Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [verb] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The algorithm originally adopted was that a pixel was to be ON if more than five of the surrounding eight pixels were ON , OFF if fewer than three were ON , and not changed from its existing value if from three to five were ON . |
| 2 | However , what the 1984 statistics for the Division also show is that , of the 51.1% exempting degree or diploma holders , 22.4% qualified by the graduate entry or Direct Membership schemes , and only 26.5% entered by way of the Institution 's examinations . |
| 3 | For what the sonnet also reveals is that the truth of verse is not only ornamental addition , it is all there is . |
| 4 | The question principally debated was whether the duty had been validly imposed by the Sovereign though not consented to by the British Parliament or the local Assembly , and this question was answered in the negative . |
| 5 | The question now raised is whether , to protect the weapons programme , the scale of the accident at Windscale was covered up . |
| 6 | The question often raised is whether this education system is relevant to Zimbabwe 's needs . |
| 7 | What is certain is that , although a lot of ‘ experts ’ are ready to tell you what to do — and you may be the kind of gardener who merely wants a set of step-by-step instructions — the point entirely missing is that it is you , and only you , who has to use your judgement and make the decisions . |
| 8 | What the elder thus proclaims is that he has a ‘ hotline ’ to the ancestors , that they are on his side and , in effect , do his bidding . |
| 9 | The argument usually deployed is that the millionaire will benefit enormously , but there are very few millionaires . |
| 10 | But what the example also indicates is that Goody 's claims for the consequences of Greek literacy , for all the qualifications that he and Watt make , do lay themselves open to more general and misleading applications . |
| 11 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 12 | Let me tell you the word there spreading is that you have vowed to kill all everybody . |
| 13 | The examples commonly cited are whether antibiotics must be administered if the patient contracts pneumonia , or whether the patient must be resuscitated if he suffers heart failure . |
| 14 | The answer sometimes given is that murderers should be treated differently because they are particularly dangerous : anyone who chooses to kill once can choose to kill again . |
| 15 | The justification usually advanced is that the facts are rarely in dispute and that the judge who has witnessed the incident is the person best equipped to deal with it . |
| 16 | The reason sometimes given is that the defences of justification and fair comment are for the jury , which is the constitutional tribunal , and not for the judge . |
| 17 | The assumption usually made is that it should be the teachers in schools who review the curriculum . |
| 18 | The suggestion almost made is that , since knowledge is certain and faith is not knowledge , faith is uncertain . |
| 19 | ‘ What the documents conclusively reveal is that ministers asked the civil service to cost the Labour review using figures and interpretations provided by the Conservative Party . |
| 20 | What the advertisement really means is that anyone with an unwanted child can get rid of it , permanently , for fifteen pounds . ’ |
| 21 | The view most favoured is that it could , by the intervention of an official and by means of his coercion . |