Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Another important point in relation to Anderson 's infringement of the Co-operative Principle emerges from Anderson 's argument with the police captain , where he occasionally reveals too much about his conversation with Hollar .
2 To add 153 public houses to AW 's tied estate , a sector in which AW is currently under-represented in the North West , where it currently has only 187 public houses .
3 A substantial part of this firewood is brought in from the villages to be sold in the cities , although nobody really knows how much .
4 Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute .
5 Again , it 's a questin of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily .
6 Again , it 's a question of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily .
7 Under these tests , a country reserves the right to refuse an operating licence to a foreign firm if it deems that it already has enough similar companies on its territory .
8 It is tempting to dismiss Symphony as yesterday 's software on the grounds that it now looks very unexciting even as a DOS product .
9 We have merely aruged that such an existent necessarily belongs to only one such class , i.e. that it necessarily takes only one out of each pair of contradictory predicates .
10 The whole island is like one huge tropical greenhouse , with the added attraction that it never gets too hot — a nice steady seventy degrees . ’
11 After years of military rule , they know that it usually means just one thing : a military coup .
12 No man , even such a strong and determined minister as Duncan Sandys , can force Whitehall to accept more change than it collectively sees as reasonable .
13 But the jamboree could well turn into one of those parties where half the guests fail to turn up , and everyone else tries terribly hard to pretend that they are having a marvellous time .
14 That is , the student may improve his or her performance by 100 per cent , but if everyone else improves similarly this grade will be no higher than before .
15 If you take the SIL Field Methods Course you will be taught to file and process your language materials on a computer , which can save you from many tedious tasks and which often produces more accurate results .
16 Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to .
17 Rhines expects the Japanese consumer market to strengthen later this year , thus benefiting Texas , and he also expects more political pressure for increased market access .
18 A bacterium has a smaller information capacity than a human cell , by a factor of about 1,000 , and it probably uses nearly all of it : there is little room for parasites .
19 In addition , the branching ratio at the start is 64 , and it never falls below 57 .
20 However , such payments are themselves liable to tax and it therefore becomes very difficult to determine the level of such compensation .
21 Statistically these deaths largely occur as a result of the inhalation of vomit and alcoholic poisoning , and it therefore seems somewhat bizarre for the police to be in charge of those suffering in such a way .
22 Certainly in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries no other kadilik approached the status of those of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne — none appears to have attained even the status achieved by Damascus and Aleppo in the sixteenth century — and it therefore seems fairly certain that the 300 akce a day given to the kadis of the three Ottoman capitals represented the highest allowances given to any kadi at that period .
23 On the good side , the Lakewood amp is crammed with features and it essentially sounds really good .
24 And it usually works out more expensive .
25 The transfer of our central distribution operation to Brackmills , Northampton was completed successfully in October 1992 and it now handles almost 11,000 commodities .
26 So the argument goes , and it certainly looks more radical than the tired old tat of punk — yet it seems just as likely that there is an unconscious impulse to flaunt having in the faces of those who do not .
27 erm I found recently found a Bestway pattern book and this is one of the pa the war time patterns they produced which is sort of shell shaped squares for patchwork and it really looks very effective .
28 If it just smells vaguely marine , or like seafood , it 's O.K.
29 Cos it only takes about six week dun n it ?
30 cos it , cos it like takes up half the tape anyway
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