Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he has asked me to make it clear that he strongly supports the case that I seek to make . |
| 2 | He does note , in the letter to Zasulich , Morgan 's hope for a future society , which would abandon the obsession with private property , but at the same time he makes it clear that he rightly does not consider Morgan a socialist or a revolutionary . |
| 3 | It is not clear that she currently has any diplomatic status , though there is some evidence that the United Nations may still for some purposes recognise her ambassadorship . |
| 4 | The opinion makes clear that it also applies to ‘ defined-contribution ’ schemes , in which an employee makes payments into the scheme and gets a pension reflecting the returns on his or her cash . |
| 5 | Making it clear that it really does recognise that the only way to revitalise its languishing business units is to hire outsiders for some of the key positions , IBM Corp late Friday announced that as well as making its AdStar Inc storage unit a wholly-owned subsidiary , it had hired industry veteran Ed Zschau , System Industries Inc founder and one-term Republican representative , to be its chairman and chief executive — and an IBM vice-president , relegating the unit 's former general manager Ray AbuZayyad to the post of president and chief operating officer . |
| 6 | This usage is now so prevalent that it hardly conveys anything more than the best that could be imagined . |
| 7 | But the men themselves , who call it ‘ the muppet shop ’ , remain unconvinced that it really has anything to offer . |
| 8 | Indeed , he has subverted the stake-in-the-heart , garlic-and-cross myth and has become so popular that he now has his own New Orleans-based fanclub . |
| 9 | Some of the craters look so fresh that one almost expects the rocks still to be warm . |
| 10 | O'Connell says the company was proud to say that it had won Posix-compliance and it now hopes to gain X/Open 's XPG branding . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm interested if it actually exists , ’ he said . |
| 12 | like , she 's coloured right , but she 's a bit portly and she just smells to be quite honest ! |
| 13 | Everyone will be embarrassed and it rarely helps . |
| 14 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 15 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 16 | Under the legislation , which has Government backing , it will become an offence to carry a knife in public unless it specifically relates to work , religion or national costume . |
| 17 | The outcome is a proposed model of assessment which we believe is sound but which now needs to be interpreted and applied in the different single and multidisciplinary settings . |
| 18 | Which is interesting because he also tells me that his father expected him to follow him to Cambridge University . |
| 19 | The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to . |
| 20 | [ History ] is not rigorous because it always proceeds by faults and corrections , because it is not in any way a universal schema but a unique adventure that unfolds on the basis of prehistoric circumstances which constitute in themselves , and in relation to all the objectives and all the practices , a heavy and badly understood legacy of fundamental deviations . |
| 21 | Bridge-building is empty because it never happens , God-killing and god-making suicide is baffled because there is only a corpse to point at , there is nobody to attach a fulfilled ‘ free intention ’ to . |
| 22 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 23 | This all-embracing assumption is most improbable but it is justifiable since it never lets us down . |
| 24 | She did n't look quite as natty as she usually does ! |
| 25 | However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) . |
| 26 | It is hoped that the general reader will find this interesting as it certainly adds to the understanding of the fascinating discoveries described in the later chapters . |
| 27 | In my view the one disadvantage still to be overcome is that the receiver is not as waterproof as it really needs to be . |
| 28 | However , one of the main reasons Petrey gives for his admiration of speech act theory is its superiority to cognitive accounts , so it is odd that he never spells out where this superiority lies . |
| 29 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 30 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |