Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , Mr Crozier made it clear that even if the code were adopted by every borough , EHOs could continue to interpret the law according to individual situations . |
| 3 | It is also clear that even if the transport described on the face of the bill of lading is performed by one mode of transport only , notwithstanding the heading ‘ combined transport bill of lading , ’ the FIATA standard conditions apply . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |
| 6 | However , they are most unlikely to solve the problem of excessive delays , partly because the limits themselves are so generous and partly because the prosecution is free in any event to ask for additional time . |
| 7 | ‘ Their origin will , however , become clear as soon as the number of neutrons produced can be increased by increasing currents and temperatures . ’ |
| 8 | What do you consider to be the most formative experiences of your life so far , the painful as well as the good ? |
| 9 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 10 | Such differences may explain differences in content as well as the nature and distribution of power in British society . |
| 11 | In criticising the text-as-product view of cohesion in text , Morgan ( 1979 ) argues that we see a link between a particular pronoun and a full noun phrase in a text because we assume the text is coherent and not because the pronoun ‘ refers back ’ to the noun phrase . |
| 12 | So far as the finger-work or typesetting goes , she is as quick or quicker than a man ? — They say she is more deft and better adapted to it " ( a trade unionist ) . |
| 13 | This message is as relevant now as it was in 1940 and is more urgent than ever as the myth of material progress loses its power . |
| 14 | It is more likely that rather than an increase in potency level itself , the large number of succussions produce a lateral intensification or energising of the solution within the confines of the dilution factor — a concept upheld by the LM method . |
| 15 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |
| 16 | The chance that a random conglomeration of whale cells would swim , let alone swim as fast and efficiently as a whale actually does swim , is negligible . |
| 17 | Use of the section is purely optional and even if the company adopts it each member must be sent copies of the full accounts and reports if he wants to receive them . |
| 18 | No bread was eatable , for it was as cold and hard as a stone . ’ |
| 19 | They could say it is human as soon as the egg is fertilised . |
| 20 | In this sense , Labour 's respect for the constitution and its willingness to collaborate with an increasingly strong State against ‘ extremism ’ of the Left as well as the Right did not save Britain from fascism : it merely helped capital at the expense of the working class . |
| 21 | He was a founder member of the PASOK socialist movement , but his maverick style earned him enemies on the Left as well as the Right . |
| 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 | Darren has called the AA twice : once when the battery went flat and again when the distributor cap became soaked after the car was driven through flood water . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 26 | It would become redundant as soon as the meaning of certain words was made clear . |
| 27 | Such a legacy was hardly encouraging as far as the setting up of a free , unfettered press after independence was concerned . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ACTIVITY 3 5–10 mins Note down the points that strike you about this delivery system , the good as well as the bad . |
| 30 | Step IV " Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves " is the first of the steps involved in " cleaning house " and in learning to see one 's self as one really is — the good as well as the bad . |