Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
| 2 | First , for each subject on each repetition we start with a data matrix of eight columns : g , a dummy taking the value 0 or 1 depending upon whether the subject did the experiment in a group or individually ; a , a dummy indicating the attempt number ( 1 or 2 ) ; t , the period number ; X t , the output chosen by that subject on that attempt and in that period ; p t , the proportion of ( post-production ) stock sold by that subject on that attempt and in that period ; P t , the output price in that period ; σ , the relevant standard deviation of the price distribution for that subject in that attempt ; and k , the relevant storage cost for that subject on that attempt . |
| 3 | Secondly , though the net price obtained by the owner of land should have been the same irrespective of whether the body to whom he sold it was private or public , some owners might have been unwilling to sell to the commission . |
| 4 | If th'guts 'd been griping and grinding like as if a corkscrew were twisting there , thee 'ud have done the same . |
| 5 | But the main point is this : that irrespective of whether an analysis is embarked upon from the position of an openly stated or tacitly assumed ontological bias , or whether , on the contrary , the question of an ultimate choice of basic ontological existents is deliberately left undecided , it is usually taken for granted that the concept of an ontological existent is in general well understood . |
| 6 | Those who do kick more do that because they ca n't run , and those who run will do that irrespective of whether the try is worth three , four or five points ’ . |
| 7 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |