Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly so where tribunals have their own appellate tribunal . |
| 2 | I even carried out a double-bluff of appearing slightly guilty for the wrong reasons , so that adults told me I should n't blame myself because I had n't been able to warn Paul in time . |
| 3 | Sally Greengross , Age Concern 's director , said : ‘ We need legal reforms and clear , nationally agreed guidelines so that professionals know what to do about elder abuse . ’ |
| 4 | It provides links between businesses and students so that students know what the businesses need and the businesses know how they can influence the schools . |
| 5 | They may find it hard to adapt or compromise , so that others find them too rigid . |
| 6 | The managers could have improved motivation by printing target sheets or graphs of the store 's performance so that employees had something to aim for . |
| 7 | If you move outside City firms , it is far more difficult unless there has been a history of share schemes so that employees understand their value . ’ |
| 8 | He called on the industry to create minimum standards for design and construction so that developers knew what they would get for their money . |
| 9 | The constant trickling from various ‘ water features ’ — intended to drown the sound of the trains in Charing Cross station below — is having a bladder-bursting effect on visitors , so much so that clients have their own water-free waiting area . |
| 10 | While no one objects to him chasing the girls a bit ( the roads are safe enough and drivers know him and avoid him ) , he stays away for days on end and is obviously getting into scraps with other dogs — presumably male rivals who 've beaten the same path to the bitches ' doors ! |
| 11 | She left the towpath and advanced towards him , brushing her way through tall grasses , where bees buzzed somnolently and grasshoppers whirred their summer sounds . |
| 12 | Such an event can take place only if ministers allow themselves to become seriously out of touch with the opinions of their supporters . |
| 13 | Parkin asserts that only if women see themselves in non-family terms is stratification by gender meaningful , but he presents no evidence as to what women actually feel in relation to their family or class position . |
| 14 | The other alternative is to claim that the very constitution of individuals as intentional subjects serves to legitimate capitalist modes of production , for only if individuals perceive themselves as free agents will these alienating arrangements seem tolerable . |
| 15 | Nightingale rejected Mill 's criticism that her Notes on Nursing restricted women 's opportunities in the medical world by saying that feminism urged ‘ women to do all men do including the medical and other professions , merely because men do it , and without regard to whether this is the best women can do ’ . |
| 16 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 17 | That Reagan managed to escape public disgrace was probably only because Americans found it very hard so soon after Nixon to see another president fall from grace , since the presidency is the last moral totem pole the nation possesses . |
| 18 | It is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior . |
| 19 | The team says this is not so because administrators dislike them , or that they are hardly aware of them . |
| 20 | See so after men finished they would , there 'd be a steady turnround all the time . |
| 21 | Long before experts scratched their heads over the increase in teenage pregnancies , Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet demonstrated the essential hotheadedness , spontaneity and damn-the-consequences timeframes of teenagers . |
| 22 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's just inside the front door so when reps come they do n't interrupt the rest of the house . ’ |
| 24 | This kind of thinking has n't featured in election campaigning , so though friends warn me that I 'll be submerged in a great placid pool of meditation , I 'm off to Dartington to gather a few hints on the ideas that ought to guide our future . |
| 25 | Recent film aliens have been parodic reflections of the everyday absurdities of post-modern culture rather than attempts to imagine something genuinely other . |
| 26 | Milk was generally carried by passenger trains , but increasingly milk rather than passengers became their raison d'être . |
| 27 | Terry Betts said on the third day that he and his son had peaked too soon and errors put them four down after 13 holes , with the Piggotts to receive their second and final shot on the 14th . |
| 28 | When asked if he thought a ‘ level playing field ’ would ever be achieved Heseltine said that he thought change would take place , but not just because politicians wish it . |
| 29 | I do n't usually wait outside while women take their clothes off . ’ |
| 30 | Many women I spoke to hardly bothered with a Dupatta indoors while others told me in whispers that they wore it only because their mothers-in-law insisted . |