Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the sort of procedure that Wimsatt had in mind when he said ( 1958 : 149 ) that ‘ poetry is that type of verbal structure where truth of reference or correspondence reaches a maximum degree of fusion with truth of coherence — or where external and internal relation are intimately mutual reflections ’ . |
| 2 | In cases where the dog is healthy or where surgical or medical intervention stand a good chance of success , most veterinary surgeons would try to dissuade the owner or offer rehoming . |
| 3 | Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning , then he 'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘ All gods are bastards ’ . |
| 4 | Swann ( 1987 ) has argued that as long as segregated provision exists , a means to select and allocate children will be needed . |
| 5 | First , Mr Deng was more committed to the power of the Communist Party and to party discipline , although he also understood that as long as basic stability and prosperity were ensured , the party should guide but not govern . |
| 6 | All individuals underwent endoscopy examination of the colon ( Olympus CF 2 HL ) under sedation ( midazolam , noramidopyrin , trimebutin ) , after colonic preparation with PEG 4000 ( 4 l ) and before anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressive therapy . |
| 7 | In some sense there is nothing new in this , as the question of obscene and indecent literature in libraries shows , but whereas obscene and indecent literature is a source of conflict between users and librarians , some of the new , vaguer areas of literary censorship will force librarians to be more cognizant of legal prosecution . |
| 8 | But whether serial or parallel processing turns out to be the way the brain works ( there will be more to say about this too in the next chapters ) , there will be cellular events associated with both the short-term and the long-term phase , and we have to try to distinguish between them experimentally . |
| 9 | Talking about Esmerelda , and what had happened to her , still brought on mini-fits and screams and total withdrawal for a while , but after long and patient questioning by my father and Diggs I let them know what I wanted them to think had happened — a big kite ; Esmerelda becoming entangled in the lines ; me trying to help her and the winch slipping out of my fingers ; desperate running ; then a blank . |
| 10 | Requests for help tend to centre upon children within the family but when financial or emotional disaster strikes the advice sought centres upon much more fundamental questions than progress in literacy or computation . |
| 11 | But when permissive or instructional therapy is needed , the interesting question is why people remain so ignorant about their bodies and potential sexuality when there are so many relevant books on the market , when sex education is provided in schools and when many glossy magazines promote the virtue and necessity of orgasm . |
| 12 | But as European and Japanese business turned their attention to the US market their relatively low wage costs allowed them to make substantial inroads . |
| 13 | Sex-blind treatment appeals to women 's self-respect , and is fine for those who have successfully seized new opportunities in education and the labour market , but as long as equal treatment extends only to paid work , it does not give proper recognition to the contribution and needs of most women . |
| 14 | If primary prevention is successful the number of new cases ( the incidence ) should reduce , while if secondary or tertiary prevention is successful then the prevalence rate should reduce . |
| 15 | These complex systems earned recurrent jibes at ‘ mathematical ’ music , as though medieval or Bachian polyphony were somehow spontaneous growths . |