Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made for television and to be shown at Easter , it is about Lawrence of Arabia , or rather Lawrence after Arabia , back from the desert and involved in the Allies ' post-war negotiations over the map of the Middle East . |
| 2 | No one or so Ralph of Diss believed — had ever dared to attack it before . |
| 3 | It would , of course , be wrong to view Pope or even Swift as a simple woman-hater . |
| 4 | There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth . |
| 5 | So the arms race is racing merrily ahead , and most of the regimes to which we are giving arms are just as uncertain in their ultimate allegiance as Iran under the Shah , or indeed Iraq under Saddam Hussein . |
| 6 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 7 | It must have been a Saturday or else Lewis for some reason or other was on holiday from work . |
| 8 | Chapters 4 to 6 are art historical , interpreting about 800 years , beginning with a time when a miniaturist copied approved models with almost or actual religious obedience , and ending in a period in the early Renaissance when an illuminator does not even stand up when the Chancellor of France enters the room or when John of Holland can complain that Jacquemart de Hesdin has stolen his private pattern sheets in 1398 . |
| 9 | The decision by Nicaragua to open diplomatic relations with Taiwan in November meant that only Mexico of the Central American countries maintained ties exclusively with the mainland . |
| 10 | The user can also specify a DC state , so that only DCs in the specified state will be listed ; if no state is specified , all relevant DCs will be listed . |
| 11 | The user can also specify a DC state , so that only DCs in the specified state will be listed ; if no state is specified , all DC states will be considered for inclusion in the listing . |
| 12 | Although perhaps Belinda with a bowl of fruit … ’ |
| 13 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 14 | It is fair to speculate from archaeological finds that both John of Luxemburg and his son Charles IV lived here while Prague Castle was being made habitable . |
| 15 | He had heard the speech often , not only from Joseph , but from those like him , committed , embittered men with a vision that even Patrick with all the wisdom of his twenty years , knew would never be achieved in his lifetime . |
| 16 | The scientific establishment can resist a new idea with such complacent zeal that even Joshua with his trumpets would have no effect . |
| 17 | An immediate sternal thump during a witnessed cardiac arrest may revert VT ( 11–25% ) and rarely VF to sinus rhythm . |
| 18 | Erm , and so Freud at the beginning says that he er , he , he had a personal dislike of er Wilson , and resented him for what he had done and held him responsible for the subsequent disasters . |
| 19 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 20 | He has moved house to Sedgefield , close by the National Hunt racecourse and so Utopia to ‘ Ned , ’ and he remarked of the Durham atmosphere : ‘ It is just like starting my career all over again , everyone is so keen . ’ |
| 21 | And so Demeter in the lengthening days , |
| 22 | And so Harrison of Caldbeck and Robinson of Buttermere — wrestlers were always known by name and village both — were circling about each other 's conversation trying for a grip . |
| 23 | Tchaikovsky for the onions and perhaps Stravinsky for a truly surprising vegetable stew . |
| 24 | However , except for the most self-sealed at one end — and how many of these are left after even Burma appears to consider re-entering the world ? — and perhaps Japan at the other extreme , the ‘ national economy ’ is not what it was . |
| 25 | He was not the first to be interested in Rome ; certainly Theophrastus and perhaps Callias of Syracuse preceded him . |
| 26 | The government is intending to convert Drax power station in Yorkshire , and perhaps Ferrybridge in the same county , with FGD . |
| 27 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 28 | Nithard gives more information than any other contemporary about how kings , and especially Charles at the very outset of his reign , measured up to these requirements . |
| 29 | He might have done , he 's very a strong mighty chap and I do n't know that anything I said could have influenced him and anyway Brenda to be perfectly honest I wo I wo |
| 30 | However , there is an expectation that children should use English and not Patwa to their parents . |