Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It probably matters little where we choose that point as long as it is not at infinity . |
| 2 | Over-use of such mediating devices is unwise , especially where they involve direct repetition . |
| 3 | Not only can this play hell with the smooth operation of a network , it can be a nightmare to troubleshoot , especially where you have long cable runs between machines . |
| 4 | These funerary items were nearly always painted by heraldic amateurs — signwriters , coachbuilders and so on — so although they provide useful clues they should not be regarded as authoritative , but of course the fact that they are not can also form part of the story the local historian has to tell . |
| 5 | Two members of the band posed with a laughing Mr Brooke , who said : ‘ I know them considerably better than I did 15 minutes ago , ’ — but he declined to offer a rendition of any of their songs . |
| 6 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 7 | He removed it before saying venomously , ‘ Well , I hope if they 're ever in Louise Butler 's position , they 're treated better than you treated that girl . |
| 8 | Drain the steak , reserving the marinade and thread a skewer through one strip of steak at 2.5cm/1in intervals , pushing the strip together so it forms concertina-like folds . |
| 9 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 10 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps if you spent less time lurking behind doors ? ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps if he followed one path , he would find a place where they came together ? |
| 13 | They will perhaps understand even better if they pay particular attention to the fine details of every movement . |
| 14 | The rest came from increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs . |
| 15 | Richard Armstrong has left to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh , and Richard Marshall has cut a deal that allows him to remain only until he finds another job . |
| 16 | I mean one of the problems with probation I think to a certain extent is that er obviously if you get these people who keep going into prison and coming out again , er it 's really pretty difficult to erm er influence their behaviour positively probably . |
| 17 | And then obviously if you have more weight in it they 'll be really bushy . |
| 18 | Obviously if you have any worries about undershooting you should not do this . |
| 19 | The 1944 Act was amended so that free milk was provided to pupils over the age of 7 only if they attended special schools or qualified on medical grounds . |
| 20 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
| 21 | The rules are inconsistent because , for example , pensioners are automatically exempt from prescription charges but will qualify for help with other charges only if they have low incomes . |
| 22 | Under the Fund 's ordinary facilities members may purchase additional foreign currencies , but only if they accept increasing restrictions upon their domestic policies . |
| 23 | Only if we like geriatric killers . |
| 24 | The consequences of erecting barriers — even if we could do that — to produce and use fuel at a price that we could achieve only if we erected those barriers would have a direct effect on the cost of power . |
| 25 | and er , she said she need n't of left them , but er only the last batch you got , only if you get twenty tapes |
| 26 | it 's only if you do English literature as well but I do n't . |
| 27 | Erm , cos otherwise it 's er it 's only if you have multiple applications running . |
| 28 | If only if I had that ability ! |
| 29 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 30 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |