Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limits set out below are as at 1 June 1993 . |
| 2 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 3 | This must obviously be because of MOD publicity restrictions . |
| 4 | he was n't going to let them go , I mean we were n't told any of that on the news , there was n't a word of that , it only be that from the papers that we 'd got |
| 5 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 6 | Now the other reason why of course you wo n't perhaps erm drive naturally is because of this little bit of tension at the fact that who 's this person sitting here looking at what I 'm doing ? and it it 's putting me off . |
| 7 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 8 | Just as the line between semantics and pragmatics is fuzzy , so is that between the indexical and symbolic meanings of deictic terms . |
| 9 | The reason why they did so was that in the case of man neoteny was an evolutionary trend largely in the service of ego and superego development . |
| 10 | The reason all this has not happened has not been because of technical problems but because there is no clear view of how government should a organized or controlled . |
| 11 | Any problems she has encountered have not been because of her gender , but because she has had older people working for her . |
| 12 | For the woman in our example , it might just be that in fact she has a very small frame and she should therefore be 8 st 2 lb. |
| 13 | The output comparisons have to take into account social , economic and political considerations : it may just be that in Rochester the residents prefer not to have to drag their refuse up the garden path , at any price . |
| 14 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 15 | It may not just be because of the reactions girls fear from their parents , but also because of the mental block they themselves create , illustrated in this chapter by Joanne . |
| 16 | Could it not be that during cleavage , when the egg divides up , each cell acquires special determinants , either cytoplasmic or nuclear , which would control the cell 's future development ? |
| 17 | It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’ |
| 18 | The crunch third , and last , reading will not be until after the second Danish referendum next May . |
| 19 | If I decided to play in it , it would not be because of $50,000 but because I felt better . |
| 20 | IF ENGLAND fail to win the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Cricket Trophy — the grand title ( which is accompanied by the unofficial suffix of ‘ Mini World Cup ’ ) presumably intended to persuade the public that they are about to witness something cosmic rather than just another one-day tournament — it will not be because of being under-prepared . |
| 21 | If the Tories lose , it will not be because of him , or the campaign . |
| 22 | Vivienne Peters , chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association , believes that Mercury 's reticence may not be because of problems with the trial , but because it wants to keep the plan under wraps in the fear that British Telecommunications Plc will try to steal its thunder by pre-launching a similar service . |
| 23 | At the same time , in a quite different direction , the ‘ arts ’ run through into areas of human thought and discourse — values , truths , ideas , observations , reports — where , though the ‘ aesthetic ’ perceptions may be still quite relevant , they can not be and in practice are not taken as wholly defining . |
| 24 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 25 | Consideration there must still be but in my judgment the courts nowadays should be more ready to find its existence so as to reflect the intention of the parties to the contract where the bargaining powers are not unequal and where the finding of consideration reflects the true intention of the parties . |
| 26 | A more exciting spin-off still is that by feeding the digitised information into a computer-guided lathe it is possible to carve reproductions of sculptures in a variety of materials , such as wood , plaster , glass or stone . |
| 27 | One reason why you should try to develop the direction in which you think the company should go from both ends of the company at once is that in the process you gain the commitment of those who will have to follow the direction — and ‘ make it happen ’ and in a free society you are unlikely to get this commitment without a high degree of involvement and understanding of both where the ultimate goal is , and the process by which the decisions regarding that goal have been reached . |
| 28 | ‘ I am confident I am just as good as I ever was and in some ways I am probably better than ever . |
| 29 | In the latter case external coercion is no longer internalized in the way it once was because of the permissive regimes of child-rearing and a cultural crisis affecting the superego , about which more will be said later . |
| 30 | First , the NHS is no longer as progressively financed as it once was because of the current regressive system of taxation . |