Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that rather than allow him to marry me ? |
| 2 | He was pleasant enough and told her all she needed to know . |
| 3 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 4 | You know when they said they were going scuba diving at eight o'clock and did we want to go ? |
| 5 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 6 | The Society 's view is that a more positive solution is needed : to amend the Financial Services Act 1986 so as to make it clear precisely how far rules made under the Act displace the general law . |
| 7 | The temptation is always to deny this rather than confront it , to revert to plans on paper , stick with the safe rather than the exciting even if , at the end of the day with this route , little is achieved . |
| 8 | I am not certain that time and rehabilitation is not the best for this rather than sedating them . |
| 9 | To a Marxist-Leninist , control of resources is power ; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it . |
| 10 | Pre-prepared units of work should be labelled and stored so as to make them accessible to pupils and teachers alike . |
| 11 | Now change legs — can you do this effortlessly or do you find you have one leg stronger than the other ? |
| 12 | You see this thing did you buy this separately or did it come in the Walkman ? |
| 13 | You can make it different like and make it sort of still a dance area . |
| 14 | You we , I 'm glad you said that cos , I 'm not sure if I told you this before but d' ya remember what these numbers here mean ? |
| 15 | I can organise my time rather than panicking ‘ Have I left this here or have I left that there ? ’ ’ |
| 16 | Higher profits indicate a more favourable return on capital , which may encourage companies to reinvest any surplus rather than devote it to alternative uses . |
| 17 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 18 | It already makes black and white displays in the US , but demand for notebook personal computers with colour displays is growing , and Sharp says it would rather make these locally than export them from Japan , where they are still subject to perverse US anti-dumping duties . |
| 19 | On the other hand , this goal , that is , a sample sufficiently large so as to make it representative , had to be weighed against time , staffing and other factors which imposed a practical limit on the size of the sample . |
| 20 | This is very popular in the country because upon the whole trade unions are unpopular , and therefore , if you can attach the consequences of your own actions ( for which you desire to transfer the blame to other people ) to somebody who is unpopular already and attribute it to him , you are almost certain to be home and dry . |
| 21 | Taking all three upstairs and let them . |
| 22 | Perhaps that was why Father Devlin had volunteered to act as match-maker , preferring to have him married rather than have him fornicate , as he had in the past , with the tinker women passing through the district . |
| 23 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 24 | ‘ Reward a young horse for being good rather than punish him for being naughty ’ |
| 25 | By the time you 've you 've moved them all rather than drawing them all in again then you run the con activity and swop back . |
| 26 | Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation . |
| 27 | Finally you put it all together and find you got a nice solid looking case . |
| 28 | Such a threat is credible only if carrying it out would impose little loss on the person terminating the contract . |
| 29 | I 'm sure Mummy will get better quickly and join us . ’ |
| 30 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |