Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This was probably very similar in the heterostracans except that here the tail lobe was scale covered , perhaps with some special scale rows aligned along the length of fin ( see above ) .
2 In the reverse direction a similar process is required , except that here the Macintosh architecture looks after most of the conversion for you ; Word reads MacWrite files automatically , for example .
3 Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are .
4 This too would have raised expenditure irrespective of whether or not a Speenhamland system existed .
5 However , as an illustration of the significance of the different approaches to public finance , we consider the recent debate in the UK about whether or not a poll tax ( ‘ community charge ’ ) should replace a system of domestic rates .
6 a shop steward ) is liable for unprivileged acts in the course of a trade dispute , whether or not a trade union is liable .
7 Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) .
8 In addition to the above elements , the King 's Fund also identified several other factors which determined whether or not a community care scheme would be successful .
9 In the case of a company director , it will be important to establish whether there are director 's loan-accounts and , if so , whether personal guarantees have been given ; whether , if there is a buy/sell agreement , key-person assurance has been arranged ; and whether or not a pension scheme is in force .
10 Ms Garner said : ‘ Whether or not a murder charge stands or is reduced to manslaughter depends entirely on the individual case .
11 In a doorway , wedged between a Guardian leader writer and a Kleinian analyst , Alan Headleand and his ex-tutor Otto Werner from the LSE were debating with a fine abstraction and a noble disregard of interruption the question as to whether or not a television programme was a primary product or a service , and whether , by implication or extension , Charles 's production company , Global Information Network ( Telex GIN ) was allied in ideological terms with the manufacturing or the service industries : with equal commitment Esther Breuer and Jules Griffin ( colleague of Liz Headleand ) were discussing the nature of ancestral voices in schizophrenic patients and in the Homeric and Biblical epic , and the portrayal of the Holy Ghost in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts .
12 People who are at risk from HIV by having ‘ unsafe sex ’ , should have a check-up for other sexually transmitted diseases whether or not an HIV antibody test is requested .
13 Rangers ' meeting with Marseille on 7 April in France will go a long way to deciding whether or not the Ibrox club should pencil in a Spring trip to Bavaria .
14 Rangers ' meeting with Marseille on 7 April in France will go a long way to deciding whether or not the Ibrox club should pencil in a Spring trip to Bavaria .
15 Disclosure in the scheme 's accounts is also required for all self-investments , whether or not the 5% limit is exceeded .
16 Under an indemnity , a person is liable on a pound for pound basis for any loss , whether or not the purchase price would actually have been reduced if that liability had been discovered prior to contract .
17 Whether or not the purchase price is an appropriate or indeed adequate upper limit is arguable but it is only in rare circumstances that a vendor will agree to a higher limit .
18 It shows to some extent the City was tied up with the erm issue of whether or not the structure plan should include a major exception to or indeed a strategic exception to policy .
19 But whether or not the Queen Mother is out of step with public opinion on divorce , she has made it clear no one will tell her how to behave .
20 Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible .
21 Whether or not the Camelford aluminium case is ever proved to have led to long-term damage to the health of people living in the area , it was certainly a major pollution incident .
22 Whether or not the peak age has gone from 15 to 18 — and specific categories of crime move either way — the average age is 18 .
23 At a distance of 150pc , the distance modulus is 5.9 magnitudes providing a lower limit to the absolute magnitude of the companion of about 16 whether or not the candidate star is the binary companion .
24 He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned .
25 With so many variable factors , it ought to be possible to provide a ‘ fit ’ to almost any curve ; the interesting point of the study is whether or not the scale factors put into the equations seem to be saying anything that would lead to an elucidation of the influences at work .
26 And when you come to things like whether or not the U N is going to th er U N actions in Bosnia at the moment , it 's the Security Council erm which is trying to take the decisions with the Secretary General of course in charge .
27 The event itself , one of the first to be conducted by the CNAA 's new IFS Board , was an archetype of the theatre of validation , with 120 people at one stage sitting in the Polytechnic boardroom discussing whether or not the course regulations met Principle 3 of the CNAA 's own regulations ( about the balance and nature of the course of study ) .
28 The idea of this is to enable the system to detect whether or not the bar code has been read the right way round , or in reverse .
29 In laying down the offences , s20 distinguishes according to whether or not the price indication was misleading when it was given .
30 Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US .
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