Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 2 | Ten or less suggests revision is necessary . |
| 3 | A score of seven or less suggests revision is necessary . |
| 4 | Discussing statements like these and saying whether they agree with them or not gives children an opportunity to consider views which conflict with their own and to modify their existing views . |
| 5 | ‘ You know the ways — gets invited to council functions , writes letters of qualified support in the local paper , or just shows friendliness and interest . |
| 6 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 7 | Of course , in theory , the mirror image rule makes printed forms matter since it encourages or even forces parties receiving documents to read them carefully . |
| 8 | Most of Lewis and Harris and the uplands of South Uist have a very low Potential Water Deficit , as precipitation equals or even exceeds evapo-transpiration in all months of the year , and the uplands of southern Lewis , Harris and South Uist are so moist that even in summer ( April-September ) there is a PWS of over 500 mm . |
| 9 | In elderly people in industrialised societies the prevalence of arterial hypertension approaches or even exceeds 50% . |
| 10 | If a proposed merger is likely to lead to the merged firms having a market share greater than one quarter or alternatively involves assets in excess of £30 million , then it may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 11 | Why he was chosen as leader I do not know , or if in fact a leader is chosen or simply assumes command . |
| 12 | A commits a tort if , without lawful justification , he intentionally interferes with a contract between B and C , ( a ) by persuading B to break his contract with C , or ( b ) if by some unlawful act he directly or indirectly prevents B from performing his contract . |
| 13 | Or or indeed does Mr want to come in on vacancies ? |
| 14 | Although Articles 85 and 86 describe a number of examples of anti-competitive behaviour , these are not exhaustive ; any agreement , arrangement or conduct which actually or potentially affects trade in the Community and has an anti-competitive object or effect falls for consideration under Articles 85 and 86 . |
| 15 | With a reward of five new pence ( or twice times sixpence ) at stake they should not expect to make their fortune either . |
| 16 | … ( 6 ) In this section ‘ costs ’ means costs as between party and party , and includes the costs of applying for an order under this section ; and where a party begins to receive representation after the proceedings have been instituted , or ceases to receive representation before they are finally decided or otherwise receives representation in connection with part only of the proceedings , the reference in subsection ( 2 ) above to the costs incurred by the unassisted party in the proceedings shall be construed as a reference to so much of those costs as is attributable to that part . |
| 17 | An area of corporate discretion traditionally less constrained by bargaining relates to the nature of the work experience : whether , for instance , employees are allowed to participate in decision-making at appropriate levels in the organisation ; whether attempts are made to enrich otherwise boring jobs by rotation of tasks ; or whether the introduction of new technology leads to de-skilling or instead prompts investment in the acquisition of new competencies . |
| 18 | Plainly a lot to ask of anyone — far more than a momentary invasion of privacy , which can be bad enough — and it is an argumentative point that paradoxically makes self-sufficiency sound humble rather than arrogant . |
| 19 | Stanger has an appetite for apparently lost causes that rarely allows opponents to commit errors without getting punished . |
| 20 | Professor Daryl Busch and his team at the Ohio State University have mimicked the action of the body 's natural oxygen carriers , haemoglobin and myoglobin , by making the first totally synthetic iron-containing molecule that reversibly binds oxygen at room temperatures ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 105 , p 298 ) . |
| 21 | Their research on Malaysian and Singaporean women export-industry workers ( a category that mostly includes TNC workers ) shows that ethnicity and the availability of alternative employment can be key factors in the social and moral evaluation of women workers , and that there are substantial variations in the conceptions of factory work for women ( whether in TNCs or not ) across different communities . |
| 22 | No work that properly considers developments in different countries and continents and pieces them together in a satisfying , narrative whole . |
| 23 | One that effectively says stop what you 're doing and come over here when your concentration is wavering . |
| 24 | It is the notion of a norm that perhaps gives rise to the central representation problem . |
| 25 | By solving a physiological conundrum Hubel and Wiesel immediately created a psychological puzzle : how is visual perception possible in a system that only relays information about the location and orientation of edges ? |
| 26 | So while the type of tv reporting that so upsets Nicholas Soames may add to a sense of doubt already nagging away in many British minds , when the opinion pollster calls it is reduced to the level of painful anecdote . |
| 27 | It is the random nature of the violence that so terrorizes whites . |
| 28 | At the other end lie experiential and non-interventional studies of human behaviour that use the sort of ‘ let it all hang out ’ approach that so exasperates directors of quantitative research . |
| 29 | I do n't know if you noticed , but just outside the door , where the ground 's trodden , the grass thins , and there 's a slight hollow that obviously holds water every time it rains , and only dries out gradually in between — nice smooth black mud like double-cream . |
| 30 | The process of interpellation of subjects involves a ‘ recognition ’ that constantly transforms individuals into subjects . |