . |
| 17 | He took in that fact for the first time ; in spite of his knowing job , he had a clownish naîveté about fate and always tended to be innocent of the possibility of calamity . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ I like to make people laugh and always wanted to be able to do something for elderly and lonely people . ’ |
| 19 | Daley 's driven by success and always wants to be first to finish . |
| 20 | She laughed , partly amused at his fascination with the woman and partly relieved at being able to delay her decision . |
| 21 | The designers of this anti-twitch device look set to make a handy crust from anyone prepared to part with £75 and also prepared to be unworried by stares . |
| 22 | Note however that the assertion unc is certainly one which is meaningful — and also happens to be true ! |
| 23 | Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company . |
| 24 | He had fought the Japanese and also happened to be Communist . |
| 25 | Now this overround tends to be larger in fields with a large number of runners , and also tends to be larger in these popular races , so that at times when there 's lots of money around the bookies , of course , and we expect them to do this , are very careful to make sure that the odds are well in their favour , because on these races where there 's lots of money staked their risk is higher . |
| 26 | Like the populists , the pious Protestants were profoundly opposed to Irish nationalism and republicanism and hence tended to be aggressive in defence of the Union with Britain . |
| 27 | The point is that you do not in this ‘ original position ’ know how to be biased and hence have to be fair : justice in this context would have to be ‘ blind ’ . |
| 28 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |
| 29 | Armani shot down in flames those who thought the empire he founded in 1974 would die with the demise of the business half of his partnership ; he learnt fast and today manages to be all money , all business , without sacrificing the brilliant creative edge which has made him fashion 's greatest superstar for the past decade . |
| 30 | He was chased and bitten by a police dog and then arrested for being drunk and disorderly after he became abusive . |