Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the situation Benjamin describes is too open , its constitutive relationships too direct and insufficiently mediated , Adorno 's net , by contrast , is so tightly drawn , its equations so perfect , its circle so complete , that any change , critique or differentiation of meaning or response is all but impossible . |
| 2 | Background binding of T cells to BSA or collagen was less than 3% . |
| 3 | In eight out of ten catchments the report 's authors calculated that the immediate cost of water treatment or blending was less than the ‘ local cost ’ of farming measures , but , once Exchequer savings from reduced agricultural production were included ( i.e. savings in public grants and subsidies paid to farmers to produce crops ) , in most cases it was cheaper to establish protection zones with curbs on farming than to treat the polluted water . |
| 4 | Some teachers will , of course , say when asked , " it did n't work " , but in a surprising number of cases this turns out to mean , not that the students ' learning or involvement was less than had been predicted or hoped for , but that the exercise for one reason or another was too difficult to set up . |
| 5 | If the guarantee or deposit is wholly or partly forfeited , or taken for the payment of fines or costs , you must repay the corresponding amount to us without delay . |
| 6 | So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on |
| 7 | Evaluation and change are logically and methodologically linked in a fundamental way . |
| 8 | Frequently , however , the generalisations are crude and misleading and antagonism is explicitly or implicitly present . |
| 9 | Every teenage fantasy , frustration and obsession is here as the naive youngsters exchange their drab existences for an alcohol-induced escapism . |
| 10 | Dr John Gauden , who had managed to hold the Deanery of Bocking successively as an Anglican and as a Presbyterian , secretly claimed that ‘ This book and figure was wholly and only my making and design ’ , and demanded his reward . |
| 11 | In the event , Leeds chose to play a rather strange formation in which McAllister operated at right-back and Speed was anywhere but where he is most effective , on the left flank . |
| 12 | Much of this complexity and unpredictability is precisely because the intersection between the material and the ideological occurs in the practices of living human beings : offenders , sentencers , employees of the penal system , politicians and members of the public . |
| 13 | But I do n't mind getting in in the family , but you I always remember , when David was growing up , he was about seventeen or eighteen , his friends came round , they were going out somewhere and grandma was there and she said to , er to us in front of erm David 's friends oh is n't he a pretty boy ! |
| 14 | Gaston and Mound are right that in taxonomy , as in science in general , the drive comes from individuals . |
| 15 | The consequences of corporate discretion in the field of research and development are worldwide and pervasive . |
| 16 | But the style and organisation was less than wonderful . |
| 17 | The celebrations of selflessness and sacrifice are much as they were in the wartime films , but this time there seems little point in asserting them , nothing to be argued for . |
| 18 | I believe that the Scriptures speak of God as Father , that Christ was incarnate as a male , that he chose men to be his apostles … not because of social conditioning , but because in the order of creation headship and authority is symbolically and fundamentally associated with maleness . |
| 19 | The heavyweight Sunday Times , Sunday Telegraph and Observer were more or less holding their own . |
| 20 | The Keynesian model we constructed in the last chapter was based on the assumption that both consumption and saving were directly and linearly related to current disposable income . |
| 21 | My mother and father were there and the doctor came up and said I would have to go into the Royal Marsden in Sutton to have a scan to find out whether the cancer had spread . |
| 22 | Creative drama and game are structurally and anthropologically very close . |
| 23 | Dounreay has apparently given AECL a quotation and AECL is now considering it . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 25 | Life had to go on and music was presumably as important to ordinary people trying to survive in Berlin as it was for the people who crowded into the National Gallery in London to hear Myra Hess 's lunchtime recitals . |
| 26 | The dramatic arts of masked dance and puppetry are also but thin excuses for shamanic possession . |
| 27 | At the very least , this raises some important questions for ego-psychology and indicates what Freud — but few others since — always knew , namely , that group- and ego-psychology are deeply and intimately intertwined . |
| 28 | Mr. Morgan : The Minister is right to say that the Department of Education and Science is formally and departmentally responsible . |
| 29 | The correlation does not hold in the case of marked themes as we shall see shortly , but , generally speaking , the distinction between theme and rheme is more or less identical to the traditional grammatical distinction between subject and predicate . |
| 30 | Yeah there was five women and dad was away and I was out at the fishing just for the night . |