Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet every six months or so he found another excuse to get in touch with her . |
2 | There was nothing in the section or elsewhere which prohibited different courts on different occasions from making orders which in aggregate exceeded 240 hours , and there was nothing in Evans which conflicted with that conclusion . |
3 | The physical setting of a parish influenced not only the ways in which a family might farm their land or work at a particular craft but also such basic matters as whether they lived in a village , a hamlet or an isolated farmstead , whether or not they had valuable rights of common to go with their farms or cottages , and sometimes the type of tenure by which they held their land . |
4 | But whether or not they had sufficient power to exert real influence on state policy , the monarchs were justified in considering themselves the most important persons on the European political stage . |
5 | There scientists will discover the sex and age of the skeletons and whether or not they had any diseases . |
6 | People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events . |
7 | I do n't think she approved of such stunts , whether or not they made good television . |
8 | With no pause , almost before he had finished , Delia Sutherland was saying , while glancing openly now at her watch as though determining whether or not she had enough time to put him straight , ‘ No , no , no . |
9 | Whether or not she reported this condition to the divisional veterinary officer and showed him photographs , I do now know . |
10 | The servicemen were always very helpful in hauling one aboard , but I was not in uniform and I always felt they must be wondering whether or not I had any right to travel . |
11 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on its true construction section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 did not confer on a minor who had attained the age of 16 an absolute right to determine whether or not he received medical treatment but enabled him , for the limited purpose of protecting his medical practitioner from prosecution or from any claim in trespass , to give consent to such treatment as effectively as if he were an adult ; that , although a minor of any age who had sufficient maturity might consent to treatment , his refusal to give consent could not overrule consent given by the court ; that in exercising its inherent jurisdiction the court would take particular account of the minor 's wishes , the importance of which increased with his age and maturity , but would override them where his best interests so required ; and that , having regard to the nature of W. 's illness and to the serious deterioration in her condition , her best interests required the court to direct her immediate transfer to and treatment at the new unit without her consent ( post , pp. 765G — 766A , H — 767C , 768F–G , 769G–H , 770B–D , 772A–C , D–E , 774C–D , 775H — 776A , E–F , 777F–G , 779A , 780B–E , G–H , 781B–E , H — 782A ) . |
12 | He was the last of the brothers ; whether or not he had any part in their deaths he could be the key to a clearer understanding of the two who had died . |
13 | Not only did the non-working bourgeois become increasingly frequent — in Cologne the number of rentiers paying income tax grew from 162 in 1854 to almost 600 in 1874 — but how else except by spending was the successful bourgeois , whether or not he held political power as a class , to demonstrate his conquest ? |
14 | The judge did not , in terms , say whether or not he regarded this evidence as establishing undue influence as it is normally understood . |
15 | Mr Kinnock ran into a wall of derision when he declined to say whether or not he favoured proportional representation . |
16 | The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later . |
17 | Were were would you suggest that they have a lot of unresolved feelings about that , or maybe they had emotional scars because no-one was there to give them the kind of hope that might be available now ? |
18 | or how I liked two sugars in my tea , |
19 | or how you bested that Birmingham rep ? |
20 | ‘ I do n't know where , why or how he got that idea , ’ said 77-year-old Mr Hickman , recently honoured for 60 years of preaching . |
21 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
22 | Because when you were trained in those days you only had two children or otherwise you had another nanny if you had more . |
23 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
24 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
25 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
26 | And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her . |
27 | In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 . |
28 | That is obviously something which we 've just got to keep topping up but it was recognised by the fathers that will there was we needed to be helped to train to sell and so we needed that training er to get us get us going so to speak , there were no natural salesmen amongst departments . |
29 | And so they made two provisions which make the situation rather different . |
30 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |