Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ashdown will give warning tomorrow , in two television interviews and in his party 's last election broadcast , that an attempt by either Labour or Tories to go it alone in a hung Parliament would end in disaster . |
| 2 | When demand is high or prices increase there is a tendency to cultivate marginal areas , but when the economic situation reverses the opposite trend occurs and cultivation focuses on the most productive land . |
| 3 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 4 | But once you 're up and running it soon becomes clear that networks let you do a whole host of other things . |
| 5 | A preliminary exploratory questionnaire study made it clear that subjects find it very difficult to give accident figures unless they have some anchors for their estimates . |
| 6 | She did n't realize it was in the blood and not on the skin ; she did n't see there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves . |
| 7 | The Oracle clearly becomes very anxious about this and demands to know their business . |
| 8 | It is investigating any barriers to this and ways to overcome them . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's still a social stigma to be unemployed and employers wonder what you 've been doing . ’ |
| 10 | The job of central bankers would be easier if governments trimmed their budget deficits as soon as recovery was under way . |
| 11 | I am doing the firm no harm by tipping you off like this because Kovacs recommends you to buy a clock from them that will not simply tell you the time . |
| 12 | Had they checked with a knowledgeable nuclear physicist — and there were several in the nearby physics department who could have helped — or held a technical seminar before the press conference , they would have learned this before events overtook them . |
| 13 | It 's interesting when humans do something you do n't expect , but I wish he would n't interfere when I 'm trying to eat . |
| 14 | The word I have here glossed as " mankind " was Jinghpaw , which is the term by which the people known to the British as Kachins describe themselves . |
| 15 | The rather surprising introduction of a moral dimension to this apparently scientific debate does , however , render it ambiguous — an ambiguity which becomes even more manifest when scientists present their ideas to a wider audience . |
| 16 | To achieve their objective , they have to rely on the efficient working of the price mechanism such that prices give them the appropriate ‘ signals ’ . |
| 17 | But John Tholen , chairman of Darlington health authority , said : ‘ It is crucial that patients play their part . |
| 18 | John Tholen , chairman of Darlington health authority , said : ‘ It is crucial that patients play their part . |
| 19 | Girls do n't do it to boys as much as boys do it to girls though do they ? |
| 20 | In short , it has not changed as much as observers think it has . |
| 21 | But it is so serious when children get it , and thousands of children have it … |
| 22 | His blood-soaked body was still warm when officers found it near the A30 road on Wednesday night . |
| 23 | Disposable society : So why do we still hear clamour from the environmentally conscious that plastics represent everything bad in our disposable society ? |
| 24 | Asian women were more likely than others to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour ( 8/38 ( 21% ) v 141/1333 ( 11% ) , p<0.05 ) and epidural anaesthesia ( 13/34 ( 38% ) v 263/1326 ( 20% ) , p<0.01 ) . |
| 25 | Immature babies are even more likely than others to have their umbilical cords clamped and cut immediately after birth to allow resuscitation and transfer to neonatal intensive care . |
| 26 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
| 27 | How else can one explain why women are more likely than men to take their IBS symptoms to a doctor in western cultures , whereas the opposite is true in India ? |
| 28 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 29 | But in this connection it is worth noting here that we found women even more likely than men to say they would prefer to pay extra for credit insurance , against the risk of inability to repay : credit insurance is discussed in the section immediately following this . |
| 30 | Women were found to be more likely than men to poison themselves after receiving psychotropics , and patients aged between 15 and 29 years had the highest rates . |