Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It matters little whether there is much evidence of individualism creating achievement or loss so long as it is believed that it does . |
| 2 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 3 | It is irrelevant to the Purchaser whether or not the Vendors know the warranties are right or wrong so long as they accept the risk . |
| 4 | Proposing ideas unfortunately provokes difficulties or objections more often than it wins support . |
| 5 | Finally , keep some pieces of tissue or rag nearby so that you can wipe your hands should they become covered in glue , egg white , or both ! |
| 6 | I remember that day very well because it was the first day that Mr. Andrew did n't come . " |
| 7 | FIVE condoms were sold for more than £80,000 yesterday even though they were well past their sell-by date . |
| 8 | He found that man more easily than he had anticipated , quite near at hand , indeed , having himself just completed his return charge and now wondering what to do next . |
| 9 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 10 | I would feel very happy that there was an under , under provision if I , if I refer to the agenda item twelve , where it says if I read it right that there is twenty three point six percent industrial floor space unoccupied at present and I would have thought it was crazy to start er erm coming up and building even more cos it will just put that figure up will it not ? |
| 11 | The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers . |
| 12 | If only Messrs Cook could guarantee a benefit to mind and manners as easily as they can guarantee a comfortable journey ! |
| 13 | It seemed to me richer and stranger than the pearls themselves had ever been — and richer and stranger still now that they had gone . |
| 14 | Look down on the trees , lakes and mountains far below as you soar through the air … . |
| 15 | But it 's no bad thing — we should take the two way traffic of actors and directors more seriously than we do . |
| 16 | You 're going to have to leave in the clothes you 're wearing , and ‘ t was damned wet and cold out there when I arrived earlier . ’ |
| 17 | I think I think er these days people take er take baths and showers quite often and you have to be pretty close to somebody before you smell them I guess , I mean I hope you do anyway . |
| 18 | ‘ Somewhere public , ’ she ventured acidly , ‘ where we can look at strangers who organise their lives and affairs more successfully than we 've done . ’ |
| 19 | Thinking in terms of interest defined as power , we think as he does , and as disinterested observers we understand his thoughts and actions perhaps better than he , the actor on the political scene , does himself . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ Even if it rained between now and October more heavily than it has ever done in recorded time there would still be rivers , such as the Ver in Hertfordshire , that would not get enough water to enable them to flow properly . |
| 21 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 22 | I set up another three Slammers , pouring the lime juice and tequila together so that I could cut mine to about half the strength I was giving them . |
| 23 | The forces of bourgeois society were opposed to slavery and serfdom not simply because they believed them to be economically undesirable , nor for moral reasons , but because they seemed incompatible with a market society based on the free pursuit of individual interest . |
| 24 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 25 | Joseph made it obligatory and made his wife and daughter crunch their way through apples and pears as devoutly as he would grind through grace . |
| 26 | They have not handed over the arguments to be articulated by lawyers and scientists even now that they have taken the city and the tannery to court in a law-suit claim for $31 million . |
| 27 | Aunt Sarah would be curled up on the sofa , in guernsey and old jeans , having chased Robin and Jenny out so that she could phone in peace . |
| 28 | And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see . |
| 29 | Inside , Virgin 's pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at Heathrow , in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the world 's busiest airport , but in real life Virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers , it blames B A. B A says it does n't allocate slots or monopolize Heathrow Airport . |
| 30 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |