Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In his letter of Aug. 14 Saddam had underlined his determination " not to keep any of Iraq 's potential outside the arena of the great duel " and it was widely believed that this implied either an intention to consolidate Iraqi gains in Kuwait or launch an attack against Saudi Arabia .
2 Things which affect the person as a whole are of much greater importance than those affecting only a part .
3 For it is prayer that enlivens our attitude towards the Bible , and that keeps open the channel of communication between ourselves and God .
4 I got my burns scraped and that hurts quite a lot .
5 And that sounds quite a Triumph .
6 And that sounds quite a Triumph .
7 Yes , they 're all trained in first aid , erm erm and in the use er we also carry the analgesic gas , now the ones that er nitric oxide which is used in er pregnant mothers for childbirth , they carry some of that now , er which they administer to people in pain and that takes away the pain erm for the time being anyway , until such time as you can extricate them or , or ease the pain or take away the problem away from them that 's causing them the pain .
8 There is a complete lack of understanding , and that goes right the way through the Health Service …
9 There will have to be fuller use even than now of the invaluable expertise and experience of the community and that means largely the business and industrial community …
10 For example , the NRA are talking about making buoyancy aids compulsory on the Thames and if that happens then the idea will spread elsewhere like wildfire .
11 We regularly have 200 worshippers singing with us and this requires quite a lot of volume from the band to lead effectively , but I never find it necessary to increase the master volume on the Marshall beyond half way .
12 Parents have ( or should have ) authority over their children and this constitutes both a responsibility and a burden .
13 Eliot has been careful to avoid any sort of sentimental religiosity , and this strengthens greatly the play 's climax .
14 If this sounds rather a lot it is worth noting that other word processors that offer similar facilities make similar demands of your hardware .
15 For example , after the initiating event the electrical power system might succeed in supplying the essential power needs , or it might fail ; if it succeeds then the ECCS might succeed or fail ; and if this fails , then the fission-product scrubbing system , which removes radioactive material that has been released into the reactor 's containment building , might succeed or fail ; finally if this fails then the containment , the ultimate barrier preventing fission products escaping into the environment , might succeed or fail .
16 If this transpires then the emergence of fairness really will have a substantial effect on the whole area of procedural due process .
17 And many sink now every year .
18 A meeting with the council is about to take place , and if all goes well the pool and performance bowl will be dug out and made skateable again .
19 Unions in Japan have had a major influence on the way the labour market is structured , but this reflects principally the fact that union membership is in large part confined to regular workers in large firms .
20 The most fundamental is the type of magma present since this influences both the type of eruption and the nature of the erupted material .
21 In market maker systems the time at which historic trades are published is of considerable importance , since this gives away the market maker 's position .
22 ‘ My name is Cara Kingsdale , ’ she smiled on , and , when that brought forth no response , she was left with nothing to do but press on .
23 This statement paved the way for and was indeed reiterated in Roberts in which the Court of Appeal held that consent had on the facts been terminated where there was a formal deed of separation , even though this lacked both a non-cohabitation and a non-molestation clause .
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