Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way little or nothing is revealed . |
| 2 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 3 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 4 | ( b ) The pressures on the police may be such that they will try to avoid keeping records especially where nothing is found or they feel that no request for a copy of the record will be made . |
| 5 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 6 | You should , therefore , make every attempt to be in the first row , going fast as the gun goes and , ideally , with a space to leeward so that no-one is making you pinch . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've discussed all the possibilities so that everyone is covered , ’ says Enya . |
| 8 | The computer keyboard also has its own memory and if the computer is busy doing something else or you type too fast , the last sequence of keystrokes ( usually 16 ) is remembered so that nothing is lost . |
| 9 | We are left with real problems of unemployment and all that goes with that with the drifting away of hospital care so that everything is centered outside the constituency ; with the drifting away of real jobs so that people have to move outside . |
| 10 | The dangled prospect of £30,000 is not much if one is trapped in the dole queue in an area where employment prospects are practically nil . |
| 11 | In the typical Western diet all the energy in protein is burned up daily and none is converted and stored as fat . |
| 12 | So if one is considering Free Range Egg production , knowledge and attention to detail at all times is vital . |
| 13 | In a large house with long corridors it is worth fitting extra alarms with an interconnect facility , so if one is triggered the others sound too . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I think it 's a very good idea , ’ she says , ‘ because one frowns when one concentrates , and it becomes habitual ; so if one is reminded about it , it helps . |
| 15 | So if somebody is offered premature retirement and they accept the offer , that form 's automatically sent to you you do n't actually need to apply . |
| 16 | So if someone is mugged , raped , or injured , it is because he or she believed it would happen . |
| 17 | If Patterson struts his stuff he 'll request a rider from Airborne just before eleven , so if anything is coming through it should be before eleven-fifteen . ’ |
| 18 | But in a stressed state , and especially if one is playing helpless , one can not see clearly what the opportunities and risks actually are , and one therefore can not act with discernment and intelligence . |
| 19 | But , if the entire republic is slowly being submerged , individual citizens can not afford to ignore their collective fate because , in the end , they all drown together if nothing is done ; and again , as with Venice , what needs to be done is far beyond the powers of any one individual . |
| 20 | Erm so unless anyone is sponsoring , they would n't necessarily have the treasure on their stand . |
| 21 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 22 | The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is posed with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 23 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 24 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 25 | Recent years have made teachers familiar with this strategy , and with the costs that are associated with it , especially when one is trying to negotiate with a fairly implacable demander . |
| 26 | Bud is also applied to a more developed eye as above , especially when one is implanted in a stem in the process of ‘ budding ’ . |
| 27 | yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car |
| 28 | How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters . |
| 29 | Two cultures rarely understand each other , especially when one is waxing dominant . |
| 30 | Stac Polly is an extraordinary mountain when seen from a distance and doubly so when one is engaged on the traverse of its narrow ridge . |