Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pop said , ‘ What about all those other people in the convoy , does n't the dear Lord care about them too ? ’ this worried the two ladies considerably , and I rather think after that they either thought that we were faithless , or became a little apprehensive themselves ! |
| 2 | Throughout the 1950s , '60s and '70s these restrictions were reduced or became a less important hindrance to the City 's international operations , but they remained partially effective until they were completely abolished in 1979 . |
| 3 | However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one : |
| 4 | Aimed at those who wish to start up and run their own small business or develop a recently started business . |
| 5 | Furthermore , as Moi suggests , she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own , or of the existence of female traditions and strengths which might have tended to challenge or subvert the supposedly monolithic nature of the male power which it is the main aim of her book to describe . |
| 6 | Can I now replace or modify the very rigid eleven leaf springs on the front ? |
| 7 | Occasionally a charge on a shield of arms , or the interpretation of a crest can be an important clue in the determination of seignorial affiliation , in linking two families with different names , or suggesting a hitherto unsuspected landholding , quite apart from the visual attraction an achievement might have as stained glass , stone carving or hatchment in the local church . |
| 8 | ‘ We will have to wait until next month before we can confirm or deny whether this is so or make a more informed assessment , ’ he said . |
| 9 | While Professor R. T. McKenzie was right to argue that the common purpose of winning elections and of maintaining a government in power imposes or produces an almost identical power structure in the parties , it is wrong to infer from this that the atmosphere within the parties is the same . |
| 10 | These included weekly visits to each fieldworker by a supervisor , who observed interviews , revisited compounds , and either conducted full re-interviews or checked a more limited set of information on a sample of recently completed interview forms . |
| 11 | Most students find cheques or cash the most convenient methods of payment , with bills settled ‘ on the spot ’ . |
| 12 | The first fella is a bit er I , I think is is very academic or has a very ac academic |
| 13 | It is assumed that the student already knows enough about chromatic harmony , or has a sufficiently enquiring mind , to take the leap over the abyss of atonality in his stride . |
| 14 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 15 | Common sense dictates that single items of food can not either cause or prevent a potentially life-threatening illness . |
| 16 | Nor need the doctor adopt palliative measures , if ‘ palliation ’ is taken to mean the use of measures aimed at modifying pathological processes or their consequences so as to delay or prevent the otherwise inevitable effects of such processes or their consequences . |
| 17 | Do not attempt to sweep or hook a solidly planted opponent . |
| 18 | This success was to tempt , and still tempts , thinkers to deny or underestimate the very different and novel processes which govern historic change and reduce the changes in human societies to the rules of biological evolution — with important political consequences and , sometimes , intentions ( ‘ social-Darwinism ’ ) . |
| 19 | Also , in controlled indexing language databases , there is often an assumption that a user will be prepared to chase strings of references or to consult a sometimes complex thesaurus . |
| 20 | During a jazzy quartet for the women , the company 's shambling clown is dangerously over-excited by one dancer 's leggy prowess , attempting to nuzzle up against her or to initiate a wildly mismatched pas de deux . |
| 21 | Because of the way in which my visit to the judges and the prison was arranged , I am quite confident that no ‘ set-piece ’ situations or activities had been organized just for my benefit or to create a more favourable impression of the judicial system or the detention centre . |
| 22 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 23 | Whether you 'd like to improve your existing bathroom or install a completely new one , careful planning is the key to creating an attractive and comfortable room . |
| 24 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |
| 25 | You should either select this option again to perform further updates to the module ( or to a different module ) or select a completely new option . |
| 26 | ‘ Madam , ’ I answered , ‘ I 'd love to row or sail a little every day . |
| 27 | Now Souness must decide whether to persist with England Under-21 youngster David James or recall the more experienced Mike Hooper , who has proved his excellent temperament in the European cauldron . |
| 28 | Add colour with roller blinds , atmosphere with Austrian blinds , or create an entirely different mood with cottagy patterned curtains . |
| 29 | The purchaser hopes that if ever a court considers any one level of protection to be unreasonable , it may sever this from the agreement and leave the other covenants untouched or impose a more reasonable amended form . |
| 30 | For example , a common method in the script recognition literature has been to use n-grams ( Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Ehrich and Koehler , 1975 ; Higgins and Whitrow , 1984 ; Whitrow and Higgins , 1987 ) , or letter transitional probabilities such as the Viterbi algorithm ( Hull , Srihari and Choudhari , 1983 ) , or Markov modelling ( Raviv , 1967 ; Neuhoff , 1975 ; Farag , 1979 ) to rule out illegal strings of letters , or to select the most likely letter combinations . |