Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all high quality listening applications , except where totally enclosed headphones are needed to exclude the noise of one 's surroundings , I rate these Stax headphones very highly . |
| 2 | The efforts to simulate weightlessness in 2001 are largely omitted in 2010 except where obviously unavoidable such as inside HAL 's ‘ brain ’ and , especially , in space itself , between the Leonov and the long-abandoned Discovery , Bowman 's ship . |
| 3 | Cost of sales is also adjusted to reflect these deductions , except that only equal annual charges for debt service are deducted so as to spread the financing costs over the remaining lives of the respective sales contracts rather than the uneven repayment schedules established for the loans . |
| 4 | Normal flight calls , ‘ puihu ’ ( male ) and ‘ piah ’ ( female ) , shriller than and quite distinct from Buzzard 's ; various other calls at or near nest . |
| 5 | In the preface to his great History of Europe , H. A. L. Fisher wrote : " Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot , a rhythm , a predetermined pattern . |
| 6 | Adduct levels were found to be higher in smokers than non-smokers and adduct levels were significantly higher after truncal vagotomy and drainage than after highly selective vagotomy . |
| 7 | Ridges on the embryonic surface , representing the future genital organs , are present by the end of the fifth week and by six weeks the sexual glands ( the gonads ) are developing although as yet undifferentiated between male and female . |
| 8 | But er Uncle Jonathan only used the telephone if if absolutely essential . |
| 9 | IMPERIAL Chemical Industries seems to have struck a surprisingly good $450m ( £285m ) deal with Johnson & Johnson and Merck in swapping its US over-the counter pharmaceutical business for the rights to an established anti-depressant drug and a substantial , if as yet unquantified , cash sum . |
| 10 | It has been done repeatedly since and very likely , in some corner of the ocean , an Arab dhow is being undergirded at this moment . |
| 11 | Though Cognitive–Behavioural Marital Therapy has consistently been found to be as or more effective than any other type of marital therapy , nevertheless in terms of the proportion of clients that actually improve , the results are quite modest . |
| 12 | A full-scale attack on the evanescent substance would have diverted many resources from other problems equally as or more important , and Raistrick had no reason for making such upheaval . |
| 13 | Arguments against screening included that other effects of hormone replacement therapy are as or more important when decisions on treatment are made ; that no agreement exists on when and whom to treat ; that measurements vary at different times and with different equipment ; and that there is little separation between the groups who will and will not suffer fracture in terms of bone mass . |
| 14 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 15 | Dyer 's doings are the same as but also different from those investigated by the fretful man he resembles , just as Hawksmoor 's investigative Scotland Yard is the same as but also different from the architects ' department of that name attended by Dyer . |
| 16 | Dyer 's doings are the same as but also different from those investigated by the fretful man he resembles , just as Hawksmoor 's investigative Scotland Yard is the same as but also different from the architects ' department of that name attended by Dyer . |
| 17 | McDunn looks at me , as though slightly puzzled . |
| 18 | Baby had looked like this doll , as though nearly real , yet not quite , with a waxy pale skin , yellow-tinged , bright glassy eyes and a dainty pink mouth . |
| 19 | The next time he left the digging he kept away from Fiver and sat looking at the bank , as though entirely concerned with the work . |
| 20 | Despite these qualifications to the degree of state dependence on monopoly capital , pluralists frame their response to Marxist ideas almost as though more recent developments in Marxism did not exist . |
| 21 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 22 | Accordingly , it seems as though only small fragments of gliadin can be taken up , and that an intraluminal digestion of orally ingested gliadin is a prerequisite for the uptake . |
| 23 | " Is that true ? " said Clelia , frowning intently at the egg , not risking the raising of her eyes , as though truly diffident , suddenly diffident . |
| 24 | Her whole attitude was one of mortal weariness and she slumped in the chair as though too tired to make the attempt to rise . |
| 25 | All this in turn , though as yet embryonic , may have major geographical implications . |
| 26 | Conrad did not recognize that a mere equality of strength was , for an attacking army , inadequate in the face of modern , though as yet undeployed , defensive weaponry . |