Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still the fact remains that few women in television are seen as suitable to handle the major political interviews ; to chair important political debates or even be awarded the senior presenter 's job on News programmes — whatever the channel . |
| 2 | The sentence can only be assigned the right truth conditions , or alternatively be given the correct semantic representation , if the pragmatic significance of and in this sentential context ( namely the " and then " interpretation ) is taken into account before doing the semantics . |
| 3 | Prominent racing historian Reg Green said urgent action was needed to prevent the National that never was becoming the National without a future . |
| 4 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 5 | Many of them , however , were attending , or had left , grammar schools , and thus were entering the middle classes . |
| 6 | The hunters accepted , and thus were founded the famous White Lions of Chrace , so called because they were garbed in the furs of the white lion . |
| 7 | In 1935 the Committee moved to 35 Hills Road and then was given the large house next door — number 55 - by Jesus College . |
| 8 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |
| 9 | But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction . |