Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A universal set of features is an attractive idea , but the price one pays is that each feature has to do many jobs , and the meaning associated with it gets spread thinner and thinner , like a small amount of butter on a large amount of bread . |
| 2 | In other families the mother may be responsible for the discipline and management of the house and feel she can never have fun with the child and that father seems to have all the nice times . |
| 3 | What if some animal learns to do that to us ? |
| 4 | If any Government fails to meet either of these conditions then it will be replaced by another expected to meet both . |
| 5 | A community can tolerate much diversity — more than in Locke 's day when religious conformity was one requirement for full citizenship — but any society has to have some common rules and policies , whether it be in matters as trivial as which side of the road we drive on or as momentous as whether there is capital punishment . |
| 6 | Because this approach appears to generate some undesirable side-effects , this chapter concludes by arguing that closer attention should be given to more direct ways of influencing migration patterns . |
| 7 | Conversation immediately broke out again , while each lady tried to recollect all the MacLeans that she knew . |
| 8 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |