Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations dragging on where there is apparently little separating the two sides ( quite likely in the case of job evaluation where a five point difference in a grade boundary might represent hundreds of posts ) can lead to accusations of bad faith and a potentially dangerous deterioration in the general climate of industrial relations . |
| 2 | Well you either put one bar on or the lot is on or it 's very dim like this is low and you ca n't see it at all . |
| 3 | Obviously , there will be difficult cases , especially where there is perhaps a house or capital to be considered . |
| 4 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 5 | He himself , by his own self justifying account , was giving the President the facts and pointing out the alternatives ; North , speaking the language of military tactics , was for ‘ boxing him in so there 's only one way he can go — the right way . ’ |
| 6 | Basically that it 's there to be enjoyed and that it is only when you enjoy it that you play at your best — I always enjoy my cricket . |
| 7 | Like his [ sic ] colleagues in most developing countries , he is , to say the least , unprepared and unwilling to serve in rural areas and has to be forced to do so although he is fully aware that rural areas and people are most undeveloped and disadvantaged because of lack of human , material and financial resources .... |
| 8 | It takes my breath away , so although she is half asleep she gets in first : ‘ Did you get through ? ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , the situation changed so swiftly that there is almost no resemblance between the political maps of Spain for 1000 and 1050 , or again between those covering the times of the birth and death of El Cid . |
| 10 | It is true enough that there is often such a nuance ( see Quirk , Greenbaum , Leech , Svartvik , 1972 ) , but the proposal will not turn out to be satisfactory . |
| 11 | ‘ In my opinion the period from three to six is the most important and should be utilised much better than it is today . |
| 12 | It will be objected perhaps that it is too late in the day to try to re-establish our crumbling values on ‘ Be aware ’ , since the True is already sinking into the gulf which has swallowed the Beautiful and the Good . |
| 13 | But if this station youth centre is to continue , and I think personally that it is very important that it does , and that it develops . |
| 14 | It is tempting to think of it as a felt tendency , so that one is somehow aware of where the mind is going . |
| 15 | So that one is now full of fish too . |
| 16 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 17 | Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets . |
| 18 | A sine qua non of environmental traffic management here has been the reduction of through traffic by closing access from the Rhein Allee Within the treated area , the most radically changed streets have been repaved at a uniform level so that there is scarcely a distinction between pavement and carriageway ( Figure 6.40 ) . |
| 19 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 20 | Could you buy in quite a bit of fresh fish , say ten portions if you plan to have ten fish meals in a month , so that there is always good healthy protein food available as a base for a meal ? |
| 21 | At the time of X-ray , the dog 's ear is tattooed and the X-ray is marked with that tattoo number so that there is always proof of the dog 's soundness . |
| 22 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 23 | Val enjoys her work ; her husband , who is a milkman , is able to tie in his shifts with hers at the hospital so that there is always someone to look after the children . |
| 24 | Arrange things so that there is always someone in the building who is on call for machine problems . |
| 25 | The ebb and flow of the tide is concentrated in them , so that there is always sufficient scour to prevent their being silted up . |
| 26 | It is hoped , also , to establish personal contact between organisers and teachers so that there is always a clear and accurate picture of classes in any given area . |
| 27 | I 'm not saying that negotiations should be completed by a certain date , but that the matter should come back to court by a certain date so that there is therefore er er is a time , an incentive for the |
| 28 | The Heath Government appointed a Select Committee on the Corporation Tax and the subsequent Labour Government appointed one on a wealth tax , but both refused a permanent subcommittee on taxation so that there is still no mechanism by which the House of Commons can know about or participate in investigations of taxation problems or possible developments in policy . |
| 29 | If there is no gatevalve in this supply , the cold water cistern will have to be drained : turn off the supply or tie up the ballvalve ( so that there is still a supply to the kitchen tap ) and open the upstairs cold water taps . |
| 30 | The smelting process alters the chemical composition of the original ore so that there is usually no simple chemical correlation between ore and metal . |