Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] 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 | Internally , money is spent only where it is needed . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | But he must work on his kicking in general , especially where he is trying to find touch . |
| 8 | However , unless the expert clause says so or it is agreed by the parties before the appointment is made , the expert need have no particular qualifications at all . |
| 9 | This is particularly so where it is felt that the consideration did not have a causative effect upon the authority 's determination and where the decision being impugned is not determinative of rights , such as a decision by a local authority to refer a landlord to a rent tribunal . |
| 10 | Pizazz Plus is a TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) program , so once it is loaded it will be there whenever it is needed . |
| 11 | The programme has never done better than it is doing now , it is going great guns . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
| 14 | Dr. John Whitcomb , professor of Theology and Old Testament at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake , Indiana , summed it up very well when on page 52 of his book ‘ The Early Earth ’ , he wrote , ‘ the testimony of an honest evolutionist could be expressed in terms of Hebrews 11:3 as follows , ‘ By faith , I , an evolutionist , understand that the worlds were not framed by the word of any god , so that what is seen has indeed been made out of previously existing and less complex visible things , by purely natural processes through billions of years ’ . ’ |
| 15 | In addition there is , as yet , no consensus of opinion among Keynes scholars over his treatment of the labour market so that what is presented here must be regarded as the personal view of the author . |
| 16 | It is also , very importantly , of two kinds : short term and long term ; so that what is recalled in the short term ( the classic example is a string of numbers ) may fade rapidly from the memory , while other elements of the communication , which are not so easy to recall immediately , stay in the mind long afterwards . |
| 17 | I want to question my belief , so that what is left after I have questioned it , will be even stronger . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 've discussed all the possibilities so that everyone is covered , ’ says Enya . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The name of the funeral director can then be kept in a safe place with other important documents , such as the Will , so that whoever is left to deal with the situation can contact the funeral director . |
| 22 | Er so that there is built into the constitution then , checks and controls on the president . |
| 23 | The middle phase is where this tolerance is progressively lost so that there is decreased control over use and over associated behaviour . |
| 24 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 25 | She then raises her hind legs so that she is crouching with her nose down and her back tilted . |
| 26 | In the absence of any agreement , or undertaking , then probably out of necessity the wife will have to pay for repairs , and explore the possibility when the trust comes to an end of applying to the court ( under " liberty to apply " ) for a variation of the division of the sale proceeds so that she is reimbursed . |
| 27 | Sheila admits that food additives are a great worry — so much so that she is investigating the possibility of growing her own exotic vegetables in a hothouse . |
| 28 | This piece of wood passes right through Turnbull , so that he is skewered . |
| 29 | They attempt to direct the ball ‘ close to the batsman ’ so that he is denied the room to swing the bat freely and hit the ball hard . |
| 30 | Holding the arms and hands still , the patient moves his seat sideways a little , then backwards and forwards , so that he is practising using his trunk without provoking any unwanted activity in his affected arm . |