Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in these supposedly progressive times , you might be passed over for promotion or unkindly treated because of your sex or racial origins . |
| 2 | When someone says ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ I agree with him or not according as to whether I believe that it was the knave of hearts who stole them , not according as to whether I believe that he believes that it was the knave . |
| 3 | Beliefs are acceptable or not according as to whether they succeed in their goal of conforming to reality and receive credit or discredit for this by being called true or false . |
| 4 | The maintenance of the right of silence in police station interviews — the Commission 's own research showed that this right is little used and has little effect on the decision of the police whether or not to prosecute or on the outcome of the proceedings . |
| 5 | The oral shield may be rounded and triangular or distally lobed and like a blunt flattened arrow head . |
| 6 | Not to be trusted or even understood but to be treated with caution and sometimes indulged . |
| 7 | Some of Britain 's museums could fall into disrepair or even close because of a shortage of funds , according to a new report . |
| 8 | Signs of every one of these developments exist , but there is neither a clear trend nor much understanding as to what each entails . |
| 9 | Hobbes 's thought , in contrast , was both well known and widely regarded as in need of refutation on account of its low view of man . |
| 10 | The Government correctly understood and successfully argued that in most of the new areas of competence the approach should be largely intergovernmental — as was suggested by my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley ( Mr. Soames ) — thus introducing a greater element of flexibility into the future institutional arrangements of the Community . |
| 11 | The Board of Inquiry established that the engine had started to run roughly and eventually failed because of a broken camshaft on one of its banks of cylinders . |
| 12 | In general , as varies , varies and so changes because of the signal e.m.f. in the input circuit . |
| 13 | The Old English Pearmain , recorded in 1204 and so named because of its pear-like shape , was the main dessert apple until well into the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | One of the changes introduced since the consultation period on the SAS 's exposure draft , published in May 1992 , is a distinction between an inherent uncertainty which may be expected to be resolved at a future date and one which exists because evidence does or did exist but is not available to the auditors and so arises because of a limitation in the auditors ' work . |
| 15 | If they know their position with respect to the ends , then they can ‘ work out ’ which third they are in and so decide whether to be blue , white , or red . |
| 16 | In no other state was the influence of military attachés so great and so formalised as in Germany ; but in others it could on occasion be significant . |
| 17 | It is highly effective , highly professional and highly regarded and in no way would its organisational change mean that it was any less committed to or capable of working on the types of renewable energy mentioned by the hon. Gentleman from tidal to wave power . |
| 18 | Hauling in four feet of slack , and highly tense because of the unaccustomed big crag environment , I clawed across the remaining few feet to gain a sloping stance at the base of the imposing corner . |
| 19 | Though small , the working class in Latin America , because of higher levels of urbanisation and industrialisation , is relatively larger and better established than in most other Third World regions . |
| 20 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 21 | However , it remains to be seen whether in their place will arise a significant number of women who have married , divorced and not remarried and to whom society would wish to ascribe similar roles . |
| 22 | Impossible to say of the first move , it was her will , and not to extend that to what followed , or reason is gone mad . ’ |
| 23 | The situation where clients still need to telephone their local bureau just to make sure that it is actually open and not closed because of staff shortages , union meetings , staff training and the like could thus be avoided . |
| 24 | As far as beta blockade is concerned there are two approaches : one is the pragmatic approach , to prescribe it for everybody who can tolerate it , and not to investigate because of cost ( beta blockade is relatively cheap ) ; the other approach is to investigate all patients in the hope of giving focused therapy . |
| 25 | I suggest you have someone take a look at it who can tell you the exact problem and not speculate as to probable causes and costs . |
| 26 | City of London police said that partial closures meant Leadenhall Street and Cornhill were open to vehicles for access only and not used as through routes . |
| 27 | It was decided instead to select a few films from each of a number of categories ( i.e. types of driving situation ) and thus ensure that within each category there was enough similarity to create sufficient potential distractors for each target . |
| 28 | You g you could get down and just start and with the one hour the blower would go and knock you off . |
| 29 | And just say that in , in , in July , during July , this will be collected in July . |
| 30 | The common-room was large and comfortably furnished and at the far end included pool tables , dartboards and table tennis . |