Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I mean er I think one of the points we raised earlier is that there are , there are bits of information which we either assume or are missing so on that . |
| 2 | In some localities blastoids like this one break easily out of the enclosing matrix , or are weathered out in considerable numbers . |
| 3 | We have not yet concluded whether that work should be in the form suggested by Mr. Robert McNamara or be carried out in other ways . |
| 4 | Many were very small or were found only in certain districts . |
| 5 | Conglomeration meant that media companies diversified or were bought up by larger corporations whose media interests were only a part of their whole activity . |
| 6 | By the 1870's the entries had dwindled , or were missing altogether in some months . |
| 7 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 8 | Footstraps are on the board to stop your feet bouncing or being washed off in stronger winds . |
| 9 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 10 | Alas , the brief popularity of this idea could not survive the demonstration that long-term memories persisted even if the total electrical activity of the brain was disrupted , by epileptic fits or electroconvulsive shock , for instance , or was brought virtually to zero by coma or concussion . |
| 11 | On top of all this , you have the less obvious costs incurred by the denial of the use of your funds that are tied up in outstanding debts . |
| 12 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |
| 13 | The chief issues that are singled out in this debate are : that the growing proportion of retired people will impose a burden of increasing cost upon a shrinking population of working age in terms of pensions and services ; and the fact that a growing proportion of these will be very old and therefore more in need of medical and other care will make this burden more onerous still . |
| 14 | Man-made fibres can be split into two groups , those that are derived from natural sources but have been transformed by chemical treatment , and those that are made totally from chemical sources and are therefore synthetic . |
| 15 | Sexuality , he pontificated , was one of ‘ the areas of social life that are revealed only to medical men , in the hope that they may be in a position to suggest some mode of relief ’ . |
| 16 | Even chemicals that are broken down by different enzymes may ‘ compete ’ : some enzymes need substances known cofactors to help them do their work , so the two chemicals are ‘ competing ’ for cofactors , rather than for the enzymes themselves . |
| 17 | Such inferences are , by definition , conversational implicatures , where the term implicature is intended to contrast with terms like logical implication , entailment and logical consequence which are generally used to refer to inferences that are derived solely from logical or semantic content . |
| 18 | Now a new line of research is taking shape in the US to combat these and other toxic chemicals that are known collectively as chlorinated aromatic compounds . |
| 19 | No thanks , I 'm trying to give them up : at IBM Corp , writes the Wall Street Journal , RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp chief executive Louis Gerstner ‘ may find some eerie parallels between RJS 's chief product , cigarettes , and IBM 's leading product , mainframes — both are high profit margin products with slumping sales that are sold mostly to long-time customers who ca n't break the habit , ’ it says . |
| 20 | It was previously observed that CytR has a strong tendency to bind non-specifically to the DNA in gel retardation assays that are carried out in low ionic strength electrophoresis buffer ( 6 ) . |
| 21 | Remember that it is these kinds of tests that are carried out in conventional ( econometric ) tests of economic theories . |
| 22 | Polar stocks are generally assumed to have accumulated , and still be accumulating , adaptations that equip them for the polar environment ; endemic polar species , that are found only in polar regions , are assumed to be derived from temperate or subpolar stocks , via intermediate stages that no longer exist . |
| 23 | The salt has high levels of calcium to buffer the water and additional quantities of the elements that are used up by marine life . |
| 24 | The adult males move in larger home ranges that are superimposed spatially upon those of the females . |
| 25 | Organizations are thus conceived of as purposive social arrangements , as stable social groups with internally differentiated roles that are brought together for some purpose . |
| 26 | The Geology and Geography degrees contain complementary elements that are brought together in this course , designed for students interested in the Earth 's surface processes . |
| 27 | Refractory pouchitis therefore does not seem to reflect underlying Crohn 's disease , but may be linked to immunological mechanisms that are manifested clinically as extraintestinal complications . |
| 28 | Almost all the alternative possibilities that are opened up by possible answers to such questions have quite recently been supported , sometimes with great passion , by anthropologists of international renown . |
| 29 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |
| 30 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |