Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If , therefore , the lexical meaning of the verb has any negative or hypothetical value then by that very fact the speaker wholly or conditionally withdraws any assurance that the adjectival property will hold factually . |
2 | If it is required to cytogenetically demonstrate the activity or otherwise of paternally or maternally derived X chromosomes in cells of fetal origin , the first requirement is to mark one of them so that it can be distinguished from the other one . |
3 | Individuals acclimatize to cold , for example , by adjusting physically , physiologically or psychologically following cold exposure . |
4 | ‘ I think , ’ I said , ‘ that we ( I was hopefully referring to others who might be recruited ) can do better than merely seeking charitable funds . ’ |
5 | It is the failure to do so that often makes such programmes both unrealistic and ineffective to participants both during and certainly after the event . |
6 | She learned quickly and eagerly and soon acquired sufficient know-how to join Anne Mowbray in the small schoolroom . |
7 | True the banks made hundreds of imprudent loans in the 1970s and early 1980s ; they could hardly get rid of their money fast enough and virtually begged Third World governments to take it off their hands . |
8 | The Board have made four suggestions of ways in which the landscape can be used better and so attract more people : |
9 | In a more romantic mode , it is as though a thousand lone voices have suddenly and unexpectedly found common cause in one majestic chorus , which is now drowning out the discordant notes heard from beyond the main stage . |
10 | The approach is primarily focused on helping patients resolve the crisis that has led to an overdose and on tackling their longer-term problems , largely using their own resources to do so and thereby developing greater ability to cope with stresses in future . |
11 | Beneath this the layer of ice was almost perfectly smooth , though occasionally an unseen force had pushed its plates together and upwards forming huge mountains amongst the hills and valleys . |
12 | Paul McCormack ( 23 ) was jailed for a year when he admitted culpably and recklessly throwing two trolleys on to the line from a railway bridge at Hope Street in Falkirk on April 13 last year . |
13 | For most gardeners the passing seasons each capture the imagination anew and also provide further inspiration and pleasure . |
14 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
15 | Like Mr Lyle at St Genevieve , Lord Valentine clearly wishes the people ‘ constantly and visibly to comprehend that Property is their protector and their friend ’ . |
16 | It is an institution which until recently my fellow countrymen valued so highly as willingly to pay any price needful for its preservation . |
17 | Rather than simply criticizing quantitative analysis as a whole , she adapts slightly the standard method of measuring linguistic variables , pointing out that the three variants of ( r ) which can be distinguished ( [ ? ] , [ ? ] and [ ? ] are difficult to place on any rationally motivated social continuum . |
18 | If developed countries want to reduce the waste that goes to landfill , rather than simply make green gestures , incineration with energy recovery is the best way to do it . |
19 | Even so , when handling and riding horses , we really need to be able to anticipate their emotions , actions and reactions , rather than simply expecting perfect behaviour and performance from them . |
20 | Rather than simply obtaining average values for the 40 junctions and correlating the averages , hence obscuring the variance in individual subjects ’ responses , the procedure described in Dunlap , Jones & Bittner ( 1983 ) was followed and average correlations were calculated . |
21 | Grappling with this problem , feminists who want to draw attention to women 's presence rather than simply adopting male titles have sometimes proposed completely novel words ( for instance Italian dottora , a feminine coining for ‘ doctor ’ that flouts the rules of Italian word-formation ) . |
22 | The generative system is able to operate on a sentential level rather than simply consider local word combinations . |
23 | The reason the market economy or catallaxy produces fresh wealth rather than simply redistributing existing wealth is critically bound up with the way in which market prices act as signals containing vital information . |
24 | The moral to be drawn from this is , let us apply the same committed and co-ordinated approach to deliver a Scottish parliament , which could tackle a whole range of problems , rather than simply showing piecemeal enthusiasm over a few issues like water and the poll tax . |
25 | The renewed interest in using literary texts as a means of inculcating the kind of critical competence which could comprehend rather than simply dismiss contemporary culture in all its complex manifestations , was one kind of response to this crisis . |
26 | Modern organization theory stresses that political and administrative elites must decentralize policy implementation into sub-organizations with their own problem zones , rather than simply expand central government departments into vast line agencies with direct control over all administration . |
27 | Lozanov emphasises that inputs on the two planes should support each other , rather than partially cancel each other out . |
28 | It takes a while to get used to the looks of the new car , but it is clear that Lotus is seeking to advance sports car design rather than just repeat past successes . |
29 | The most likely explanation for the difference is that the scid mutation affects the physiology of the thymocyte in a more general way rather than just preventing correct V(D)J recombination . |
30 | Rather than just putting these numbers into your I mean you will put these numbers into your calculator , but do it with that , leave leave your C R out of it and just keep it as T. |