Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep down or the same thing might happen to you . ’ |
| 2 | In one of their questions they asked respondents whether their job required more , less or the same skill as when they had started work . |
| 3 | All Saints Church had been erected in 1876–8 , but after being damaged during World War II , it was demolished and most of its parish was combined with that of St Barnabas so that the latter church was renamed All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 4 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 5 | Just to underline what my hon. Friend is saying , it is also the case that the profile takes into account second homes , so that the same principle applies there too . |
| 6 | Yet , as Sharp expressed it , Christ taught ‘ that all mankind , even our professed enemies … must necessarily be esteemed our neighbours … so that the same benevolence … is indisputably due , under the Gospel , to our brethren of the universe ’ . |
| 7 | It is also in the nature of things that categories will overlap , so that the same feature may well be noted under different headings . |
| 8 | With this theory , exchange rates will adjust so that the same bundle of goods costs the same in all countries . |
| 9 | The Boeing 707 was now a safer aeroplane , but it was felt in AIB that some important matters of principle and practice needed to be changed so that the same sort of thing could not happen again with a different type of aircraft . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE . |
| 11 | An alternative way of stopping date and time values from changing if you have already made a lot of entries into a spreadsheet is to use the /Range , Value command and specifying the relevant range of cells when prompted ‘ Convert what ? and then pressing enter twice so that the same starting point is used for ‘ To where ? ’ . |
| 12 | The 260 days of the sacred year each had a number from one to thirteen attached to it and there were also twenty different day-names , arranged so that the same combination of number and name only came round again 260 days later . |
| 13 | You may have to handicap so that the same group does n't always win ; for instance , some children find one word , while others find another . |
| 14 | Other knitters with this machine might like to take the precaution of buying a couple of clamps so that the same thing can not happen to them . |
| 15 | Most instruction is given during school hours on a rota system so that the same class is not missed every week . |
| 16 | These patterns varied from language to language , but only a limited number of such patterns seemed to occur , so that the same pattern of kinship terminology was found among totally unrelated peoples speaking totally unrelated languages . |
| 17 | The difference between a more conventional company and an incorporated contract computer programmer/analyst is merely that the former can and does respond simultaneously to a multiplicity of orders which partly overlap and partly succeed one another . |
| 18 | The first point does not establish that people are spontaneously more inclined to conflict than to co-operation , merely that the latter tendency does not prevail absolutely . |
| 19 | Ashdown 's office will cautiously admit only that the former jungle warrior is on a private visit to the islands , part of a series of nationwide consultations with ‘ ordinary people ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Only that the same typewriter was used to send MacQuillan a death threat . ’ |
| 21 | Over the next eight months the pair remained together although no more spawning preparation took place . |
| 22 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 23 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 24 | This will be so if the same work is done by fewer employees or by no employees at all . |
| 25 | According to Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , the Minister of the Presidency who announced the increases , regular currency devaluations would cease henceforth and no more money would be printed without firm backing . |
| 26 | There might be some advantage if anthropologists regularly wrote about " cosmology " rather than about " religion " , if only because the former word is not much used by ordinary speakers of ordinary English . |
| 27 | Charles II returned to the old system of three separate kingdoms , united only because the same man was head of each of them . |
| 28 | The bread wards off hunger for as long as the same weight of ordinary bread despite its lower starch value . |
| 29 | Ageing has to be recognized as a process , a gradual transition , rather than a once-for-all event . |
| 30 | I I I 'm well I 'm not entirely familiar with such jargon , I think it falls within the latter rather than the former definition . |