Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If British Rail is under pressure to increase the frequency of its service , there is a case for a coordinated transport system operating bus and rail services , If there is a need for transport when it is not convenient to run rail services , or if only a certain number of trains can run on a line because goods trains and passenger services can not operate at the same time — although perhaps British Rail should be more innovative in its mix of passenger and freight services perhaps it is a good idea for British Rail and the bus services — as they are today , not as they will be affected by the Bill — to get together . |
| 2 | But there was no choice — if we had stayed , or if only the civilian population had remained behind , the army would not have hesitated to massacre everyone . |
| 3 | If ( 7 ) is premultiplied by A , we have A(AX) = ( AX ) unc and AX is apparently an alternative solution for X. But since AX = X{gd} it is X postmultiplied by a diagonal matrix , as before , except that here the diagonal matrix is not arbitrary . |
| 4 | Effectively , it boiled down to a continuation in a certain sense of the original situation , except that now the primal father exercised his authority not in the social group , but within the ego — he became a psychological agency instead of being a physical reality . |
| 5 | One view of the system is that although formally an international agreement , it serves more to allow governments a way of countering internal pressures on trade than to regulate international trade relations . |
| 6 | In the 1920s , when von Frisch was carrying out similar experiments on honeybees to those he had done with fish , he noticed that although initially a lone bee came to his food dish , soon afterwards many bees came . |
| 7 | There was another problem that provided perhaps the harshest verdict on the government 's preparations — the drift-back to the danger areas . |
| 8 | Sachs argued that since only a limited amount of information can be stored verbatim in memory , normally only the most recently heard sentence is remembered word for word . |
| 9 | She reports that while only a small proportion of all eighteen-year-olds live independently , a majority of those reared in care have to do so , and these are often ill-prepared , have meagre financial help and currently have limited prospects of finding work . |
| 10 | The difference now was that while once the significant body of musicians had attempted — or affected — to snub those values , they now embraced them . |
| 11 | He knew that as yet the appropriate style eluded him . |
| 12 | She is due to travel to Ireland and England next week to publicise the book , although as yet no firm date has been confirmed . |
| 13 | And or perhaps a real sort of top hairdresser , they might have them they sometimes have bits and |
| 14 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 15 | Unlike the First Concerto , which in terms of its piano writing is completely honest , and where only the first movement 's double trills need to be re-arranged to become audible , the Second Concerto requires some adjustments in order to serve Brahms 's purpose , and not merely to make life easier for the pianist ! |
| 16 | Renton 's suggestion of a further review of its role stems from the feeling in his department that the present system is an administrative duplication , that it does not allow the Minister to determine the policy framework , and that whenever a major funding issue arises the government has in any case to be directly involved at present . |
| 17 | Certainly , once the Crown has been depersonalized to the point where it is synonymous with ‘ the government ’ , it is unnecessary and undesirable that coercive remedies designed to control government activity should not be available against the Crown which is the government , and that ultimately the only sanction for government compliance with the law should be political . |
| 18 | It seems clear that the principle that remedies are a matter for the courts of Member States and the principle of effective protection are , potentially at least , in conflict ; and that ultimately the legal system which creates a right must also control the way that right is protected . |
| 19 | They were valued on the basis of the quoted share price , but the shareholders argued that , since all the shares were being acquired , stock exchange prices were not a true criterion and that either the whole undertaking should be valued and the price thus determined apportioned among the shareholders , or the value should be the price which one buyer would give for the whole block , which price should then be similarly apportioned . |
| 20 | ‘ The petitioners remark that ‘ the Royal Veterinary College of London is the private property of the subscribers thereto who may continue or close the same at their discretion ; that it is only from their desire to advance the veterinary art that they have allowed their institution to be employed as a College of instruction ; and that thereby the veterinary profession in this country owes even its existence to their establishment ’ . |
| 21 | She said she was very impressed by staffing levels at the hospital and that even a local surgery had computer equipment . |
| 22 | She had to be one of the fastest production boats in the islands ; her twin big-block engines could hurl the three-ton wedge-shaped hull at over eighty miles an hour , and it worried neither McIllvanney nor Bellybutton that at such a speed a man could not hear himself scream and that even the smallest wave shook the bones right out of their flesh . |
| 23 | Even if the faults are apparent , a deaf person would be very wary of criticising for fear that the interpreter would no longer co-operate and that even the slim link to what is being discussed in hearing company will be taken away . |
| 24 | Mill , for all his apprehensions about public opinion and mass ignorance , never abandoned the basic democratic principle that as far as possible the people should govern themselves , and that therefore the ultimate objective had to be the maximum of direct , personal participation : |
| 25 | From Woolworths , we will hear that the Dixons management have brought their troubles on themselves , that their attempts to cope with the downturn have been lamentable and that only a new team — with a more analytical approach than the pile-it-high philosophy which did Dixons so proud when times were good — can engineer the necessary closure of small high street outlets in favour of a move to larger ones on the edge of town . |
| 26 | In the case of the incubator thesis , there is evidence ( certainly from London — Nicholson , Brinkley and Evans , 1981 ) that few sections of industry seek out inner-urban locations , and that only a small number of companies migrate outwards in the classical fashion . |
| 27 | Over 100 environmental groups , representing interests as diverse as the World Wide Fund for Nature , Earth First , the Women 's Environment Network and the ( N. American ) Algonquin Nation , agreed that present logging practises were wholly unsustainable , and that only a significant reduction in the consumption of pulp , paper and timber products would create conditions for a shift to sustainable forestry . |
| 28 | Suppose , for example , that each family has ( ) boys and ( ) girls , and that only the eldest son inherits ( primogeniture ) . |
| 29 | It recognises that sediment usually accumulates laterally rather than vertically and that almost every sedimentary body is therefore diachronous in human terms , though this diachronism is very rarely detectable in geological terms . |
| 30 | It is very difficult to predict what developments are likely in the future except for communities to realise more and more that this issue is very much part of the struggle for human rights and that perhaps the specific right to one 's mother tongue is something multilingual communities need to think about when they go to the ballot box . |