Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practical terms this concern is relevant only where supervising and senior staff in the agency may learn about a pollution ; by definition these are cases which the agency regards as important , in particular , those which may have implications for the agency 's public reputation . |
| 2 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 3 | In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one . |
| 4 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 5 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 6 | Babyish even for nine year olds perhaps , but better than waiting until they are teenagers . |
| 7 | She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction . |
| 8 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 9 | Industrial production , he said , had grown by 5.5 per cent in 1989 , less than expected because of interrupted production in the second half of the year due to sabotage of power transmission lines to Maputo from South Africa . |
| 10 | Heat gently until melted and smooth . |
| 11 | Heat gently until melted and brush over raspberries . |
| 12 | Only if registered and paid up as road running clubs will they be able to elect officials on to the Road Running Commission . |
| 13 | So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ? |
| 14 | They are then more likely to withstand drought , especially if fed and watered properly . |
| 15 | That does not mean , however , that the McKinsey-GE grid approach has no value , especially if modified as indicated in figure 4.4 . |
| 16 | In autumn it glows like a beacon , especially if planted where it can be seen with the late sun shining through its leaves . |
| 17 | Bring to the boil , stirring constantly until thickened and clear then remove from the heat . |
| 18 | She instructed Lucien to be careful with his leg , and to exercise the rest of his body only while lying or sitting down for a while . |
| 19 | England 's chances of winning the Cornhill Test series all but disappeared when Akram became almost unplayable after tea with a ball that was 70 overs old . |
| 20 | The programme of work is now all but completed and the future of this initiative is under review . |
| 21 | Macca said in his column , that nobody knew about the deal until it was all but completed and said he was sure everyone at Leeds and the supporters would wish him great success at Blackburn . |
| 22 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 23 | The question , as one senior American diplomat says , is whether the Somalis are prepared for a UN trusteeship in all but name that may drag on towards the end of this century . |
| 24 | The minor disputes between the two countries , over reparations for damaged embassies in Tehran and London and some other outstanding debts , seemed all but settled and a group of MPs were visiting the Iranian capital . |
| 25 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 26 | Smaller ports such as Charlestown had all but disappeared but ports such as Methil 3m tons , Leith 2m tons , Burntisland 1.5m tons , Grangemouth 1.8m tons and Granton 0.8m tons had steadily increased . |
| 27 | In the last five years the UK colour TV industry has all but disappeared as firms from the Far East have taken over . |
| 28 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 29 | To make swifter unity on West German terms more attractive to East Germans , Mr Kohl has all but promised that their savings will be converted , over time , from Monopoly-money Ostmarks into rock-ribbed D-marks at the ridiculously unrealistic rate of 1:1 . |
| 30 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |