Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price . |
| 2 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission may , under the Fair Trading Act 1973 , have referred to it by the Director of Fair Trading or a Minister for investigation and report whether a monopoly , as defined , is or is not against the public interest . |
| 3 | As a simple rule of thumb we could say that major differences in thermoregulation are determined by whether heat is derived solely from the environment , or is entirely internally generated , or is somewhere between the two . |
| 4 | In all we promise the publick to be as careful as possible not to lead them into mistakes , nor will we mention any particular tree , plant , flower or fruit which is not in our own garden … we do not propose to mention many different species of trees and plants that are either in the public Botanick Garden , nor that may be in the possession of some curious gentlemen , but only such as are actually in the nurseries of persons belonging to this Society and from where any Gentleman may be furnished with any of the particulars here treated of by directing their letters for the Society of Gardeners at Newhall 's Coffee House in Chelsea , Nr . |
| 5 | Although his love and understanding of much pertinently observed detail , he too often fails to energise the drama at key points , with tempi that are distinctly on the slow side . |
| 6 | In the present Chapter I have written of movements in theory in the present tense , whereas what is ideally required is something grammatically subtler — perhaps there are languages where it exists — like a special tense in which the present extends back to include actions or events that are already in the recent past . |
| 7 | However , once divisions are given some independence they may make decisions that are not in the best interests of the group as a whole . |
| 8 | He is playing Concertos that are not in the popular mainstream , and in the case of the Viola Concerto , not on his first instrument . |
| 9 | He formulated explicit definitions of ‘ necessity ’ and ‘ contingency ’ that are somewhat like the modern definitions of ‘ analytic ’ and ‘ synthetic ’ : ' The necessary is a possibility , the contradiction of which is impossible , but the contingent is a possibility , the contradiction of which is also possible . |
| 10 | So by mid-Silurian times the plates that are now in the northern hemisphere were again stable and low in relief . |
| 11 | Mr Major said the community charge , as he preferred to call it , had been replaced with a new property-based system which contained improvements that were never in the old rating system . |
| 12 | Perhaps , of all the models that were roughly like the real universe , only Friedmann 's would contain a big bang singularity . |
| 13 | Select a point A that is not on the straight line . |
| 14 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 15 | The figures show a modest slowing of growth — 12% in the quarter , 15% in the nine months , but the deceleration does not yet look serious , although the figures must include a contribution from the Interactive Systems Corp businesses bought by Sun that is not in the previous year 's figures . |
| 16 | I mean we 've still got a barren at the back , somebody kicks you at the back on that barren and er in the skeleton that 's exactly like the barren in a monkey 's tail |
| 17 | ‘ Anything that 's out of the ordinary , Maurice . |
| 18 | His father had died at somewhere called Duc Co that was somewhere in the Central Highlands in Vietnam . |
| 19 | So , back in England , they got rid of everything in their home that was n't in the new , modern style they wanted . |
| 20 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 21 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 22 | Erm you know , and these achievements , he 's not saying that you know re rev revolution 's the way forward , he 's actually saying look what 's happened before under the system that existed er previously , er well it actually existed , you know , at the time he was talking about , there does seem to be an effort by the peasants erm you know to , to improve their lot and therefore wha while he cites revolution in a way you , you can argue it is a bit strange because they seem to be , according to him , have improved their lot under the system that was there in the first place , erm |
| 23 | These modal ‘ tonalities ’ are a tritone apart , and are thus in the greatest possible conflict ; the result , however , is almost bland . |
| 24 | Four of the residences — Pozzo , Fonte , Sorgente and Ruscello have their own seating areas and are away from the main building . |
| 25 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 26 | Unless they are pre-mensile eyes you know , they sort of they come out , sort of go down together and be just above the actual eyelid . |
| 27 | Go out into town and be just like the other men , I 'm tired of monkeying around . |
| 28 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 29 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 30 | We continued climbing for a short while and were soon at the highest point of our walk . |