Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take no point on this except to say that normally ( and this case would probably have been no exception ) some documents and some items of information would be disclosable while privilege would be claimed in respect of others . |
| 2 | seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end . |
| 3 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 4 | Despite those difficulties , it is still easier than proving that the expert has made a " mistake " of sufficient gravity to invalidate the decision . |
| 5 | But what was easier than to assume that those who represented the stage of childhood or adolescence in the development of civilisation were themselves ‘ child-like ’ and had to be treated like children by their mature ‘ parents ’ ? |
| 6 | A two year study is to take place which will include the consideration of methods of killing that are more acceptable than stabbing or clubbing . |
| 7 | In the present study , cancer of the cardia was strongly associated with smoking whereas smoking and alcohol appeared to be negatively associated with antral tumours . |
| 8 | It is not clear whether paired or single nasal sacs and nostrils are primitive for craniates . |
| 9 | An animal does indeed strive instinctively to keep alive , much as it will forage for food ( plants in unconscious and less mobile ways do also ) , but , lacking language , it is unduly anthropomorphic to describe this as hoping or aspiring to live to a ripe old age ; except perhaps as a joke . |
| 10 | The circuit judge translated this as implying that the ‘ greater stress and pressure ’ of an arrest made a confession more likely . |
| 11 | They interpret this as showing that Beccaria , through his commitment to a social contract that accepted the necessity of the inequities and poverty resulting from private property , was forced to overlook these as much more plausible reasons for crime than his own . |
| 12 | Lord Wilberforce read this as meaning that the GLC could not exercise its powers ‘ unless and until ’ the LTE had carried out its duty . |
| 13 | I interpret this as meaning that Rey indicated any new tempo carefully enough if he needed to , but did not always beat throughout a given section . |
| 14 | We would not be so brave as to suggest that ‘ anyone ’ can build their own computer . |
| 15 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 16 | Hopes of securing the release of Western hostages with the help of Iranian mediation resurfaced after Rafsanjani was quoted on Sept. 12 as saying that Iran would " do whatever is possible " to help Pérez de Cuéllar negotiate an end to the hostage crisis . |
| 17 | Officials from the fifth chemical weapons inspection team [ see p. 38548 ] , which completed its mission on Nov. 5 , were reported on Nov. 12 as saying that they had found Scud missiles fitted with crudely made chemical warheads . |
| 18 | The Lutheran scholar Robert Jenson chastises Christian feminists for being so foolish as to think that the term ‘ Father ’ is being used univocally ( having the same connotations ) when used of human fathers and of God ; as though to imply that there is sexuality in God . |
| 19 | To those who see China in primarily economic terms , the ‘ golden goose ’ argument comes most easily : that its government would never be so foolish as to constrict or repress Hong Kong , the tiny territory which has proved such a powerful catalyst for the growth of its hinterland . |
| 20 | The seventh IAEA inspection team arrived in Baghdad on Oct. 11 , led by Demetrios Perricos , who was quoted in Baghdad on Oct. 22 as saying that the government had , for the first time , admitted research into nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | A French government spokesman was quoted on Sept. 30 as saying that France would not agree to supply any rocket technology unless India signed the Missile Technology Control Regime ( MTCR ) ; in May the USA had accused India of violating the MCTR agreement [ see pp. 38914 ; 39053 ] . |
| 22 | They are not , accordingly , as assertive as to wage and other claims as would be local workers , and their assertiveness is further tempered by the fact that they are not , with some progressive exceptions , voting and participating citizens . |
| 23 | She was evasive when asked if she still felt like killing herself . |
| 24 | This means managers have to be careful when considering whether to take on a new act . |
| 25 | The " clarification " followed a statement by Maurizio Zifferero , deputy Director-General of the IAEA and leader of the 14th nuclear inspection team [ for 13th nuclear inspection team see p. 39026 ] , who was quoted in Baghdad on Sept. 2 as saying that Iraq 's nuclear programme stood at " zero " following repeated UN inspections and allied bombing during the Gulf war . |
| 26 | She was only 21 years old when killed and had been extraordinarily dedicated to our cause . |
| 27 | The ice not so much broken as dynamited and blown out of the water , they were both giggling like kids out of school . |
| 28 | To suggest we should ignore such a sign is as irrational as saying that the blue-black line which appears on the gums due to chronic lead poisoning is of no significance because it does n't cause any pain or discomfort . |
| 29 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices . |
| 30 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |