Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few can deliver high notes of such ringing clarity or trills so impeccably controlled , and she has a chest register many contraltos would envy . |
| 2 | well I mean the , the agent has n't or has n't yet sued , but I was n't really putting it like that , I was asking you whether it is your case as in presently stand looking at the defence you 've raised to whether or not you have failed to perform your legal obligations under clause nine . |
| 3 | ASSESSMENT/ — indicates whether the given user has accepted , rejected or has not yet assessed the DC . |
| 4 | the LIFESPAN user name of the assessor , and whether the assessor accepted or rejected the DC , or has not yet assessed it . |
| 5 | They are : — ( a ) mankind must have a ‘ god ’ , and ( b ) there is no evidence that the kind of incontrovertible ‘ god ’ that is needed actually exists in an eternal , ready-made form , or has ever thus existed . |
| 6 | Her first bit of advice , especially to older women , is to go through the wardrobe , ruthlessly discarding anything that no longer fits , no longer looks good on us , or has long since seen better days . |
| 7 | A transfer of registered land made otherwise than for valuable consideration is subject to all minor interests ( see Land Registration Act 1925 , ss20(4) and 23(5) ) ; the taking of the express " beneficial owner " covenants gives the wife the additional protection that if in fact the property is subject to any claim or demand not previously revealed , not only would any right of action in respect thereof against the husband be better founded , but the implied covenant for further assurance ( implied in the beneficial owner covenants but not in the covenant as " trustee " ) will require the husband to execute and do all assurances and things necessary for further assuring the subject matter of the transfer . |
| 8 | Meaning may be expressed by specific Chinese characters ( Shou , for example , indicates long life or good luck ) , or by the particular animal , bird or plant most closely associated with each quality or fate . |
| 9 | Usually a limited number of offers can be rejected but there is no guarantee that a subsequent offer will be an improvement , so in many rural districts applicants may have to make the best of either inappropriate housing or housing not ideally located with regard to their workplaces or existing patterns of use of facilities . |
| 10 | Stories abound of his having landed on a handkerchief in blizzards in order to take people to hospital or to bring in desperately needed supplies . |
| 11 | And if , and this is not a theoretical point , it 's happened in another union , if the majority or a large number of people in that sector , on that committee are not working or have not recently worked in the sector , then tensions will begin to arise , concerning those members who are working at the moment , and say hey , hold on a minute , perhaps people working in the industry should make these hard decisions . |
| 12 | Whereas those who eschew bearing , or have too often found means to abort it may prove , like your wife , to be barren . ’ |
| 13 | If you have , or have only just removed it , you will see a double wave as the needles respond to the punchcard . |
| 14 | In a similar vein , Paul Gilroy develops his critique of antiracist strategies that remain too firmly embedded within the ( municipal ) state . |
| 15 | Wimpol , the newest member of the Division , although trading profitably also suffered fierce competition in its traditional markets of the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico . |
| 16 | It has to fend for itself , out of a budget that has just about risen with inflation in recent years . |
| 17 | The group , however , was then almost unrecognisable from the one that has just recently burst back into the FTSE 100 . |
| 18 | And is there anyone you know that has just recently got married cos these are areas that obviously |
| 19 | Airtours THE WORLD IN ITS LAP Rumours of a price war are unlikely to take the wind out of the sails of a tour operator that has not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but increased market share as well |
| 20 | Kenya , Uganda and Tanzania , the countries bordering the lake , have been reluctant to invest in preserving a fishing industry that has not yet suffered economically from the ecological damage . |
| 21 | A further revolution that has not yet taken hold widely in Japan is that of networking personal computers and word processors , and one American working for a large Japanese company in Tokyo complained to Reuter of hours spent every day hunting down paper documents written on dedicated word processors and then stuffing them laboriously into facsimile machines — when an efficient personal computer network could save all the effort . |
| 22 | For various reasons that has not yet happened . |
| 23 | He also refers to research since Saussure that has not necessarily attempted to construct a semiology but has ‘ referred to the problem of meaning : psycho-analysis , structuralism , eidetic psychology , some new types of literary criticism ’ ( Barthes 1973 : 111 ) . |
| 24 | What will they do to people if this is what they do to a dumb animazl that has n't even annoyed them . |
| 25 | And now they tell us we might even have to go to some barn that has n't even got proper floorboards for us to live under as Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) intended . |
| 26 | She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that has n't quite worked as her generation dreamed . |
| 27 | This is because an egg that has already almost reached the womb could still be implanted after the operation . |
| 28 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 29 | There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 30 | In part it is nervousness , but mostly is youthful exuberance , an exuberance that has so far made his career and yet paradoxically also threatens it . |