Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To play the social contract game successfully , therefore , when the prescriptions of the contract are culturally rather than genetically specified , an animal would have to think of others as having motivations similar to its own , so that it could foresee their future behaviour , and it would have to communicate symbolically . |
| 2 | But the buildings he developed during his heyday are still there and the federal government is keen to find buyers for them . |
| 3 | At least outside the hard sciences , words which are closely related in meaning in the context of a subject search are often morphologically and etymologically unrelated ( " alcoholism " and " drunkenness " , " communism " and " marxism " ) . |
| 4 | The major difficulty with The Confidential Clerk , however , is that its techniques of stage action are so thoroughly and obviously conventional that anything Eliot cares to place within them is diminished . |
| 5 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 6 | According to Gandhi , ahi sā in its negative form involves doing no injury to any living being either physically or mentally . |
| 7 | Her eyes , her nose and her mouth were all round and definite and soft , and her hair surrounded her head like a designer 's hat , Afro-styled and aggressive . |
| 8 | The Saunders deal is now off unless Villa chairman Doug Ellis increases his offer . |
| 9 | You arrange it so that this long side is vertically up and down the body , right , in that direction . |
| 10 | Add to this the pessimism and fear of becoming old , and the result is too often that many older people can become non-participating social individuals , who feel increasingly isolated and cut off from all that is happening around them . |
| 11 | Jumping up off a seat is easy enough because almost any action will make things better . |
| 12 | Fifteenth at the moment six days but spring is really just when new things begin to grow and they 're definitely beginning to grow now . |
| 13 | When sailing in offshore winds , however , this rule is more often than not proved right , particularly in coastal bays . |
| 14 | Constitutional rule is more ostensibly and controversially exercised as Head of the Commonwealth . |
| 15 | Connections say the £20,000 confrontation is still on and TV coverage could be on the cards . |
| 16 | It will also handle both little and big endian byte ordering so as to be able to run personal computer operating systems such as Windows NT as well as Unix , although the company denied that it had any plans to support NT on it — the capability is simply there if anyone wants it in the future , the company said . |
| 17 | This type of fence is very quickly and easily erected in the second and subsequent years if the materials are carefully put away ; it is the initial preparation and setting up that takes the time . |
| 18 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ The fear is always there that you wo n't get back in . ’ |
| 20 | If the appreciation is high enough and the price is possible then a purchase results . |
| 21 | In at least two countries , Kenya and Botswana , such a review is already underway and CPE papers in Kenya already begin to show considerable improvement over those analysed by Somerset in 1974 . |
| 22 | The actual output when the switch is alternately on and off is therefore clearly an average value somewhere between these two extremes ; or , in an ideal world , the output is a function of the ratio of T O subN ; to T O F F . |
| 23 | ‘ You sit there and tell me that you can see men or ghosts or apparitions that no one else can see ; you deny all evidence that the man or ghost or apparition is actually elsewhere and therefore can not be here ; and I am prejudiced ? |
| 24 | Information flow in TRACE is very elegantly and easily controlled , but the system is , in some ways , far less ambitious than the three previous systems . |
| 25 | Jobs ' holding is now less than 50% , at 46.1% . |
| 26 | In so far as any one institution is responsible for this basic stage of child socialization — literally , making social — then that institution is more often than not in our society the nuclear family . |
| 27 | Gary Speed was close twice and when Deane looked like bullocking through , David Burrow 's tackle was so desperate that the left back was booked . |
| 28 | Investment was sharply down and was estimated to represent only 9 per cent of gross domestic product . |
| 29 | Ken 's enthusiasm never diminished and up until his recent heart trouble his work rate for the club was never less than 114 per cent . |
| 30 | Returning the same way half-an-hour later the car was still there and this time there were faint signs of life inside accompanied by pathetic cries for hemp . |