Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 2 | The narrowest position is to say that rape is committed only where D threatens violence or knows that V is in fear of violence , and that any other threat must fall within the lesser offence of procuring sex by threats . |
| 3 | For one thing , Caldwell deals with cases where D has either recognized the risk or has failed to give any thought to it , whereas Morgan applies only where D has formed a distinct belief that the victim is consenting , a situation not explicitly covered by Caldwell . |
| 4 | Only where under-provision has resulted in really serious deficiencies is it likely that a librarian can argue successfully for extra funding to put the balance right . |
| 5 | In rural areas , especially where education has been hardest hit , they will be very hard to implement . |
| 6 | ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him . |
| 7 | So where pressure exists to reduce expenditure the reduction is most likely to be achieved . |
| 8 | In some cases it is also hard to measure scheme cost , eg where aid takes the form of tax concessions . |
| 9 | Only once Hilary admits to being seriously rattled . |
| 10 | So once Alan gets his er I |
| 11 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 12 | Now I know they 're absolutely outstanding vehicles , much better than Chrysler has ever done before . |
| 13 | Even so , tough or not , fungus attack is persistent , and the principle of prevention being better than cure means that we have to try to prevent the development and growth of spores into our roses by spreading a film of fungus-toxic material on leaf , shoot and other vulnerable parts — a contact killer — or , as we are now able to do for insects , we can render the sap stream and internal tissue poisonous to invading fungus by introducing a systemic fungicide . |
| 14 | You seem to have thought it out already , more so than Unesco has himself . |
| 15 | P. , B. and D. are together with one family , T. and A. were initially together although A. has since had to be moved to a small children 's home , and K. is with a third family . |
| 16 | The fine tradition of fund raising set by the guild had been continued by the branch , so much so that since October no less than £8,533 has been raised . |
| 17 | The deposit will be forfeited , and if less than 10% has been paid , there will usually be a clause in the contract providing for forfeiture of the full 10% . |
| 18 | He is the sort of person who can , or will find a way of doing it all if push comes to shove . |
| 19 | ‘ How long until Balliol returns , then ? ’ that man demanded , when he could make himself heard . |
| 20 | I 'll bring you a glass when we 've finished cooking — which should n't be long if Bailey has done as she was told . |
| 21 | Place freshly squeezed orange juice and rind , clear honey or syrup and alcohol in a large saucepan and heat gently until honey has dissolved . |
| 22 | Heat gently until sugar has dissolved . |
| 23 | Simmer gently until apple has softened . |
| 24 | Only until Robert gets established in his new practice , though when or where that will be we have n't the faintest idea . |
| 25 | Obviously if business goes really swimmingly then it may be easier to , I 'm not sure . |
| 26 | So obviously if Mike 's been chosen once or he 's done it he does n't want somebody asking him again . |
| 27 | I ai n't took them down cos Marie 's got plenty of pictures on her walls . |
| 28 | Bar-Hillel [ 1967 ] argues for the superiority of meaning postulates over semantic markers due to their ability to represent arguments of lexical items , which are essential for expressing the relation between the meanings of words like ’ buy ’ and ’ sell ’ : for any x , y , z ( x sells y to z if and only if z buys y from x ) |
| 29 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 30 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |