Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although present developments are seen as both quantitively and qualitively different , they too will pass : what will happen to the land on which housing is built ? |
| 2 | Backing all this up is a studio system that churns out ‘ stars ’ for Televisa 's bland pop-music programmes and melodramatic but successful soap operas ( which are watched as far away as China and Russia ) . |
| 3 | It has already been noted that as far as contracts of supply are concerned , required formalities are the exception . |
| 4 | Well what I 'm sugge , but as an alternative I 'm suggesting that as far as that 's concerned you put down |
| 5 | Some expensive mistakes may be made but less so as , with regular monitoring and evaluation . |
| 6 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 7 | We do n't have any suspects , but it has to be said that as far as I can see the people with the best motive were the five permanent residents of the club . ’ |
| 8 | It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed . |
| 9 | Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 10 | The original corrugated iron booking office ( and present shop ) is to be preserved but as soon as possible it will be rebuilt , using identical , sound materials and the interior will be adapted as offices . |
| 11 | It can be shown that as far as mechanical properties are concerned , where the elasticity tensor is of fourth rank , no terms higher than are required . |
| 12 | The new pathway students were not identified by tutors in the clinical clerkships , and unreported data collected by Dr Gordon Moore , who coordinated the introduction of the scheme , suggest that new pathway students tended to be assessed as rather better than those who had come through the traditional route . |
| 13 | In a sense that 's not the real question , that 's not the important question , the really important question as far as I 'm concerned is will I be served and as far as your concerned , will you or are you saved , well it 's , it 's up to you , it 's up to me because he will save you , forever who will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved . |
| 14 | the Trader shall be entitled at any time prior to commencement of transit to give seven days ' written notice to the Carrier requiring that the aforementioned £800 per tonne limit be increased but not so as to exceed the value of the Consignment and in the event of such notice being given the Trader shall within the said seven days agree with the Carrier an increase in the carriage charges in consideration of the said increased limit . |
| 15 | They feel that Shetlanders do not appreciate the sacrifices they are making : instead they suspect they are being regarded by Shetlanders as a nuisance not really to be welcomed and as far as possible to be ignored altogether . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe we have n't been playing as well recently as we did earlier in the season , but we are still getting the results . |
| 17 | In view of the points above , it is hardly surprising that none of these was rated as more than moderately effective , and only the advisory staff were rated as significantly better than ineffective . |
| 18 | So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that |
| 19 | The scent of human food was very strong in the Gruncher 's nostrils , and he must have been thinking that so long as he kept going flat out , he would catch his meal in the end . |
| 20 | The main points arising from this are that : ( 1 ) the vowel system is totally different from mainstream British English in terms of vowel-length , vowel-height , diphthongization and other properties ( for example , vowel-length is not usually contrastive , as it is alleged to be in RP , and so most vowel-phonemes , such as /e/ , as in gate , save , are realized as considerably longer or shorter allophones according to consonantal environment ) ; ( 2 ) allophones of phonemes can overlap phonetically with allophones of other phonemes in a manner that is not permitted by classical phoneme theory ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) ; ( 3 ) lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same vowel phoneme classes as they do in RP and SBE ( for example , whereas good and food have different vowels in most SBE , they have the same vowel in Ulster English ) ; and ( 4 ) many sets of lexical items exhibit vowel alternations , in that the vowels in these items are realizations of two different phonemes . |
| 21 | The same applies to the general deterrent argument : its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all , and , if it does , whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long , fixed-term sentence . |
| 22 | Two toddler-type swings are requested as it is felt that more often than not two small children are taken to the playing field accompanied either by one or two adults and the provision of two swings would prevent disputes . |
| 23 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 24 | So many different factors may be relevant that no generalized conclusions can be reached , and the best that librarians can do is to ensure that as far as possible conditions for use in their own libraries are adapted to meet what research has revealed as ideal conditions . |
| 25 | The usual way in which this duty is breached is for the employee to mention to customers that he is leaving and either directly or indirectly suggest to them that he is available to meet their needs once he has left . |
| 26 | Well well I I as I er as both myself and my wife understood it , everything had been paid and then obviously when we got the letter saying we owed this amount of money it did n't come to light till Mr and Mrs came to see you |
| 27 | In two modern cases , however , it has been held that so long as the donor has done all he needs to do , the beneficial interest passes from him to the donee . |
| 28 | It was late by the time the meal was done and later still when the company rose from the coffee cups in the drawing-room . |
| 29 | Separate day and night attendants for the lunatics were to be engaged as required , and the master was told that as far as possible fresh water should be provided for bathing each casual . |
| 30 | In 1700 only 7.5 per cent of industrial output other than woollens was exported and as late as 1831 only 7.7 per cent of output other than that of all textiles ( with cotton now well ahead of wool ) and of iron . |