Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child may have right , misunderstood , or as yet unheard of ideas for his parents and siblings to listen to . |
| 2 | Only very gradually did a small number of educated critics come to see that although quite different from the Russian and European film the Hollywood and Hollywood-inspired film had developed its own qualities and that the great mass audience for that kind of entertainment had been responding quite genuinely to positive influence . |
| 3 | However the decline in the extra-area balance since 1982 has been so great , that although still positive in 1987 , it has been insufficient to prevent the overall balance of trade in manufactured goods from moving into deficit . |
| 4 | Normal flight calls , ‘ puihu ’ ( male ) and ‘ piah ’ ( female ) , shriller than and quite distinct from Buzzard 's ; various other calls at or near nest . |
| 5 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 6 | Ridges on the embryonic surface , representing the future genital organs , are present by the end of the fifth week and by six weeks the sexual glands ( the gonads ) are developing although as yet undifferentiated between male and female . |
| 7 | The fact that the Ceauşescus had countless colour televisions added to the perverse aspect of their superabundance since ordinary Romanians had to put up with only a couple of hours of black-and-white television each day — and that largely devoted to the doings of the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii . |
| 8 | And that very excess of safety inspired some bright Vadinamians in to a galaxy-class piece of lateral thinking . |
| 9 | These are the first of the super-formats , and although basically compatible with standard VHS , the picture quality is greatly improved . |
| 10 | He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality . |
| 11 | Those shown are inadequate and confusing and if mentally accessible to walkers , would I 'm sure , prove a barrier to the inexperienced hoofer like myself . |
| 12 | The rights of the beneficiaries under a trust , as has already been seen , are interests in property closely analogous to legal interests , and but little inferior to them in security . |
| 13 | His hearing was sharper than most , and as yet unmarred by the years ; probably few of the others heard it . |
| 14 | The method of finance is relatively novel and as yet untried by most contractors but , as is the case when trying to start up any project , potential pitfalls and problems can be circumvented by using consultants , particularly in the early stages to provide off-take forecasts , preliminary designs , financial and legal advice , and subsequently for project management . |
| 15 | Suggests a large long-legged gamebird and though mainly brown at rest shows a striking contrast in flight , with almost as much white as a flying Shelduck ( p. 51 ) . |
| 16 | … there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
| 17 | Thus there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
| 18 | Dyer 's doings are the same as but also different from those investigated by the fretful man he resembles , just as Hawksmoor 's investigative Scotland Yard is the same as but also different from the architects ' department of that name attended by Dyer . |
| 19 | Dyer 's doings are the same as but also different from those investigated by the fretful man he resembles , just as Hawksmoor 's investigative Scotland Yard is the same as but also different from the architects ' department of that name attended by Dyer . |
| 20 | The next time he left the digging he kept away from Fiver and sat looking at the bank , as though entirely concerned with the work . |
| 21 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |