Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument rests in part on the pervasive nature of deixis ( see Chapter 2 below ) in natural languages , for sentences like ( II ) are true or false only relative to contextual parameters , thanks to the fact that I , now and the tense of am are variables given specific values only on particular occasions of utterance ( i.e. ( II ) is true only when spoken by certain speakers , those who are sixty-three , or true of individuals only at certain times , when they are sixty-three ) : ( 11 ) I am now sixty-three years old These facts seem to establish that truth conditions must be assigned to utterances , i.e. sentences with their associated contexts of utterance , not to sentences alone ( or , if one likes , truth conditions include context conditions ) . |
| 2 | While many of these may be social occasions , work groups especially in large companies may often stay on late to participate in quality control circles or zero defect clubs . |
| 3 | No Norman king in England recruited his knights entirely by feudal service ; his army always had a substantial mercenary element in it . |
| 4 | If learning is localized in just one site in the cerebellar or the brain stem pathway , then a constant head velocity generates an eye velocity that ramps inexorably toward positive or negative infinity . |
| 5 | Leitzig led him through a succession of corridors until they reached an area marked STORAGE PONDS with a no-entry sign beside it and the words AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY in black paint underneath . |
| 6 | By 1939 Europe could meet her own needs of agricultural products only in olive oil and wine ; in 1880 she could still do much better than this . |
| 7 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |
| 8 | Moreover , since the inclusion of items whose delivery was not straightforward , and of items delivered to reserve ( the latter being given lower priority than direct deliveries to readers ) would distort the results , in all categories the delivery times only of straightforward deliveries to readers are discussed . |
| 9 | The argument that the European Union should form its own defence system alongside Nato suggests that the Member States are not capable of integrating their defences sufficiently through existing Nato structures . |
| 10 | Internally , the BLDSC counts the forms annually for statistical analyses , but makes no more detailed use of them . |
| 11 | As we have seen , the legitimizing institutions together with established and indeed aspiring subject groups share the vested interest in the belief that ‘ a scholarly discipline ’ is needed if a school subject is to be granted high status . |
| 12 | We will be dealing here mostly with the simple techniques of putting notes together in certain special ways , but in reality this is only part of the story . |
| 13 | ‘ During the spring Cry hopes to gather many thousands of signatures all over real Yorkshire in order to convince the Local Government Commission that Yorkshire people wish to see their county made whole again , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Barristers and solicitors together with certificated notaries ( who are normally also solicitors ) and licensed conveyancers enjoy a statutory monopoly which makes it an offence for any other persons to draw up or prepare documents connected with the transfer of title to property for payment . |
| 15 | Mrs Gould who I am happy to say is quite well has been fully occupied in making drawings of the soft parts of the birds together with appropriate plants flowers berries etc. which will be introduced into my work and I trust from the fund of information I shall be enabled to add that the book will not be void of interest especially to all lovers of ornithology … |
| 16 | However , we know of two firms who make similar dovecotes together with other garden ornaments : Roseney Farm Designs , Lanlivery , Bodmin , Cornwall ( Tel : 0208 872664 ) and Forsham Dovecotes , Goreside Farm , Great Chart , Ashford , Kent ( Tel : 0233–820 229 ) . |
| 17 | Even more importantly , they obviously lead to bad , poorly planned projects perhaps with inadequate or inappropriate equipment . |
| 18 | Eight per cent — more than a third of all shareowners — had investments only in privatised companies . |
| 19 | ‘ It has resulted in the realisation that you achieve improvements only by continuous training , ’ said general manager . |
| 20 | For the USA ( whose stock markets open roughly when the Helsinki Stock Exchange closes ) and the world index , there was a significant positive correlation with returns on FOX index futures only for lagged values of US and world index returns . |
| 21 | Listeners elsewhere in Scotland will be able to hear Radio nan Gaidheal 's evening programmes only on medium wave and in a later slot , as listeners have indicated that the present 6:15 to 7:30pm slot is too early and clashes with prime time Gaelic television . |
| 22 | The company is second in exports only to British Aerospace , which were worth £3.1bn last year . |
| 23 | The fish were fed three times daily with soaked flake , JMC catfish pellets , soaked , crushed Tetra Doromin , Waterlife Catfish Tablets , shredded shrimp , cucumber and scalded lettuce . |
| 24 | In some people ketamine has the potential for compulsive , repeated use ; cases of self administered injections several times daily over prolonged periods have been reported . |
| 25 | The most common of these forms together with other useful precedents are set out in Appendix C to this book . |
| 26 | English rolls of arms at this time contain a considerable number of coats borne by ‘ foreign ’ knights especially from northern France , the Low Countries and the Franco-imperial borderlands . |
| 27 | For example , we could , as an experiment , allocate similar child care cases randomly to different interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other . |
| 28 | But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours . |
| 29 | The Westernizers and Slavophiles who had hitherto been able to voice their opinions only with extreme caution embarked upon a deliberate policy of circulating handwritten memoranda . |
| 30 | Some people are very sound but can formulate opinions only after prolonged consideration . |