Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items . |
| 2 | Townsend leads a team which shows only one change from the side that beat Lithuania 1-0 in Vilnius in June and that is only because centre half Paul McGrath is suspended . |
| 3 | But that flakiness and that is obviously when it was new he did n't let it dry out , he just painted |
| 4 | So the sum has to be one , times a half , is greater than two , which it clearly is n't , cos one times a half is a half , and that is less than two . |
| 5 | And that 's also because the channels have inactivated . |
| 6 | I think its very significant , here we are and lots of people have admitted to being a victim of crime but statistics show that twenty five per cent of women will be assaulted within a relationship and yet no women here has said that and that 's probably because the women who have been so assaulted feels somehow it is their own fault , its somehow shameful . |
| 7 | We get one or two people who perhaps get er psychosis or paranoia from using it very regularly , but most people seem to be able to use it without too many difficulties , er amphetamines are probably the next most common drug , and that 's probably because it 's manufactured quite locally , er it 's quite easy to make , it 's quite cheap , and it 's very popular , particularly among the younger age group . |
| 8 | Well , your average fees per term , ten years on , at current inflation rates … will stand at … five thousand a term , give or take , you see … and that 's just when he 's ten … course it 'll be double that by the time he 's seventeen … |
| 9 | And that 's basically that charges is it for |
| 10 | And that 's really because it 's it 's erm you know it 's for people under the age of of sixty . |
| 11 | And that 's purely and simply because they 're just not listening . |
| 12 | And that 's then when you put on the dollies on the top |
| 13 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |
| 14 | Where I have a little concern and that 's only 'cos I do n't know the of all of it , is that you are picking up , yes very minor non-conformances but in practice fairly large numbers in a fairly short time scale what I would be concerned about is when you get your B S I audit that these other areas that you have n't looked at have got equally this lack of attention to detail , that you end up with not only major break down in your system , but sufficient minor breakdowns in your system , to cause them to say that they wo n't give you registration . |
| 15 | And that 's only cos last twice I 've thinked of it . |
| 16 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 17 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 18 | And , and that 's only because her husband were on a promise from her . |
| 19 | Notice that an incoming elasticity is less than unity , and that 's less than one , as a result textiles , textile industry in the Netherlands is going to be a declining sector in the economy , right , as incomes er per capita G D P rises , the textile sector will benefit , alright , because , because human demand for textiles either they 're demanding proportionately less of any increases in incomes . |
| 20 | For example , in fifteen fifty seven/eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundred pounds to six hundred , and that 's entirely because they pulled in awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 21 | For example , in fifteen fifty-seven , eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundreds pounds to six hundred and that 's entirely because they pulled in an awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 22 | You will remember that when we last spoke you said the Ramsbum , Gooseneck business was impossible , and that was even before I had met my colleague Blitherdick , the wine waiter who had been on holiday when I arrived . |
| 23 | It was next , it was next to H & T Hornes and erm I , I think they used to do the casting there and then all the castings had to come into , for us to file and it was hard work but er there was erm a big bell to tell us when to stop work and that was outside and there was a big notice in the department , wait for the bell or |
| 24 | The contrary relation will therefore show up in a sentential context that specifies , or at least implies , that a single event is being referred to , such as I only met Mary once , and that was today/yesterday or ( somewhat less convincingly ) It was today/yesterday that I met Mary . |
| 25 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not sure what you mean , ’ she stated then , ‘ but you were most definitely hostile to me when you saw me the next day , and that was still before you knew I was a journalist . ’ |
| 27 | When we started here we only put in about £100,000 between four of us , to keep us going till the fees came in , and that was more than enough . |
| 28 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
| 29 | The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds . |
| 30 | It was the only time I felt slightly frightened and that was mainly because I 'd heard that a posterior labour could last a long time — even 24 hours . |