Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 2 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 3 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 4 | Babyish even for nine year olds perhaps , but better than waiting until they are teenagers . |
| 5 | So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ? |
| 6 | In autumn it glows like a beacon , especially if planted where it can be seen with the late sun shining through its leaves . |
| 7 | To make swifter unity on West German terms more attractive to East Germans , Mr Kohl has all but promised that their savings will be converted , over time , from Monopoly-money Ostmarks into rock-ribbed D-marks at the ridiculously unrealistic rate of 1:1 . |
| 8 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |
| 9 | There is another duty also to be considered : and that is the duty which Lord Atkin put in this wise : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour : ’ which I would expand so as to say that there is a duty on every man not to injure his neighbour by his want of reasonable care . |
| 10 | Before he could go out so as to wait until he could have the place to himself , the figure levered himself up , bowed to the altar , and turned and saw him . |
| 11 | The royals take an obscure pride in their penny-pinching , details of which are leaked to the press from time to time so as to suggest that they are , in fact , just like us . |
| 12 | It was generally believed that they were proposing to seek an electoral pact with the Conservatives , so as to ensure that they would hold their seats against what was expected to be a Conservative landslide at the next general election . |
| 13 | South Africa 's reply has been to attack transport and economic installations that link the neighbours so as to ensure that they remain dependent on South Africa . |
| 14 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 15 | Such an order may be made so as to ensure that there is a home for the children of the marriage . |
| 16 | This required taking such steps as arranging the candidate 's schedule so as to ensure that he arrived at campaign stops in time for coverage on the nightly news . |
| 17 | The Commission finally agreed on Dec. 21 , 1989 , after some years of often bitter disagreement , on a formula for determining whether cross-border corporate mergers within the EC should be subject to vetting by the Commissioner for competition policy so as to determine whether they would result in an unduly large market share for the newly merged companies ( for earlier drafts see p. 36310 ) . |
| 18 | Section 2 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1986 amends s. 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 so as to provide that it is unlawful for a person to discriminate against a woman : |
| 19 | However , if he has disclosed that fact so as to indicate that he is transferring to the purchaser only his own possessory title , then he will not be in breach of the condition , section 12(3) . |
| 20 | So they 'll only as attached and your sum assured , and thank you very much . |
| 21 | So when mentioned that she still had 4 tickets left , I took the plunge and said yes we would be interested . |
| 22 | The hedgehog can not dig itself in when threatened but it can protect its soft parts by rolling up into a tight ball . |
| 23 | Well i that was to sort of try and make you focus on the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we 're going to receive , that we receive through or that you have strengthened through Confirmation , rather than receiving because they 're already there . |
| 24 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 25 | She knew rather than felt that she was very tired and recognized the symptoms of an overstimulated brain in an exhausted body , the restless limbs and inability to get comfortable . |
| 26 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 27 | So-called commuter planes that carry up to 150 passengers whisper rather than roar because they use the latest propeller technology . |
| 28 | But before we move from discussing the lower levels of language — words , phrases , grammatical categories — to talking about the text as a unit of meaning , it would perhaps be useful to explain briefly what a text is and why we identify a given stretch of language as a text rather than assume that it is a set of unrelated words and sentences . |
| 29 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 30 | Whisky , because of its strength , is ‘ nosed ’ rather than tasted and it 's Frank 's job to sniff his way through barrels when their ten years are up . |