Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In societies where there is a strong emphasis on certain goals , but where the means for obtaining them are unavailable to most citizens , the result is a situation of anomie ; a situation , in other words , where the rules and standards governing behaviour have lost their influence and force and are liable to be ignored , and where shared norms or rules no longer determine and direct behaviour . |
| 2 | The mind can generate its own creative images and it will show us colours and visions that will bewilder our eyes and take us to regions beyond the schemata , where words no longer have meaning . |
| 3 | Even where parents no longer live together they each continue to be responsible for their children and will need to decide who the children should live with for most of the time and how often the other parent should see the children . |
| 4 | These sections do not cover any claim arising directly or indirectly from any death , injury , illness , expense or other liability attributable to Human Immunodeficiency Virus ( HIV ) and/or HIV related illness including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ( AIDS ) and/or any Mutant derivative or variations thereof however caused . |
| 5 | Where budgets no longer allow support to be given to all services that an authority wishes to procure , decisions will have to be made as to where any cuts will fall . |
| 6 | As the 1956 Act applies only to buildings , s.1(1) of the 1968 Act extended the offence to include dark smoke emitted from ‘ industrial and trade premises ’ defined , for the purpose of that Act , by s.1(5) as ‘ premises used for any industrial or trade purposes or premises not so used on which matter is burnt in connection with any industrial or trade process ’ . |
| 7 | A man feels so insignificant against its vastness that confidences no longer seem something to keep to oneself . |
| 8 | So if you look at individuals making erm decisions about punishment or some decision where there 's a consequence or an element of risk , you 'll find that groups quite often tend to go for more extreme behaviour than any one of the individuals in the group . |
| 9 | It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England . |
| 10 | It meant that manufacturers no longer needed to seek their power where there was fast-running water , especially in the higher reaches of lonely dales , but found it near the canals which brought coal to them cheaply , or directly upon the coalfields themselves . |
| 11 | He found that drivers no longer tried to overtake him and that policemen stopped traffic to let him pass . |
| 12 | Anthropological modes of enquiry are therefore programmed to steer us through the assumptions of police society , so that contradictions no longer remain incomprehensible . |
| 13 | As problem-centred evaluation is rather less common than methods so far discussed , an attempt will be made to locate discussion within a theoretical framework , and to illustrate it with examples of studies which have actually been carried out . |
| 14 | Now that traders no longer have to meet face to face , and can communicate by telephone or computer , the exchange is not so easy to identify . |
| 15 | Although executives ' roles span all these categories , the evidence highlights the fact that companies too often concentrate on the internal , financially-based operational information to the detriment of strategic and change-management information . |
| 16 | So it seems that Laboulbeniales not only show host specificity and position-on-host specificity , but may also display sex-of-host specificity . |
| 17 | Many in the Latin American/Caribbean Group of staff , in discussing this paper , disagreed strongly that scholarships usually efficiently strengthen the poor . |
| 18 | Luis Vargas , an Archuar Indian , said that Indians no longer wanted British Gas on their land and were no longer prepared to negotiate with the company , " British Gas has done a lot of damage in our forest " he said . |
| 19 | Despite the fact that plants also apparently survived massive quantities of consumption , they counter-attacked well . |
| 20 | Although Simon might declare that classes no longer exist ( ’ denims have destroyed classes , ) , he , like his brother , had no hesitation in defining his social position as ‘ lower-middle class ’ . |
| 21 | The great change that has occurred is that retailers no longer go out into the market place and buy what is offered to them by manufacturers . |
| 22 | Why is it that Europeans never quite fall victim to British women 's curse — the puffy pear shape ? |
| 23 | What people do n't seem to realise is that families outside still have to support prisoners . |
| 24 | It remains an orientation that Britons not only find congenial but also take as the source of a certain pride . |
| 25 | We should question the centrality of appearance to sex and suggest that lesbians no longer make snap assessments of each other on the basis of how we look . |
| 26 | In truth one suspects that audiences quite simply enjoyed these films for their pace and wit but Cagney was certainly adding another dimension . |
| 27 | Now that names no longer get the tax breaks that were long the market 's main attraction , it is an outdated nonsense . |
| 28 | This meant that museums not only became progressively poorer , but also less in control of their purchasing policies . |
| 29 | A counter tot his viewpoint is that patients often only realise how unwell they were in retrospect after commencing a gluten free diet and had come to accept quite marked ill health as normal . |
| 30 | He added that valuations so far appeared not to take into consideration the question of tied cottages leading to an enormous jump in the bills that estates and individuals were likely to face . |