Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A demand will not , however , be set aside as irregular if the particulars of the debt as given are incorrect or even if the wrong form ( demand based on a debt not based upon a judgment ) is used , provided that the debtor understood perfectly well what debt was being demanded of him ( Re A Debtor ( No 190 of 1987 ) The Times , 21 May 1988 and Re A Debtor ( No 1 of 1978 ) The Times , 20 January 1989 ) . |
| 2 | Do n't start the proceedings until you are sure that the speakers themselves are present as well as the hosts or anyone else who will be thanked or mentioned in the speeches . |
| 3 | Comedy had always been anti-establishment but now if the Progressives were happy to see shyster lawyers , pompous and hypocritical capitalists , and venal politicians then so much the better . |
| 4 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 5 | There is in many societies a strong economic , political and psychic advantage in having male children , so the proposition of preventing any births , precludes that possibility , and those benefits are perceived to be real as soon as the ( male ) child is born . |
| 6 | ‘ If we can have a full house this time that will be great and even if the crowd does n't scare them , it will certainly lift us . ’ |
| 7 | It would have to be renewed as soon as the the nationalization was prepared to go , the government took over . |
| 8 | This should not be necessary as soon as the band plays in larger venues . |
| 9 | Family historians need to be aware that long after the Reformation people continued to observe the prohibited periods of Lent and Advent when arranging their wedding day . |
| 10 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 11 | Solutions of Einstein 's equation will be sought for sources that are nearly Newtonian , which means firstly that within the source the curvature and strain are small and secondly that the velocity v of the material within the source is very much less than c . |
| 12 | And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had . |
| 13 | Up to 1980 , there were two and before that a number of riverside cottages at different times were shops . |
| 14 | On Thursday we gave our first lecture to a wider audience , and were surprised that more than a hundred turned up . |
| 15 | I do not know how the RAF dealt with bed-wetters in the days of National Service , but I am certain that even although the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War , a persistent enuretic on board a warship would create even more serious problems than he could in an army barracks . |
| 16 | that can be used for actually doing , doing the recycling on each of those , and and I would like to say that that this , this report had been erm prepared jointly by officers of the Transportation Department who were responsible for the operational side and wi and the officers and regulation side of , of the Authority Planning Environment Department and therefore the comments in the air have been shared between erm both sides er what I would like to say is that as well as the recycling activities which are carried out in our household waste facilities of glass , paper , waste - oil , etc. , er there are we have in the last twelve months started two initiatives which I think will fall in into erm the , the first part - composting . |
| 17 | The body is normally able to control the balance of cholesterol , by producing more if the intake is low or less if the intake is increased . |
| 18 | In a hypothetical life-form with both hands of amino acid it is possible that rather than no helices being created , there would be helical molecules which were true mirror images of one another . |
| 19 | It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment . |
| 20 | They could say it is human as soon as the egg is fertilised . |
| 21 | The close correspondence between the τ and r results suggests that the deviation from interval scale is slight and hence that the effect on results may not be radical ( Siegal , 1956 ) . |
| 22 | It is extraordinary that even though the Government found an extra £40 million for sport in the last Budget , which is near enough double the expenditure on sport year on year , Opposition Members criticise us and suggest that we are not providing the necessary resources for sport . |
| 23 | A volunteer 's better than any than a pressed man is n't it ? |
| 24 | Texas Instruments Inc claims a 33MHz SuperSparc is equal or better than a 50MHz MIPS R4000 , and twice the stuff of a 50MHz 80486 . |
| 25 | All is well as long as the subject is lying down , but when he stands up , the reflexes which normally make arteries all over the body contract to meet the new hydrostatic conditions no longer operate effectively , and a sharp and dangerous fall of blood pressure follows . |
| 26 | It is notable that even when the young Rogers was inspired by the direct experience of discovering two moths in nearby woods , he turned immediately to books to find out about the life-cycle , and learn the lepidopterists ' terminology . |
| 27 | Insanitary conditions , and the concentration of people and rats in a limited area , made them vulnerable to attacks of plague , and it is noteworthy that even when the disease had ceased to be common in the country , it persisted in urban areas . |
| 28 | It could be argued that to a large extent such fears are unfounded or else that the difficulties have been overcome . |
| 29 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 30 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |