Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paragraph 21 exposes a gap , pointing out that an innocent acquisition followed by a dishonest decision to keep or dispose of the property was in general not larceny and that larceny by finding was committed only where at the time of the finding the finder believed that the owner could be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 2 | So where in Ten Dudley Moore was merely menopausal , here Anthony Quinn is dead . |
| 3 | So where in God 's name is Crackbene ? ’ |
| 4 | Ten minutes and the back of an envelope is seldom enough except for the most gifted . |
| 5 | Only a total abolitionist , like Clark , Linzey , or Regan , opposed to any killing of animals for human purposes ( other perhaps than in self-defence ) , could have serious objections to it . |
| 6 | It follows from this that there has never been , and never could be , an empirical human society of other than miniscule size in which all the individuals were , even approximately , " equal " , other perhaps than in the theological sense of " equal before God " . |
| 7 | These purchase notice provisions are restricted to owner occupiers of houses and small businesses who can show that they have made reasonable attempts to sell their property but have found it impossible to do so except at a substantially depreciated price because of certain defined planning actions . |
| 8 | I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available . |
| 10 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 11 | This style allowed other-worldly figures to express themselves more naturally than in classical ballet where technical precision and command over conventional gesture were necessary . |
| 12 | This effect was greater for subjects reading aloud than for silent reading and larger again for subjects who were led to expect a test on what they had read . |
| 13 | This has resulted in siblings being born much closer together than in earlier time periods . |
| 14 | Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act much more happily together than in play |
| 15 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 16 | So although for the majority of cases that a fatal as a result of diphtheria the fact that , due actually to the pharyngitis and the pseudo- membrane obstructing the respiratory passage . |
| 17 | Network Southeast carries passengers three hundred and ninety million passengers a year , more than half the total for the whole of B R. So although off peak increases have been pegged at four percent , today 's announcement affects huge numbers of commuters . |
| 18 | So although in a liberal democracy it would seem practical and even suitable for the police to have a say in the way order is defined and maintained , as Foucault ( 1970 ) and Douglas ( 1987 ) have shown , this will inevitably take on an expansionist line ; for anything other than bland support of the proposals of the institution will present a challenge or pose a threat . |
| 19 | So although in a sense one 's moral judgements indicate simply one 's personal emotional response to a situation , in making one 's response stable by further enquiry into the details of a situation , and by further reflection , one is not only stabilising one 's own feelings but moving towards the way of feeling about the situation on which men in general would converge . |
| 20 | So although in Britain we have a national system of health care provision the way services have developed shows considerable variation between districts . |
| 21 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 22 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 23 | Does it even speak from some recognition , however disavowed , that police practices transgress the ‘ rules of civilized conduct ’ which they are supposed to be upholding , and nowhere more obviously than in their treatment of black people ? |
| 24 | ‘ KNOCK FOR KNOCK ’ AGREEMENT relating to claims arising out of accidents occurring anywhere in the world ( including claims where either insurance covers Third Party risks alone except under Clause 3 hereof ) under Policies ( the Agreement itself is NOT restricted to Motor Policies except where specified ) issued by the parties hereto in Great Britain the whole of Ireland the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man . |
| 25 | ’ ( The word ‘ alone ’ in this sentence is best glossed as : ‘ alone except for my parents , my sister , the servants , our dog , Caroline 's goat , and my regular visits from Alfred le Poittevin ’ . ) |
| 26 | Deborah works from a tiny office , alone except for one part-time secretary , and I wanted very much to talk about this tiny charity and her hopes for its growth . |
| 27 | The model including a recessive major locus gave a better fit than the model including an additive or a dominant locus , but the fit was not significantly better than for the multifactorial model with or without a generational difference . |
| 28 | Employment prospects were also at least as good and in some cases slightly better than for school leaver entrants . |
| 29 | Did you know that there is nothing they like better than to be starved ? |
| 30 | Yesterday he was testing with the team in Estoril where he said : ‘ There is nothing I would like better than to be back in Grand Prix racing . ’ |