Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 2 | Even he got a few of the good lines , none better than when a malingerer produced a succession of ‘ chits ’ excusing him one arduous duty after the other . |
| 3 | I did , in fact , feel better , certainly better than when the X-rays had been taken , and much better than the period immediately before that . |
| 4 | But work is a firm bonder , and never more so than when a task is both fascinating and absurdly difficult . |
| 5 | He 'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt . |
| 6 | His character was , however , memorably impassive — never more so than when the chokingly tearful Miss Bergman purrs , ‘ Oh , Victor , please do n't go to the underground meeting tonight . ’ |
| 7 | BRITISH painting has always had a tendency to look in upon itself , but never more so than when the Napoleonic wars rendered travel on the Continent impossible . |
| 8 | Er now unfortunately I 'm away next week , so if if the message does n't get to me before I 've gone , it 'll be the week after that I then get back to Mrs . |
| 9 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 10 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 11 | However in the past the courts have tended to interpret them strictly , perhaps because if the time limit is not complied with liability is wholly excluded . |
| 12 | It had been a hard morning 's work , with little reward apparently because while an awful lot had passed the lips , it had n't gone any further . |
| 13 | The banks too must get involved and everyone needs to work together because if the marriage proves to be a barren one it will affect the wealth of the nation for generations to come . |
| 14 | My slide shows did go down reasonably well , if only because while the lights were out , they had the chance to change places under cover of darkness in the hope of confusing you know who . |
| 15 | It was not so long since that the fashionable had discarded their wigs and taken to cultivating natural heads . |
| 16 | She stood for a moment staring round at the flickering shadows thrown by the lone candle , the fire had died long since and the room was cold and suddenly lonely . |
| 17 | There was no light apart from a guttering candle , because the war had ended only a month or so before and the electricity supply had not been restored . |
| 18 | You should consider whether this is really what you want to do , or whether it is because you have never been on holiday alone before and the thought of it makes you nervous . |
| 19 | It was suddenly as though the passion had been drained from her , her juices drying up like a desert stream in summer . |
| 20 | As the traveller in jelly walked in to take his seat , head down as though the floor were a road map , something pink was in evidence under his nose . |
| 21 | Dalziel clapped his hands together as though a tricky point had been made simple . |
| 22 | Though I really can not imagine , thought Liz , as she turned away , rubbing her hands together as though the cold had truly bitten her , as though the Ice Queen had truly touched her , why we continue to ask her round . |
| 23 | The advantage of using the computer is that the answers are confirmed immediately rather than after the whole passage has been completed . |
| 24 | If the objective of a democratic legislature is to inform the public about issues , to let them know what pressure groups are saying and to allow the civil service to assess public reaction before rather than after the government is committed to a line of action , then pressure groups should address Parliament . |
| 25 | It is interesting that the Treasury was only willing to publish the White Paper in the autumn of each year after rather than before the hard decisions fur the third year had been taken , and made no commitment to publish the Medium Term Economic Assessment , actually refusing to do so in 1971 . |
| 26 | If it is true that verbal questions primarily engage the left hemisphere while spatial questions tap the functions of the right hemisphere , it might be predicted that responses to such questions will be optimal when the appropriate hemisphere is activated rather than if the opposite hemisphere is aroused . |
| 27 | They have failed because of the tyranny which stems from a narrow curriculum rather than because the curriculum has been too broad or too diffuse . |
| 28 | Where a statement does cause the relevant belief or attitude in a hearer , it is because he has some reason to think the speaker 's beliefs on that topic are likely to be true , or his attitudes ones he is likely to find , on enquiry , reason to share , rather than because the mere words have any great hold over him . |
| 29 | The negative externality in this case arises either because the market rewards only those who are first ( rather than rewarding films on the basis of their R&D inputs ) , or because the market rewards product innovations which cannibalize existing products ( rewarding the innovator at the expense of rivals rather than because the innovator 's efforts have expanded the market ) . |
| 30 | Similar procedures were carried out as described above except that the secondary antibody was rabbit antibody to human immunoglobulin conjugated with peroxidase ( DAKO , High Wycombe , UK ) instead of alkaline phosphatase . |