Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More fundamentally , no one knows why sunspots should occur at all — or perhaps these days we should call them ‘ starspots ’ , since similar areas of ( comparatively ) low energy emission have now been detected on the faces of other stars . |
| 2 | Is n't it possible that you mistook the two or possibly three voices you heard , for in fact Mr and Mrs and . |
| 3 | Goggles : Available either as safety spectacles or fully enclosing goggles they are for use where there is the risk of high speed particle shed or fumes that may be injurious to the eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ Whilst we support land reclamation , urban redevelopment and housing improvements , and recognise they can improve the quality of life for many people in Wales , unless these activities are designed to achieve more than just aesthetic goals they may actually increase environmental damage through energy consumption , waste generation , increased resource demands and traffic flows ’ , said Dr Neil Caldwell , CPRW 's Director . |
| 5 | Legally , the refugees have been expelled from East Germany , meaning that under current rules they can not return . |
| 6 | We began this section by stating that under certain conditions we could show that free enterprise or free markets led to a Pareto-efficient allocation . |
| 7 | Mr Major argued that as good Europeans we should tie it to the strong German mark to lick inflation and sustain recovery . |
| 8 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |
| 9 | They feel that as innocent parties they are being cheated . |
| 10 | I think that as professional drivers we would all w look at that and s and see that Er I mean been out with very many lorry drivers and er that is the way that I 've sort of been with the majority of the guys that I 've been in . |
| 11 | We would argue that as socialist feminists it is important to challenge owner-occupation as a form of tenure . |
| 12 | It is true that as human beings we may be able to empathize with social work clients who are short of money or bereaved as we probably have been in these situations ourselves . |
| 13 | But the ‘ truth ’ is not the point at issue ; what matters is that as human beings we necessarily engage in an interpretative process when we encounter others , as they do with us . |
| 14 | If that sounds a lot , bear in mind that over 10 years you 're only paying 22p per night . |
| 15 | Le Rue the band are one of the tightest and most cohesive units I 've seen . |
| 16 | She knew there would be tea , coffee and most other things she would need for tonight . |
| 17 | However , at the time they were the best and most modern cutters we had sailed on and we were all very proud of the fact . |
| 18 | It will be appreciated that for most kinds of work and most working organisations it is not feasible to employ specialist ergonomists . |
| 19 | By comparison with Alexander I and most eighteenth-century tsars he had been remarkably inactive beyond his frontiers . |
| 20 | Fairs and feasts have survived the centuries in an amazing variety of ways , some of which I have already written about , but at West Witton in Wensleydale there survives one of the strangest and most interesting events I have come across . |
| 21 | Really , Muggeridge was one of the worst and most transparent liars he had ever encountered . |
| 22 | You can usually tell a good Fender before you plug it in , and I 've got to say that acoustically the SRV is one of the loudest and most solid-sounding Strats I 've come across ( and in that I include non-trem Strats , which usually sound better under these conditions ) . |
| 23 | For both left and right visual fields it takes longer to reject as " illegal " , in a lexical decision task , pseudo-homophones ( letter strings that do not constitute words but sound like real words , e.g. " bloo " , " rayne " ) than letter strings that look like real words but do not sound like real words . |
| 24 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 25 | In her preoccupation with other , larger and less accessible mysteries she had been too certain of the supreme value of her endeavours to attach great value to the consequent deprivations ; but now she remembered also how Tom Horrocks had lightly berated her celibate condition while they skated with Edwin on the frozen lake . |
| 26 | The most senior post is usually principal lecturer ( though some polytechnics have professors ) ; the other posts are senior lecturer , lecturer grade II and lecturer grade I. The ratio of more-senior to more junior posts allowed in a college depends on the proportions of advanced and less advanced courses it teaches . |
| 27 | First , in an organisation with an all white or largely white workforce , network recruitment will help to ensure that this stays the case , particularly at a time when large numbers of white workers are unemployed and prepared to re-enter the comparatively poorly paid and less pleasant jobs they deserted in the past few years . |
| 28 | The tsar was prepared , on occasion , to reproach German nobles for allowing the condition of the Estonian and Latvian peasantry to deteriorate , and in educational and especially religious affairs he sanctioned attempts to bring the Baltic provinces into line with the rest of the empire . |
| 29 | In a recent account of these groups of mammalian predator Andrews & Evans ( 1983 ) concluded that the damage to the bone of their small mammal prey was so severe that except in rare and easily recognizable cases they could not be significant agents in the accumulation of small mammal remains . |
| 30 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |