Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ David more or less said the same , but I really do n't know what to think . |
| 3 | And I think in terms of justifying that , if we had that you know , if you 're saying people have to justify why they 're going , I think they 'd all more or less say the same . |
| 4 | So that , no matter what they do , they are more or less giving the same performance each time . |
| 5 | Can you take easy exercise — walking or gently cycling a few miles , running up the stairs , carrying a heavy suitcase a distance — without becoming puffed or stiff ? |
| 6 | The effect of ending the rule will be to give retailers freedom to choose whether or not to charge the same , whether payment is made by credit card or cash . ’ |
| 7 | Some children were sent to widowed grandmothers to live with them for company , or just sleep a few nights , like the seaman 's daughter on the Western Isles who , when all the men were away at the fishing , ‘ used to sleep with granny … bringing the water from the well and bringing in the peat , tidying up the floor and singing songs , for granny she was a very musical lady , yes she was . ’ |
| 8 | If you have a lot of different dates to enter , either use a keystroke macro — something that I will cover in a future Step-by-Step ( but see ‘ Further Reading ’ ) or just enter the same date , say @DATEVALUE ( ’ 1-Jan-90 ’ ) in the first cell , copy it down the column for as many rows as you expect to need and then edit it ( using F2 ) to enter the real dates . |
| 9 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 10 | Of course , it 's Bonfire Night , so if you 're off to a display or just having a few sparklers at home , have a great evening . |
| 11 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
| 12 | In general even if it can be shown that one particular dichotic testing procedure can lead to an accurate prediction of the side of speech representation it does not logically follow that other procedures are equally valid or even tap the same processes . |
| 13 | You find out what 's wrong with what you 've done and sort of go off in another direction , or maybe follow the same direction slightly and veer off . |
| 14 | soc : And I suppose you 'd like more of the same so you can go on pinpointing variation and replicate the studies which have been done to show the same thing in different places , or maybe to include a few more explanatory variables in your statistical model ? |
| 15 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |
| 16 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 17 | Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress . |
| 18 | Although much remained the same as before — the new electorate constituted but one-thirtieth of the population , 31 boroughs still had fewer than 300 electors in each , voting remained by open ballot ( secret ballots were considered rather un-English ) , and the aristocracy still held great sway politically — the act precipitated important changes both within and outside the House of Commons . |
| 19 | If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests , then major land reform is essential . |
| 20 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
| 21 | A further question is whether or not a less costly form of regulation could be devised that still allows the same degree of competition in the markets with the same level of investor protection . |
| 22 | So that probably explains a few things . |
| 23 | In a study of the local area , for instance , it is Attainment Target 2 that often poses the most problems . |
| 24 | The two king-size beds are covered with a floral patterned fabric , the kind worked over and over in consumer tests to lead to the choice of the one that consistently causes the least offence . |
| 25 | Quota filmmaking also made the argument for narrative simplicity that sometimes escaped the more prolix mainstream filmmakers . |
| 26 | We talked with our students about the freedoms of college life , and suggested that they might judge whether or not certain behaviour was ‘ age appropriate ’ by looking at the nursery nurses ( incorrectly and naïvely assuming the latter would unfailingly provide the models we sought ! ) . |
| 27 | Then he opened his eyes , spoke a few words and eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room . |
| 28 | go beyond the association between the epidermal growth factor ( EGF ) receptor , Grb2 and Sos , and show that , in Src-transformed cells , the Shc adaptor protein replaces the EGF receptor as the phosphotyrosine target and presumably achieves the same end point ( activation of Ras ) . |
| 29 | 13.3 Except as otherwise provided in this Clause , makes no other representations or warranties and expressly excludes the same whether implied , statutory or otherwise , especially as to quality or fitness of the Licensed Software for any particular purpose . |
| 30 | Shares , goes the patter , are products like any other and so deserve the same marketing effort . |