Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there tasks in which children partly or wholly fail to understand the language which the teacher is using ? |
| 2 | Where better place to hold the country 's first Sunday jump meeting than Prestbury Park at Cheltenham … the home of National Hunt Racing . |
| 3 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 4 | The present tax system was too complicated ; people setting up in business on their own were more or less forced to employ an accountant . |
| 5 | He stayed at Dunvegan for eight nights , from Monday , 13 September , to the morning of Tuesday the 21st , and may even have outstayed his welcome ; Johnson more or less refused to leave the comfort of the castle and applauded the weather 's inclemency which kept him and his companions pinned down . |
| 6 | Too much nitrogen encourages an abundance of leaf tissue that is not balanced by enhanced root activity to support it , or enough potash to keep the plant structure hard . |
| 7 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 8 | Suppose , for example , that the police seek to remove a person 's clothing , or to take fingerprints when they are not authorised to do so , or persistently seek to question a person who makes it plain that he has no wish to answer , or seek to enter a house when they have no search warrant or a defective one . |
| 9 | The unsavoury bickering between Transvaal President Dr. Luis Luyt , the ANC and the SARFU over whether or not playing the anthem broke a formal agreement or not tended to cloud the issue . |
| 10 | Are you starting from scratch or just hoping to re-style an existing room ? |
| 11 | Eventually , however , those commanders still loyal tot he Shah ( or still hoping to resist the imposition of Islamic government ) produced a series of plans for a military take-over . |
| 12 | Few organizations however formally acknowledge it , or deliberately try to develop the coaching role . |
| 13 | Like most things in gliding this takes practice and experience if you are going to avoid losing a thousand feet or more trying to take the picture of your turning point . |
| 14 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |
| 15 | The principal offence , located at the time of field work in the Rivers ( Prevention of Pollution ) Act 1951 , s.2 , is committed if a person ‘ causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous , noxious or polluting matter … |
| 16 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 17 | In effect , a ‘ conspiracy of silence ’ still surrounds those northern Protestants who at various times and in their different ways condemned the landlord system , called for a wider franchise , disapproved of religious bigotry , or even sought to break the connection with Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ Suppose Edward does gain Berwick , my lords , and advances northwards — what then ? or even decides to leave the town untaken behind him , but surrounded , as he might ? ’ |
| 19 | Whether the employee makes a profit , or even decides to exercise the option , obviously depends on how the company 's share price performs . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the public inquiry commands the attention of large and powerful organisations which would like to disregard or even try to belittle the findings of an inspector 's report if it commented unfavourably on activities for which those organisations had responsibility . |
| 21 | The whole affair , however , was symptomatic of the consistent refusal of planning staffs to understand or even try to appreciate the potential of the SAS , encamped within easy striking distance of the enemy 's lines of communication . |
| 22 | Or even getting to see the T-shirts . |
| 23 | Sometimes volunteers alternate between normal and long sleeps ( lasting 16 rather than 8 hours , for example ) or even appear to adopt a sleep/wake cycle that lasts about 50 rather than 25 hours . |
| 24 | Marx believes that the individual is socially constructed but never provides or even attempts to provide the theory of knowledge which could support his claims . |
| 25 | If a student asks a question to which the tutor can not give a satisfactory answer on the spur of the moment , he/she should make no attempt to bluff but frankly admit ignorance , and , possibly with the help of the class , set to work to find out the answer , or else undertake to find the answer for the next class . |
| 26 | In the absence of a firm formula , the parties will either tie themselves to a fixed price for the duration of the agreement ( which is clearly usually undesirable ) or else have to provide an agreement with a shorter duration , but with an option of renewal if new prices can be agreed . |
| 27 | The camera can be preset or remotely controlled to cover the subject or area to be photographed , and provision made for a sequence of pictures or a single exposure , according to the camera type and its shutter release . |
| 28 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 29 | 1 The present House of Lords is seen as a wrecking chamber with a built-in Conservative majority and a crippling power of delay that only exists to put a brake on a reforming Socialist government . |
| 30 | It comes about simply through each gene being selected by virtue of its compatibility with the other genes that already happen to dominate the population . |