Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 got that sorted he was speaking to Guy yesterday and apparently if after two days we do n't have certificates then I
2 The legislation is aimed principally at those who present or direct plays rather than at the person who actually performs them ; the latter commits an offence only if without reasonable excuse he performs otherwise than in accordance with the director 's instructions .
3 Widows ' pension is normally paid automatically once you have sent off your completed form BW1 , so if for any reason you do not receive it you should enquire at your local Social Security office .
4 So if for any reason I feel like adding on some points I will do , and equally I 'll decide to take some points off if I feel like it .
5 So if after five months you started paying it again , you 've got to pay the previous four months ' premiums .
6 So if in any way you 're different , if you 're black or if you 're short or if in any way you 're different , you 're fair game for the bullies perhaps ?
7 Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians .
8 In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik .
9 We have now changed our statistics to come into line with industrial practice and the recommendations of the Health and Safety Executive , by measuring incidents per 1,000,000 hours , [ rather than per 100,000 hours we used up to 1992 ] .
10 As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted .
11 He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs .
12 Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) .
13 Just as in real life they were assimilating a clinical attitude to human functions , many of which are taboo in Western society , their dreaming interpretations of their own sexuality were also in terms of a medical model .
14 Throughout his life Eliot brought the anguish of his difficult and divided nature to the surface of his poetry , just as in oblique form he analysed it in his prose .
15 C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains .
16 There are few other references to Drumcree in early documents and this is possibly because for certain periods it was absorbed in Kilmore .
17 Partly because of this relation it is possible to speak , as we have , of the circumstance as well as the cause as causing the effect or being the cause of the effect .
18 A teacher 's question is how to tap this latent knowledge , and ensure that pupils take enough care , both in speaking as intelligibly and clearly as in some sense they know how to , and in writing , with the constant aim of criticizing and making less ambiguous whatever they may write .
19 erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way .
20 Now because of other connections I 've done it through Eton .
21 Now as through this world I ramble ,
22 ‘ So my career had begun , even if at that stage I had no intention of prolonging it .
23 A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single .
24 From the start , the need to release immediately if for any reason they lose sight of the towplane must be impressed on the students .
25 If the cause or matter is properly characterised as criminal , it can not lose that character simply because at one stage it is carried forward by techniques which closely resemble those employed in civil matters , or which lead to relief often granted in civil matters , or which are available in civil or criminal matters alike ; any more than , having gained this new character by the employment of such techniques , it would revert to its former status when the deployment of the techniques came to an end .
26 His view was that Hollywood could never make such a picture ‘ simply because in all America you could hardly collect a hundred actors and put them in a picture and keep them from acting ’ .
27 It is interesting to trace the way in which the times of meals have changed over the centuries , particularly because in everyday life it is not just the clock which tells us which part of the day we are in but the meals that we eat .
28 One old lady recalls her days as a midwife many years ago when on one occasion she had to deliver a baby in an old farm cottage near the works .
29 The wild females apparently did not recognise , nor would have anything to do with , these artificially-produced ‘ mules ’ even though to human eyes they looked perfectly normal !
30 With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it .
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