Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still the fact remains that few women in television are seen as suitable to handle the major political interviews ; to chair important political debates or even be awarded the senior presenter 's job on News programmes — whatever the channel . |
| 2 | The sentence can only be assigned the right truth conditions , or alternatively be given the correct semantic representation , if the pragmatic significance of and in this sentential context ( namely the " and then " interpretation ) is taken into account before doing the semantics . |
| 3 | Tenants were to be transformed into owner-occupiers and thereby be given a property stake in the new society . |
| 4 | Sitting up straight-backed on her stool , she could flatter two men at once and still be watching a third in a mirror ; she could keep tabs on the whole shifting choreography at once . |
| 5 | Having Sandra there did increase his awareness that a person could look fabulous and still be harbouring a darkness inside them , and it increased his suspicion of Charity . |
| 6 | The actor can play a different person each month and still be considered a good actor . |
| 7 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 8 | The winner will train at a top agency , have a camera test and then be offered the chance to sign up as a professional model . |
| 9 | National sentiments , instincts , feelings , etc. might be defended , and indeed be given a ‘ rational ’ ( non-instinctual , etc. ) justification in terms of biology , social function or whatever ( Seidel , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The directors of the company decided that the building would not only serve as its headquarters , but also be renamed the John Laird Centre to acknowledge the contribution of the Laird family to the area . ’ |
| 11 | She might as well be wearing a notice . |
| 12 | She might as well be pumping a bicycle ! ’ |
| 13 | But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction . |