Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would predict that where a particular sibling is not willing or able to give support they are unlikely to receive it , except perhaps if they have given assistance in the past . |
| 2 | Less ambitiously , you might ask your employer to agree to repatriate you , together with your family and possessions , free of charge , if your job ends prematurely for any reason , except perhaps if you have been dismissed for misconduct . |
| 3 | Rather than so As I say you associate the car and the number together . |
| 4 | This method is designed to recognise profits as they accrue rather than only when they emerge as cash surpluses released from the life funds , as happens now . |
| 5 | If they have n't remained constant over our sampling period , right , then there 's no point in making our sample predictions , alright , we 've got to have at least the confidence that our model is re relatively stable over our small sample , right , in order to make any sort of predictions about the behaviour of the dependent variable that we are looking at and the parameter of interest out of sample more often than not when we have parameter instability that does n't always signal a change in government policy , it often signals the fact that you 've got a very poor model , a model er is mis-specified and so if we detect a structural change in our model , we first of all try and explain why it may come about |
| 6 | ‘ It is more important than ever that we manage to make that little extra effort and get into the top flight . |
| 7 | When time is restricted it is more important than ever that you have a routine of work . |
| 8 | ‘ It has helped me see more than ever that I compete for my country and always will . ’ |
| 9 | The face has always had a dialectical relationship to art and , today perhaps , this is stronger than ever as we view the face — in portraiture — with a scepticism characteristic of our age and as we witness the convergence of popular culture and fine art in so many spheres . |
| 10 | We are doing more functions than ever and we have also had a lot more visitors from America . ’ |
| 11 | There are more motor vehicles around than ever and you take your life in your hands just crossing the road … |
| 12 | As I said the er , the trolley buses were being phased out and the buses , the motor buses were being used more than ever and I do n't know the date of the last trolley bus running but I well remember it being reported time , it was the erm , bus was packed on its last journey from Electric House and people were photographing it . |
| 13 | ‘ Although now that you mention it , I can see where it would prove useful . |
| 14 | ‘ It could n't be warmer than there and you 've got chairs and the coffee machine . |
| 15 | It affected the Midland counties most of all , and it is here more than anywhere that we find the planned landscape of Georgian times . |
| 16 | Politically , the judicial conception of the public interest tends to embrace the promotion of certain views normally associated with the Conservative Party and there is a greater likelihood that Labour Governments will encounter challenges through the courts if only because they tend to be more interventionist and to challenge the status quo . |
| 17 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 18 | Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities . |
| 19 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 20 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 21 | These results do not require us to dispense with the idea of an internal body clock , if only because they appear very rarely in experiments lasting only a week or so . |
| 22 | You 've done a lot of the work for us , I 'm very appreciative to , of this , I 'm glad to say you have , in terms of sussing out what makes a good press release , if only because you 've found out what makes a bad press release . |
| 23 | Yes beginning , you know , we , we know what we 're trying to do obviously we do n't necessarily know every , every node in the network erm Cos obviously once you start doing that , or when we start doing tr the , the journey run things erm we 're going to need to know what we 're wanting . |
| 24 | We can not conclude with confidence whether pigeons have a map sense at all , and if so whether they use the sun or magnetic co-ordinates . |
| 25 | It seems to me clear that the answer has to be yes , provided only that we allow ourselves a sufficiently large series of Ks . |
| 26 | ‘ If not and you do n't shoot , what 's the point about it all . |
| 27 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
| 28 | so I said well it cost us just so many weeks though , I 've put it in again , I 've , I 'm sending it back today in the hope that they will come up with a decision in the next week , cos usually once they 've got the information they 'll write back say within ten days yes or no |
| 29 | Yeah , cos like if you 've got three Ss or something then you put one at the bottom of the pack and keep the card if you 've got an |
| 30 | That 's cos like if you get three hundred points you get a jacket . |