Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine .
2 The late Walter Gratwicke remarked that although apparently standard Brush cars , their detailed dimensions differed from any others supplied by that firm .
3 Although innovation in particular cases had fostered very high population densities , it was the absence of population growth resulting from both the slave trade and the incidence of disease that provided little general incentive to intensify systems which were an adequate response to the difficulties of the environment .
4 Goldstein ( 1963 ) has shown that either the enthalpy or the entropy may be used to derive an equation of the WLF type , and that if either excess enthalpy He or excess entropy Se were used to determine Tg then whereas if excess volume Ve determines Tg we should expect .
5 For example , it has seemed self evident that if less advanced disease has a better prognosis , the earlier the disease is detected , the better the outcome .
6 The majority of these deaths occur in the first hour and it is important to realise that if early ventricular fibrillation is survived the ultimate outcome is unaffected .
7 Meyer of Leipzig preferred to think that if sufficiently diligent search was made natural sources of jade would be found in Europe itself .
8 Most women would agree that if only minimal pain relief is used the birth is much more focused and the baby may be better off too .
9 It is quite conceivable , however , that if more specific recording took place , a picture might emerge that a particular housing estate is suffering from damp .
10 The special difficulty here is that since relatively little essay structure is signalled by the question itself , in your first paragraph you will have to make very clear to your examiner what shape you are imposing on your discussion .
11 Adduct levels were found to be higher in smokers than non-smokers and adduct levels were significantly higher after truncal vagotomy and drainage than after highly selective vagotomy .
12 Right , as you can imagine things might get a little bit nasty , we 're incorporating two er , two hypothesis and although very simple produce algebra that er , that 's a bit nasty .
13 The reserve powers are extremely important , and if grossly inadequate provision were made for pensions I would expect my right Hon. and learned Friend to use them .
14 And if only fleeting mastery is possible for exceptionally advantaged presidents , what of the generality , of those who possess few resources ?
15 Strain them ( keep the liquid — it will make a good basis for a vegetable soup ) , put them in a bowl and while still hot stir in plenty of olive oil , sliced onion , garlic , parsley , and a little vinegar .
16 Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower .
17 The Germans , however , were determined to resist the Allied advance northwards , and after early rapid progress the American and Commonwealth forces ran into increasingly fierce fighting , particularly around the mountain fortress of Monte Cassino and the Allied bridgehead at Anzio .
18 As much and as deep coherent thought as he was capable of .
19 The foreign intelligence operations were now to be conducted by a new and as yet unnamed state agency separate from the KGB ( although Primakov was also named first deputy chair of the KGB ) , and would concentrate on national security and on monitoring the international drugs trade and terrorism .
20 BORDON 'S new and as yet unnamed choir are looking forward to an illustrious future .
21 After adopting amendments to the congress agenda and hearing the report by outgoing party first secretary Mieczyslaw Rakowski , delegates on Jan. 27 decided to suspend the PUWP congress and resume meetings forthwith as the founding congress of a new and as yet unnamed party of the left .
22 The notion that clients could be rated on a dimension of how worried they were about their symptoms of stress ( physical , cognitive , behavioural ) as opposed to how worried they were about factors which caused those symptoms ( Stress 's , Life Events , etc. ) is an interesting and as yet unexplored area .
23 This vast , and as yet unconfronted burden of loan capital is the single biggest factor in the present world debt crisis , since it chewed up vast quantities of money , raising interest rates , and keeping them high .
24 But where more intensive support is required , over a longer period , he or she needs to be able to put the patient into contact with a relevant mutual aid group , befriending scheme , counselling service , or psychiatric crisis support scheme .
25 Informal , even oral , arrangements may be acceptable where reconnaissance work is being undertaken , but where more costly exploration work is contemplated the company should seek a written agreement with the mineral owner .
26 But after early electoral success that fledgling party was crushed by Mrs Gandhi , and Khan , like many others , survived politically by joining her Congress party .
27 Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness .
28 John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ .
29 A. ‘ That the Directors be and they are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot relevant securities ( within the meaning of Section 20 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 ) up to an amount equal to the authorised but as yet unissued share capital of the Company at the close of business on the date of the passing of this resolution .
30 And more especially if you regard yourself as an artist of great but as yet undiscovered potential but who is forced by impecunious circumstances to provide the musical entertainment at wedding receptions in The Bronx .
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