Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For whether a difference is genetic is independent of whether the different types of animals concerned are or are not influenced by experience during development . |
| 2 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 3 | This means that people who have suffered or are currently suffering from schizophrenia need to be able to withdraw from arousing circumstances , but that the extreme understimulation which could sometimes be found in an old-fashioned mental hospital should equally be avoided . |
| 4 | More fragile sites often need to be roofed over or be completely enclosed in order to prevent their deterioration . |
| 5 | Most of the programs Carter proposed either were never passed or were drastically rewritten by Congress . ’ |
| 6 | That we could talk about having a breast removed or being badly damaged by surgery or our hair dropping out or whatever . ’ |
| 7 | One of the conditions held that ‘ where a youth or girl was being adequately cared for by foster parents or was satisfactorily settled in life with sound views and reliable character … then the Movement might and should reduce , or in some cases discontinue , its welfare work . ’ |
| 8 | This diversity accounts for the mutually contradictory complaints that are frequently voiced by village locals : that the newcomers come in and try to run everything or that they take no part in village life and are not ‘ involved ’ . |
| 9 | Finally , attention will focus on island communities in the developing world where land-use has created specific environmental problems that are frequently related to watershed abuse . |
| 10 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 11 | Strong promoters that are negatively regulated by repression factors tend to bind RNA polymerase far below maximal rates , the subsequent steps leading to the formation of an elongation complex being highly efficient . |
| 12 | Malvern-based chartered accountant Alan Kay is helping with a detailed investigation of the activities of certain copier companies that are widely criticised for malpractice , as well as the leasing companies that finance them . |
| 13 | The suggestions that follow are based on models that are widely used in management development and leadership training . |
| 14 | They include substance P and neurokinin A that are both derived from processing of the precursor polypeptides encoded by the preprotachykinin A gene ( PPT ) ( 2 ) . |
| 15 | Stone floor panels dating from 883–612BC , uncovered in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud , Balawat and Nineveh , contain patterns that are generally accepted as carpet designs ; thee are also a number of reliefs and carvings showing men carrying what can only be tapestries or rugs . |
| 16 | Thus , the sequence of momentary and isolated percepts is determined by what has directly preceded it and results in a fusion of newly perceived aspects with those that are already held in memory . |
| 17 | Among the developing nations that are worst affected by soil erosion are Mexico , Ethiopia and many more African states , as well as India , Pakistan and China ( see review in Brown and Wolf 1984 ) . |
| 18 | The figures give an idea of the industries that are most geared towards exporting . |
| 19 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 20 | Most such applications come from people who , because of physical disabilities that are mostly associated with age , can no longer cope in their homes as currently structured . |
| 21 | Against each group a preliminary choice of chemical is made based on chemical types that are also listed in chapter one . |
| 22 | We see nothing wrong in designing vehicles that are intended for motion but we feel it wrong to design ideas that are also intended for motion . |
| 23 | Some horses that are well fed on hay and grain all through the dry months of summer may never have a real glow of health until the spring grasses appear . |
| 24 | However , such progress as has been made is in areas that are well defined in advance — which , by definition is not usually the case in the are a of strategic decision making . |
| 25 | Even conventions that are well established in principle such as those relating to cabinet collective responsibility may be vague in their application . |
| 26 | I know there 's lads get eggs and butter and stuff from the farms , but everybody has n't got farms , and I could take you to some cottages that are well supplied with butter , sugar and cheese and what have you , that 's not from the farms . ’ |
| 27 | En route , however , these gases that are just passing through can in various ways be enormously influential , as we will see . |
| 28 | Section 66(4) defines these as accounting practices that are otherwise required by law ; in addition , ‘ proper practices ’ include those regarded as such by ‘ any generally recognised published code or otherwise ’ ( except that where a given practice conflicts with the law , it is of course the law that takes precedence ) . |
| 29 | In the case of United Kingdom hotels it is again the large diversified conglomerates that are heavily involved plus brewery groups ( Scottish and Newcastle , Vaux , Greenhall Whitley , Allied Lyons , Bass ) . |
| 30 | Small firms that are not registered for VAT naturally do not charge it . |