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 | ‘ It 's still a social stigma to be unemployed and employers wonder what you 've been doing . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But John Tholen , chairman of Darlington health authority , said : ‘ It is crucial that patients play their part . |
| 12 | John Tholen , chairman of Darlington health authority , said : ‘ It is crucial that patients play their part . |
| 13 | But it is so serious when children get it , and thousands of children have it … |
| 14 | His blood-soaked body was still warm when officers found it near the A30 road on Wednesday night . |
| 15 | Disposable society : So why do we still hear clamour from the environmentally conscious that plastics represent everything bad in our disposable society ? |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was generally agreed that republics were now much more likely than monarchies to use them ; and this belief seems to be borne out by the facts . |
| 24 | But even allowing for this , current users of credit cards were much more likely than non-users to say they are easy to understand and use , convenient and make shopping simple ; and more likely to say that they encourage people to spend too much . |
| 25 | Users of mail order were much more likely than non-users to say it is convenient for people who are not well off , easy to understand and use , and makes shopping simple . |
| 26 | What is clear from this , though , is that what we are talking about are conventions , and it is obvious that conventions derive their meaning from social contexts . |
| 27 | According to reports , large numbers were allocated to rural and border regions where conditions would be hard and opportunities to develop their talents scarce . |
| 28 | Most artists would be horrified if critics said their work was a load of rubbish , but Veronica Goslings would think it a compliment . |
| 29 | Nowadays there is a large sector which deals with far more high-powered recruitment , and men are as likely as women to find themselves seeking work through an agency . |
| 30 | Females are more prominent among the unemployed for two main reasons : they are disproportionately employed in seasonal work and , as there are now more economically active women than ever before , they are as likely as men to lose their jobs because of recession . |