Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] is " in BNC.

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1 Up to the moment that the contract is made , or more accurately is to take effect , the agent retains both his status as a person and whatever rights this entails , including the right to make a contract .
2 But these reforms failed to coalesce into a coherent system because there was no prevailing political doctrine which could provide answers to such questions as , how much power or influence should the House of Commons exercise or how far is it — desirable to have some democratic control over local and regional administration ?
3 Without a foundation of good policy and adequate infrastructure , help to the private sector from the IFC or anywhere else is likely to be wasted .
4 Living in a cottage in the Cotswolds or anywhere else is n't an occupation .
5 You can study at home or wherever else is convenient to you , at the time and pace you choose .
6 The number of candidate words being discarded as too short or too long is quite small , and in fact the number of correct candidates being incorrectly discarded is slightly discouraging .
7 This is in keeping with large endoscopy studies showing that only rarely is there a gastroduodenal cause for positive faecal blood in patients on NSAIDs .
8 And it could be said that not only is it about imitation — it is also , as are other tours de force , itself an imitation of something .
9 In the wake of major advances in medicine and technology it 's interesting to hear that not only is acupuncture still used for many human conditions , but there is also an increasing trend toward using acupuncture for pets .
10 The second social consequence of care that emerges from Carlen 's work is that not only is the education of the young person seriously neglected , but so , too , is the emotional development .
11 One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment .
12 Perhaps a more fruitful line of argument is to emphasize that not only is rape a serious matter for the victim , but the ascertainment of one vital fact — consent — is a relatively easy matter for the man .
13 To know the occasion of the poem is helpful in any case , since it allows the reader to see that not only is Leapor making a burlesque of her own appearance , but satirizing the gentleman as well , and in a broad sense , the male gaze .
14 The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme .
15 You 'll find that not only is he no oil-painting ( more like The Picture of Dorian Gray ) , but he 's dull , predictable , lacklustre , hidebound , sexist and clumsy .
16 The exam itself has been the subject of considerable dispute , with accusations that not only is the marking inconsistent and some of the markers corrupt , but that the DET and the homelands education authorities frequently ‘ move the goalposts ’ by altering the pass levels year by year .
17 However , we believe that not only is such a stance disingenuous , but it also promotes a fundamentally flawed political strategy and reproduces naive notions of academic objectivity .
18 Although it is not possible to list here the groups , individuals and parishes who have helped us so far , I wish all to know that not only is their contribution needed but also greatly appreciated .
19 The net effect is that not only is there a cut-off of the effective gas-exchange surface area of the gills , but there is also a nutritious breeding ground for yet more parasites and especially bacteria of the Cytophaga — Myxobacteria family leading to gill rot/decay and ultimately fish death .
20 Can you not imagine the world-wide reaction when it is learnt that not only is America responsible for this potential disaster but that it was almost certainly caused by treason in the highest American military echelons ?
21 This last point raised the interesting possibility that not only is the brain the seat of the mind but also , different parts of the brain might be involved in different aspects of mind .
22 Specificity means that not only is a function lost or impaired after damage to one part of the brain but that it survives damage to other parts of the brain that , in turn , produces other effects .
23 PET scan studies of metabolic activity during various forms of cognitive performance have further reinforced this point , showing that not only is the left hemisphere more active than the right during linguistic function but also that the sub-areas implicated in language by the lesion studies are more active than surrounding areas .
24 Extensive experience with decriminalisation in Holland shows that not only is there no accompanying surge in consumption — allowing for the inrush of addicts from more restrictive countries — but related crime falls when drugs are legalised .
25 To assert that conduct is orderly is , from our point of view , to imply that it is directed by a sense of social propriety — that not only is it non-random but that it is both generated and limited by prescriptions and the possibility of sanction , in particular the sanction of expressed disapproval .
26 We might begin to explain this paradox by recognizing that not only is much of what we call knowledge socially constructed , the boundaries between subjects are also socially constructed .
27 In so far as the causes lie in individual problems , help must be made available to families , help that not only is relevant but is made accessible and acceptable even to those who are very angry or demoralized or despairing .
28 They then realize that not only is this type of undecidability possible in Xorandor 's logic , but that it is also the founding condition of their binary systems .
29 Meanwhile Hobbes ' low opinion of natural man as an individual was given a different twist by Locke ( 1690 ) who emphasized that not only is man outside society an amoral being but that the distinction between moral and amoral behaviour itself depends upon social conventions .
30 This would imply that not only is psychopathology becoming increasingly externalized , but also increasingly schizoid in appearance .
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