Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also hard to move without being promoted , so if you do not want more administrative responsibility , or are not promotion material , again you are inhibited from searching for a more congenial workplace . |
| 2 | From now on I will use the term " marriage " simply to denote the institution immediately under discussion without prejudging the issue as to whether the different kinds of " marriage " thus presented are or are not members of a single logical class . |
| 3 | Speakers 9 and 10 are more interesting in that neither of them used Creole syntactic features or any of the segmental phonological features that are characteristic of Creole , or are identifiably part of the " Patois " stereotype . |
| 4 | The real solution is to train pilots to accept responsibility , whether they are sitting in the aircraft or are merely bystanders at the launch point . |
| 5 | They sometimes put these dramatic claims in the form of semantic theories : some of them said that propositions of law are synonymous with predictions of what judges will do , or are only expressions of emotion and so not really propositions at all . |
| 6 | Erm i is there opportunity in our legal system at the moment or are there movements that way ? |
| 7 | Do film-makers just make use of the kookaburra to conjure up exotic tropical atmosphere — or are there birds with similar calls ? |
| 8 | Are the edges clean or are there chips where the surface coating has chipped off ? |
| 9 | Does China still refuse to join international agreements on nuclear proliferation or are there signs of a softening of its position ? |
| 10 | Is the emphasis on team players or are there mavericks ( non-conformists ) and stars in the company ? |
| 11 | Is that a model which should be applied universally or are there alternatives ? |
| 12 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 13 | So often , it was claimed , local government was not the voice of the local community — election turnouts were derisory , elections were fought on national rather than local issues , and many voters were council employees ( with , therefore , a vested interest in greater spending ) , council house tenants ( with an interest in subsidized rents ) , or were not ratepayers at all . |
| 14 | Was it universally backward or were there variations between different sectors and branches of industry ? |
| 15 | It will be the same now — everyone says they were either forced to join the Party , or were never members . |
| 16 | Alternatively , if the target is a company which is not listed , or is not part of a listed group , then it is likely that the shareholders will be limited in number , accessible and able to agree to proceed . |
| 17 | If rape is defined as ‘ carnal knowledge of a woman without her consent ’ , then it makes nonsense of the proposition that the jury is the trier of fact if the judge takes it upon himself to tell the jury what is or is not consent . |
| 18 | TYPE , PFND The Module type has not been specified for this module or is not S , F or M. Please specify a valid module type , S for a SOURCE module , F for a FOREIGN module , or M for a PMODEL module . |
| 19 | ‘ Or is n't self-pity allowed either ? ’ |
| 20 | The question of whether he was or was not John became the most important thing in my constricted universe . |
| 21 | However , allowing for additions by providing areas that are logically extensions of the prime data tracks , rather than just physically , has made it necessary to double the size of the lowest-level index , with separate entries for records on the prime data and overflow tracks . |
| 22 | When graded tests are used for subjects that are squarely part of the ‘ core curriculum ’ , maths , sciences , languages , and English , there may be a certain reluctance to introduce such a system . |
| 23 | To get to their house you drive down arterial roads lined with buildings that are neither warehouses nor shops . |
| 24 | In real life — or even in the physics laboratory — we frequently encounter objects that are neither gases nor in equilibrium . |
| 25 | According to Andrews , Ontos DB — described as a component object database environment — resides at a higher level than persistent languages such as C++ and SmallTalk or databases that are simply collections of objects that use C++ topologies rather than SQL . |
| 26 | The public should no more offer a subsidy of this kind using public money without checking if the recipient actually requires it or anybody else besides , means testing is nothing new , there are plenty of other benefits that are already means tested right across the board . |
| 27 | Notice that periodic waves that are even functions of time , that is , symmetric about the time origin , can be represented by a constant and just cosine waves , while waves that are odd functions of time , that is , reversed in sign about the time origin , can be represented by just sine waves . |
| 28 | These are of two types , namely those that necessarily exclude outsiders and create an ingroup ; and those that are inclusively internationalist , and promote the common human characteristics of all who share the planet . |
| 29 | More importantly , food molecules get into the mother 's breast milk , and babies that are exclusively breast-fed can be ill because of the sort of food the mother is eating . |
| 30 | There are about 300 fiches which include the NACAB information system as well as six of the 15 reference books that are normally part of the bureau system . |