Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure .
2 The amount of discretion relative to the amount of prescribed action only increases as one moves to higher occupational strata , thus allowing the enlargement and fulfilment of personal needs .
3 The jurisdiction to quash a decision only exists when there has in fact been an error of law .
4 If " Jones is a man " is true , then , of course , it necessarily follows that something falls under the concept man , i.e. " For some x , x is a man " is true also .
5 But the worst happens and you reel from it , you stagger , the shock is enormous , and then you begin to recover .
6 Yeah i er , just depends when you wan na do it .
7 If the hon. Member for Livingston ever got into power , no doubt we would return to the longer waits that we experienced under the Labour Government .
8 I think he just dematerialises when he feels like it . ’
9 If there is one danger facing Armani , it 's that of becoming trapped in his own stereotype ; when the day finally comes that he tires of the simple suit and sensational jacket , the world may just insist that he keeps on making them .
10 Tory also makes the other common complaint that the novelist knows less than anyone else what is in fact going on around him — he wants to make a satisfactory pattern , and hardly cares if it corresponds to anything outside his mind .
11 It is therefore ironic that the report which it unreservedly endorses and which appears in the same issue should perpetuate the thinking I seek here to expose as muddled and erroneous .
12 Down below , Roger Beeding was beginning the traditional question-and-answer routine that always comes before you go into the morning service .
13 It also says that it has to be a ‘ national treasure under national legislation in the context of Article 36 of the Treaty ’ , thus by and large respecting each country 's right to define a national treasure as it pleases .
14 Having twin and matched secondary windings clearly makes a mains transformer very versatile , but it also means that you have to be rather more careful when wiring it up .
15 The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business .
16 Despite his opposition to romanticisation , the reference to deviance as being ‘ vital ’ clearly suggests that he sees as an established truth that deviance is , to some extent at least , a necessary and positive thing for society .
17 Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world .
18 His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area .
19 He is an intellectual man but since he has married , a woman who is quite the opposite of him , the reader often notices that he retreats to his library during the course of the book .
20 It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient .
21 What really happens when we look at a globe , or a painting ?
22 So what really happens as you go towards low temperature ?
23 There are so many colourful characters within the jazz spectrum and as a form it really demands that you get in touch with your own personal self ; if you do n't have your own sound in jazz then basically it 's nothing .
24 I 'd like to give you this which spells out clearly my status and what I can do for you , it simply states that I work for
25 A recent commentator , Martin Hollis , even fears that it leads to the ‘ social destruction of reality ’ ( Hollis 1982 : 83 ) .
26 The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ .
27 If this does not work ( and I do n't think you actually have to go to France ) , you might try the recipe of the American crime short story writer , Robert Twohy , who writes out a first sentence and then sees if anything comes from it , and so on .
28 The highest requires that we think of the international system as a set of norms or purposes which shape the process of history .
29 What then ensures that you keep within the confines of the crime novel ?
30 The book starts with the personal , and then shifts as it progresses to more interpersonal and organizational perspectives .
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