Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the library context it should be possible to go further than the catalogue to establish relevance , i.e. , to go beyond the question put to the catalogue and include the user 's relevance judgements after examining the actual documents on the shelves . |
| 2 | It should be possible to see now that the tone-unit has a place in a range of phonological units that are in a hierarchical relationship : speech consists of a number of utterances ( the largest unit that we shall consider ) ; each utterance consists of one or more tone-units ; each tone-unit consists of one or more feet ; each foot consists of one or more syllables ; each syllable consists of one or more phonemes . |
| 3 | The upshot of this difficulty in finding simple conditions relating to subadditivity is that to establish empirically that an industry is a natural monopoly is by no means straightforward ( though see , for example , Evans and Heckman , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Yet how can we get a picture of the way in which it is possible to accept both that a task is done by rules ( for it is certainly not done randomly ) and yet the performer has no access whatever to the rules ? |
| 5 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 6 | As has consistently been the case , Paisley and other DUP politicians were prepared to go further than the Official Unionists and the provincial leadership of the Orange Order . |
| 7 | Pollitt , at the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern , was prepared to go further than the ILP . |
| 8 | It was interesting to find out that the work I was doing actually suited my 10K needs . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In any case it would be interesting to find out where the money 's coming from , ’ said Owen . |
| 10 | But security lighting is a different matter , as you 'll probably want a lot of light to come on when an intruder approaches . |
| 11 | Had she been making a genuine decision to refuse the treatment , it would be necessary in a case such as this to find out if the patient had received any advice as to the consequences of a refusal to accept treatment . |
| 12 | Statutory exemptions are provided in section 88 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and , inter alia , allow a person to drive without a licence or cause or permit another to do so if the driver has held or is entitled to obtain a licence for that class of vehicle and an application for such a licence has been received including in it the date he was driving . |
| 13 | Whilst , then , as the committee 's report states , ‘ it would not be the duty of counsel to cross-examine the defence witnesses or address the jury if he was of the view that it would not be proper to convict , ’ he would be free to do so if the prosecution view changed , perhaps after hearing the defendant 's evidence . |
| 14 | So it is arguable that the select committees promote independence of mind among MPs and make them less willing to vote automatically as the whips would like . |
| 15 | But Brooke-Rose is careful to point out that a novel is not an act of oral exchange , and that most communication models are thus inappropriate to it ( 1991a:70–1 ) . |
| 16 | IN THEIR rather cheerful new outlook for the world economy , published late last month , forecasters at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development were careful to point out that the risks of error were ‘ on the downside ’ . |
| 17 | However , the BRE is careful to point out that the table attributes types , not numbers of faults to the trades concerned . |
| 18 | Thus when Archbishop Corbridge preferred to obey the pope in a matter of patronage , he was told by the king 's judges that he was wrong to do so because the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , and that no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere contrary to crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 19 | Will the Minister confirm that he has no intention of taking meaningful action , but that he is afraid to say so because an election is coming up ? |
| 20 | These two species could really be described as ideal fish for the ornamental pond , being widely available , hardy , active and brightly coloured making them easy to see even if the pond water is slightly cloudy . |
| 21 | With the wisdom of hindsight , it is easy to see now that the Stag 's troublesome V8 , designed and inadequately developed in-house by Triumph before it merged with Leyland , should have been ditched and replaced by Rover 's proven ex-Buick 3.5-litre V8 ( still used by Land-Rover , Morgan , TVR and others ) that was already on the shelf . |
| 22 | The simple message is that traps are easy to create even when the object is to ameliorate the effects of one that already exists . |
| 23 | It 's easy to walk along and the views are unparalleled . |
| 24 | However , while it is possible to discount the efficiency consequences at low rates of tax , it becomes less and less easy to do so as the rates of tax get higher . |
| 25 | It was easy to forget sometimes that the rest of the universe , particularly the human part of it , did not operate on the basis of his own clear-cut standards . |
| 26 | It looked from my position that we could n't have much to argue about if the ref. had given a penalty . |
| 27 | With an above average climb in prices up to 1990 , the fall has been equally steep , but prices look set to hold up as the international status of sculpture rises |
| 28 | They only get in the way when you 're using a keyboard and anyway they 're easy to get off because the glue 's not up to much . |
| 29 | In fact , with the advance of telecommunications , it is easy to stay longer than a weekend and work from Bendinat . |
| 30 | First , to diagnose it correctly , second to locate exactly where the weakness in understanding is and third to do the necessary homework on it — that is to examine the matter to see what the truth of the situation is . |