Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [det] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Several studies have shown that the concentration of carbon dioxide was as little as half the present concentration at the peak of the latest Ice Age , but it has not been clear if this is cause or effect .
2 The times and places of striking advance in productivity have by no means generally been times and places of educational advance ; nor , where they have been , is it clear whether this is cause and effect or , if so , which is cause and which effect .
3 It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all .
4 The House of Lords held that this was manslaughter if there was an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person , and D had either failed to give any thought to this risk or , having recognised the risk , nonetheless went on to take it .
5 ( Of course , it you are convinced that this is nonsense , the book might mirror that belief , and give you gobbledygook .
6 Chapman said : ‘ Obviously I 'm sad but that 's life and there is no animosity .
7 If using a large specimen plant the tank will generally look less contrived if this is place just off-centre .
8 And you will go around er using this to show people well I 've sold that and that 's mister so and so or that 's such and such business that 's gone so that you can show people that you 've actually sold these .
9 I do n't who said that but that 's rubbish .
10 And I 'm sure that that 's part of why sounds pretty good when he 's saying that it 's not the body that makes us who we are , it 's not the body that matters .
11 I 'm never sure if this is capital or recurrent , and I know I have a fund account under the Library cost centre through which I purchase software for Library use .
12 Erm , I 'm not sure if this is wind up or not , but John informs me that his middle name is Russell , and his dad wanted to call him Jack Russell
13 I am not sure if this is spot welded on along the seat base structure to the rear .
14 and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so .
15 Polythene and polyethylene are virtually non-absorbent and hygienic since most are dishwasher safe .
16 Now as long as this is council budget if this is what you prefer rather than Dovelands school that 's alright , this is the problem that the financial committee will be faced with this year .
17 Anybody else at three hundred and eighty pounds , I 'm selling for three hundred and eighty pounds three eighty and that 's number one O three .
18 They were small and neat and many were flower studies .
19 He turned to stare at Cadfael , braced and quivering , unsure whether this was friend or enemy facing him .
20 Erm no what coming out of this is that how that although one would assume in the south that the peasants ought to be more revolutionary , in actual fact it 's the reverse and why is this happening , is it because of the fact that the Communist Party were in the n that maybe essentially that the peasants in China er were reactionary and worked within the confines of moral economy , but because of the presence of the Communist Party in the north they became more revolutionary and that 's sort of suggested by the success of land reform there and the fact that how , that they ca n't implement it in the south .
21 Relatively new drugs are st are are new as far as that were concern for up to three years , which is a real menace .
22 The land was so rolling and fertile and this was winter .
23 This latter award reminds me of a key feature of being the best and that is teamwork .
24 Yes , two thousand three hundred people per week is correct but that was week on every week for five and a half years that Labour held office .
25 Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets .
26 Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets .
27 Clearly , it is most advantageous if both are cavity resonant , i.e. if is a multiple of the cavity 's free spectral range .
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