Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [noun prp] " 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 | Or or indeed does Mr want to come in on vacancies ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although unconfirmed at the time , rumours that DEC had struck up a deal with Auspex Systems Inc , the Santa Clara , California network server company that already counts IBM among its customers , have turned out to be correct ( UX No 384 ) . |
| 6 | Its tableaux of suffering and benediction are on a scale that easily matches Faure 's score and its concluding lifts are exquisite — the women floating high above the men like angels breast-stroking through paradise . |
| 7 | The cause of this decrease in open probability is unclear , but it is possible that over this range of depolarising voltages , Ca 2 + at high concentration ( 1.2 mM in the bath ) blocked the channel at a site that normally binds Ba 2 + ( see below ) , as seen with rabbit skeletal muscle K + channels incorporated into planar lipid bilayers . |
| 8 | It could be , too , that the unusually complex character of Captain Hawkins , an illegitimate son of Peter Simple 's uncle , a man moved by obsessive jealousy , eroded by concealed cowardice and capable of the most intricate plotting against the young hero , has something to do with one of O'Brian 's most impressive studies of character , the officer Lord Clonfert who , in The Mauritius Command , more than once frustrates Aubrey 's plans and perplexes to the point of real suffering the open-minded captain with his extraordinary psychosomatic state . |
| 9 | It is Denethor 's insistence on defending this ( III , 89 ) that nearly kills Faramir , and all it does in practice is to obstruct the arrival of the Rohirrim ( III , 111 ) by which time it is already a ‘ ruin' , for all the ‘ labour ’ wasted on it at the start . |
| 10 | Horace Walpole describes the effect of walking through the grotto into the garden in language that both recalls Eloisa to Abelard and anticipates descriptions in the Gothic novel : ‘ The passing through the gloom from the grotto to opening day ; the retiring and again assembling shades ; the dusky groves , the larger lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that led up to his mother 's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement . ’ |
| 11 | Colin Scott , Rangers ' third choice goalkeeper , has been put on stand-by in a provisional squad that also contains Brian Reid but Smith 's final selection will only be evident when the players take to the field for the pre-match warm-up tomorrow night . |
| 12 | But anyone who takes the poem head-on , as though entering upon a piece of hitherto unfamiliar English verse , is bound to be struck by its crazy-paving of little-used or dialect words ( " shaws " ) , of samples from the literary lexicon ( " meads " , " unapparelled " ) , of old-tyme poetryspeak ( " thou wast not born for aye " ) , of dubiously archaic constructions ( " friend thee more " " steads him nothing " ) , of blended or cross-bred idioms ( " pure of stain " ) , of literary reminiscences ( " dust and dreams " — a most adroit rendering of , but one that inevitably recalls Shakespeare and " we are such stuff as dreams are made on " ) . |
| 13 | Thatcher was four votes short of outright victory ; she wanted to fight on , but was told to go by her cabinet ( the same loyal troupe that now surrounds Major ) . |
| 14 | Labour Minister Erick Thompson Piñeres , resigned on Oct. 30 , stating that his decision reflected " the crisis that currently afflicts President Calderón 's Cabinet , a rift between economic and social groups " . |
| 15 | In addition , letters to friends , records , certificates , documents , family anecdotes — even occasional remarks — are assembled as part of an elaborate mosaic that actually makes Einstein come alive as a real human being . |
| 16 | She accompanies Lucie and her child to Paris during the Reign of Terror , when Darnay has been imprisoned , and forcibly prevents Madame Defarge from discovering their escape but at the cost of her own hearing ( she is permanently deafened by the accidental firing off of Mme Defarge 's pistol during their struggle ) , TTC i 4 et seq . |
| 17 | She did this amazing transformation from a dragon to a buttercup , and within seconds Mrs Foster offered to have her in her suite . |
| 18 | Following this she then insults his manliness , and delicately manipulates Macbeth to her view of the situation . |
| 19 | The predicted HO 2 concentration for the middle six hours of 15 January is 3.6x10 8 molecules cm -3 , in good agreement with the ‘ measured ’ value ( from equation ( 7 ) ) of 3x10 8 molecules cm -3 , especially as the ‘ measured ’ value makes no provision for photolytic loss of H 2 O 2 and so underestimates HO 2 by about 20% . |
| 20 | Well the only thing we have a problem on ‘ Sonnet ’ with , Luke , so far as I can see anyway , and I know Jeff agrees with me on this — right Jeff ? — and so does Jim incidentally , Luke , ’ said Joe , ‘ is the form . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah and so does Jim . |
| 22 | ‘ You know the answer to that , and so does Beryl now , though I wrapped it up a bit to save her having a fit on the spot . |
| 23 | He sniggers , and so does Gerald . |
| 24 | So does Stuey and so does Bob , do n't you Bob ? |
| 25 | and so does Lamont |
| 26 | Colonel Mustard survives and so does Miss Scarlett but the Reverend Green , it appears , is old hat . |
| 27 | And so does Mike . |
| 28 | Robin Smith goes into the dock — and so does Kevan James , less so . |
| 29 | And so does Compsoft Delta |
| 30 | You say — and so does Dr. Briant — that the ‘ safe ’ scientists are the ones who do n't concern themselves with ideological issues . |