Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pers pn] are [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we find that when we have stopped it , either things are just as bad ( which is improbable ) or that they are still fairly bad , then indeed it will be easier , scientifically easier , to detect any other causes which may be at work . ’ |
| 2 | Their family fears that they may have been tortured to death or extrajudicially executed , or that they are still being held in incommunicado detention . |
| 3 | However , if people challenge the basic principle of utility one can not say that they are mistaken in any kind of factual way , or that they are necessarily irrational . |
| 4 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 5 | While tying is not necessarily incompatible with the fundamental economic objectives of aid , it reduces its potential benefit to the extent that goods are over-priced , or that they are less appropriate — and sometimes much less appropriate — for the job . |
| 6 | Feminist psychology also often accepts psychological clichés about black women : for instance , that in low socioeconomic groups they are more powerful than black men or white women ; or that they are sexually delinquent ( e.g. Rainwater 1972 ) . |
| 7 | The team says this is not so because administrators dislike them , or that they are hardly aware of them . |
| 8 | In the morrow of great victory , will they show some equanimity and , above all , not give business in this country or abroad the impression that in practice we are any less committed to a single currency than any of the Twelve or that we are any less likely to be a part of it ? |
| 9 | Heat the oil in a large casserole dish , add the meatballs and cook for 5–6 mins , or until they are evenly browned , turning them over frequently . |
| 10 | Most crucial of all , the royal couple themselves , with their thin permeable skins , will die if the atmosphere gets so hot and dry that they lose their body fluids or if they are badly chilled , and this may mean the end of the whole colony . |
| 11 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 12 | Is credit rationing easier to implement if banks operate as a cartel or if they are highly competitive ? |
| 13 | Or if they are there , they 're existing voluntary organisations which may be already very loaded , who 've got a lot of work to do , to get into a negotiating framework and so on , so the first the thing I 'd say in answer to you is that , N C V O and other must put a tremendous pressure on government and local authorities to fund the community development aspect of the pluralistic society which er , the current government seems to want . |
| 14 | For example , if the eigenvalues are numerically small , a unit could dominate the spectral matrix ; or if they are very large , a unit could be of the order of the errors in the computation . |
| 15 | If you want to know more , write to South East Arts , Crescent Road , Tunbridge Wells , or if you are particularly interested in crafts , either as professional craftsman , or as a member of the general public , contact me , Frances Smith , at Tunbridge Wells four one double six . |
| 16 | This can be especially true if you are a woman who is unused to making sexual demands , or if you are already in a long-term relationship when you begin to ask for safer sex . |
| 17 | If your library does not participate in the work of the SUC , or if you are currently considering automation and would like advice on automated input , tape compatibility , etc. , please contact Eileen Watson , the Editor of the SUC at Lending Services , from whom copies of the full results of the questionnaire survey can also be obtained . |
| 18 | They do not apply if your employment is terminated during the term or if you are constructively dismissed . |
| 19 | If you are going to spend a lot of money advertising nationally , or if you are very inexperienced , you might like to enlist the help of an advertising agency . |
| 20 | ‘ ( 1 ) In this Act a ‘ self-regulating organisation ’ means a body ( whether a body corporate or an unincorporated association ) which regulates the carrying on of investment business of any kind by enforcing rules which are binding on persons carrying on business of that kind either because they are members of that body or because they are otherwise subject to its control . |
| 21 | ‘ ( 1 ) In this Act a ‘ self-regulating organisation ’ means a body ( whether a body corporate or an unincorporated association ) which regulates the carrying on of investment business of any kind by enforcing rules which are binding on persons carrying on business of that kind either because they are members of that body or because they are otherwise subject to its control . |
| 22 | To the children who find any sort of role play difficult ( perhaps because it has been discouraged at home , or because they are very shy ) it communicates to them that you approve of such play . |
| 23 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 24 | Commons Members unable to attend conference through sickness or because they are abroad on parliamentary business may send instruction to the secretary of the party or to a parliamentary colleague on how their vote shall be cast provided that they send to the secretary on or before the date on which conference opens an explanation in writing of their absence . |
| 25 | Wordsworth returns again and again to his main problem , whether we are in some sense ‘ led ’ by spiritual agencies — notice that he is not sure , and carefully qualifies any dogmatic statements — or whether we are alone responsible for what we become . |
| 26 | The morphological interpretation of these structures presents many problems , especially as there is a basic and long-standing controversy as to whether they are , at least in part , modified abdominal appendages serially homologous with the thoracic limbs , or whether they are simply secondary sternal processes . |
| 27 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 28 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 29 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 30 | One of the questions which must be answered is whether these do indeed show the predominant influence of Jamaican Creole or whether they are better described in terms of some other variety . |