Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked whether he would support a constitutional change in Scotland if he did not have proportional representation , he said no ; so he makes it clear that he gives higher priority to the self-interest of the Liberal Democrats and a voting system that would help them than to the issue of principle on Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 2 | Ford , however , has made it clear that it wants ultimate majority control of Jaguar — something which the company 's board , led by chairman Sir John Egan , is resisting fiercely . |
| 3 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |
| 4 | It is particularly interesting that he notes that science has come to hold , for some , the status of a religion : students of the arts , for example , might regard science as ‘ mystical ’ . |
| 5 | Our lads know this and it 's many months ago that they first trained their sights on success in Newry . ’ |
| 6 | The coat colour can be all white , blue , blue roan or pied and it owes this variety to the Shorthorn ; the ‘ blue ’ is the equivalent of the Shorthorn 's roan . |
| 7 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 8 | scale is not linear and it puts enormous weight on being alive and not much on whether you are active or working . |
| 9 | Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date . |
| 10 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 11 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 12 | The noticeable familial disruption occurring in other cases is particularly interesting because it reflects social role expectations of women , where the primary role traditionally is that of homemaker , family manager , and housewife ( Oakley , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | IBM says the Workstation One family obviates the need for this because it combines many features in one product with a common graphical interface . |
| 14 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |
| 15 | A simple unipolar drive circuit — so-called because it produces unidirectional currents suitable for use with a variable -reluctance type motor is discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 16 | Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol . |
| 17 | It is not clear whether it makes any difference if those words are omitted . |
| 18 | Sebastian de Ferranti , Basil 's brother and now a director of Ferranti 's competitor GEC , is a trustee of the interests but it is not clear whether he shares these views . |
| 19 | Of course it 's just possible that she has poor eyesight — a woman like that would be too vain to wear spectacles . |
| 20 | In a sense this is an extreme form of heterogeneous accretion of volatiles , though the separation of planetary accretion from the veneering by volatiles is so complete that it merits separate consideration . |
| 21 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 22 | It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway . |
| 23 | Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers . |
| 24 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 25 | Our Susan and Vera saga in Bewley 's is not that far-fetched and it replaces negative comment in many cases . |
| 26 | Except for drummer Simon Gilbert , who 's a screaming redhead , which is brilliantly ironic considering he says one thing throughout the entire two-hour interview . |
| 27 | Mr Cable should get his facts straight before he makes false allegations . |
| 28 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 29 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
| 30 | The market distrusts people businesses almost as much as it distrusts American companies with their main share listings in London . |