Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 2 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 3 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 4 | Durkheim saw the centrality of the prison as largely brought about by the operation of the first part of his first law : prison was a milder penalty than capital and corporal punishments and so became adopted as collective sentiments became more sympathetic to the criminal 's suffering . |
| 5 | Yes , they do , in the opinion of John Lyall , the manager of Ipswich and an expert better placed to judge than most . |
| 6 | Why should the commission believe that advanced mousetrap manufacture , say , should be represented in at least two member states when one manufacturer might supply the whole of Europe with the products and thus could be better placed to export as well ? |
| 7 | The appropriate strategy is perhaps to wait to determine whether the Japanese businessman is prepared to offer his hand for a handshake or whether he is going to bow . |
| 8 | A shy bird , much preferring to run than to fly . |
| 9 | They had not long to wait to discover whether Edward was in earnest or not . |
| 10 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 11 | This finding corresponds with research that has concentrated on early retirement ( McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ; Parker 1980 ; and in France , Cribier 1981 ; Gaullier 1982 ) and withdrawal from the labour market through the job release scheme ( Makeham and Morgan 1980 : 14 ) , but we do not know how many of those older workers with poor health would have been fit enough to continue working if the plant had not closed . |
| 12 | Although buyers will want to secure the best possible deal for themselves , sellers will only want to sell if they too think that they will obtain a good deal . |
| 13 | But Eleanor Young , chairman of Darlington Community Health Council , said : ‘ We would only want to know if the hospital was going to have any effect on NHS provision . |
| 14 | I guess she really liked those , she only got moved because of er the |
| 15 | ‘ We only got involved because we 're being badgered by one of our ex 's , an old friend of hers , I believe . |
| 16 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 17 | IBM will no doubt eagerly want to see if any other big names follow WordPerfect 's example . |
| 18 | Hence , the tender issue will not necessarily eliminate underpricing although substantially reducing it renders it not too popular with those who like to ‘ stag ’ new issues . |
| 19 | Nor is complete lexical coverage a goal that one would necessarily want to achieve since such a complete lexicon can cause problems for a recognition system . |
| 20 | The temperature should be in the 77–80°s ; F range for general maintenance , raised by a degree or so to promote spawning when the fish are ripe — assuming any trigger is needed . |
| 21 | The fact that these understandings are incomplete or ineffectively explained arises because of our intermediate stage of knowledge . |
| 22 | He has only come to see if we want any meat , which will be coming into the shop tomorrow . |
| 23 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 24 | He only stopped working when he ate or slept . |
| 25 | Whenever a child is created , it is only added to OPEN if it is not already in OPEN or CLOSED . |
| 26 | The bridge plate should only need replacing if it is split or lifting away from beneath the table ; check for this by looking inside with a torch and a small mirror . |
| 27 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
| 28 | It can not simply withhold performance and wait to be sued : if it does , the other party merely has to wait until expiry of the contractual time bar period and then sue . |
| 29 | If the horse suddenly starts bucking when we ride it , and we jump off and swat it with a cane ; the horse will remember , but it may remember the wrong thing . |
| 30 | As Sir Ronald Syme has pointed out , the Romans had a special veneration for authority , precedent , and tradition , and they greatly objected to change unless it was thought to be in accord with ancestral custom , which meant in practice the sentiments of the oldest living senators . |