Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail .
2 It will only be when you see the results of your actions that you realize how effective they have been .
3 And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays .
4 So the easiest thing really is obviously is if I get the thing sorted out and then , turn it
5 One reason why that will be so is that we have a coherent approach to Europe , not one that changes every weekend .
6 The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture .
7 That can not just be because they have a lot of flotations and rights issues to work on .
8 A third reason for being able to open your dog 's mouth easily is if it swallows a bone , or a ball becomes stuck here .
9 ‘ For the railway monopolies , it has always been that they wanted the data network modernised .
10 Gaily 's quiet defence had always been that he liked a certain monotony .
11 Has my right honourable friend had an opportunity to see the report from three I s , investors in industry , in which they have surveyed five hundred of the companies in which they invest and the confidence factor of those businesses is higher now than it 's ever been since they started the surveys in nineteen eighty eight .
12 In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but …
13 The problem with modernity , Enlightenment man 's home is that it masks the reality of his hopelessness from him .
14 There was a pause ; there almost always was when you asked a question of the Secret Intelligence Service .
15 Our preoccupation er straightforwardly is that we have a lottery which is run with probity and without impropriety , and the director general has very widespread powers , fact to investigate the backgrounds of any bidders .
16 The result will often be that he wins the race .
17 She would lose Patrick soon , she suddenly thought — all that was keeping him with her now was because she kept a very tight control of the purse strings : he had no money of his own .
18 Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east .
19 It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously .
20 The challenge that many of us face today is that we have a choice — whether or not we go out to work , how much domestic machinery we use , how much we involve the rest of the family in housework , whether or not we employ someone else to do the cleaning , how many take-away meals are put on the table , and so on .
21 The other issue arising here is whether you take the cost of the chairs out of the asset account and show them as an expense each time a sale is made or whether this is done at the end of the month .
22 The idea here is that you take a rather blunt er fire-polished glass pipette , and press it against a membrane .
23 The belief here is that anyone making a trade based on superior information is in effect ‘ stealing ’ from other market participants by acting before the information is made available to all traders .
24 Erm I I think the only time that people might have slept in here is if you had a visitor who had a lot of servants and there was simply nowhere else to put them .
25 An important tip here is if you see a nice piece of period architecture or carving which you fancy and buy , get it home and design around it .
26 I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers .
27 Certainly the reputation of the outer office then was that it conspired the way other offices make tea .
28 What is important however is that they practised a strict form of communism .
29 One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions .
30 What I did n't discover until recently was that it provides a bonus for organic gardeners .
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