Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This applies not only to the small number of the very old who live in three-generational households , although that throws up some particular issues and problems , it is equally relevant when there are triangular interactions , such as husband , wife and old person , or to situations when the old person lives alone but is closely supported by kin . |
| 2 | Some say the lion was set up to celebrate a victory over the Venetians — although that seems barely credible , a defeated , down-trodden beast being the more usual symbol for a defeated enemy — others that it simply marks the position of the old eastern gate , through which travellers to and from Venice would go . |
| 3 | The average man 's ejaculate contains an estimated 200,000,000 sperm , although this represents just two per cent of the total ejaculate ; the other ninety-eight per cent consists of the mucus-like semen . |
| 4 | sensitive , do n't cos that sounds really bad . |
| 5 | cos that looks pretty good . |
| 6 | If that happens as normal , then the puffins have a better chance of survival . |
| 7 | If that sounds too energetic there 's a 2km run starting at 10am on the same day . |
| 8 | And if that sounds very magnanimous , then do n't forget we 're dealing with another in the line of self-deprecating Irish bands , who have about as much fashion sense and arrogance as The Undertones . |
| 9 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 10 | ‘ You can still be friends — and if that proves too difficult , then you can come home . ’ |
| 11 | If that seems too simple , then let me put what I believe to be a far more cogent argument , By bringing ‘ God ’ into this , are we not merely shifting something off ourselves ? |
| 12 | And then round it all off either by killing someone , or — if that seems too drastic a step — by getting yourself killed . |
| 13 | If this happens then normal contractual remedies are available to the aggrieved party if the statement turns out to be untrue . |
| 14 | If this happens very high pressures may result due , not to the wave itself , but to the pressure of the air compressed between the wave and the cliff . |
| 15 | Ultimately , this may be best achieved by transferring full responsibility for prisons from the states to the central government , or , if this remains politically unfeasible , by building more federal prisons as ‘ models ’ for the remainder ( an engine of reform in other countries with a similar federal structure ) . |
| 16 | Sorry if this sounds hopelessly vague and unhelpful , and unlike my ( I hope ) usual efficient self , but these are trying times . |
| 17 | If this sounds too complicated , do n't be put off . |
| 18 | If this sounds too outrageous then the art department of the local secondary school might take on the design and painting of a mural as a project for older pupils with children from the primary school working as their apprentices . |
| 19 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 20 | If this seems too severe , there is no denying that the development of the industrial co-operative sector has had little reason over the years to feel grateful to the Consumer Movement . |
| 21 | would you er still look at page thirty one please dealing with er , top right under the are there hidden costs ? , the answer to this is definitely no and then there are charges set out there , there 's the freehold security set up there and then the only other costs would be your apartment , local authority rates , individual electricity costs , even if this means too low there 's a freehold security set up there and then the only other costs would be your apartment , local authority rates , individual electricity costs , even if this means too low , small charge for using guest bedroom , use to keep the general running costs as low as possible , and then underneath them there 's a block service apartment costs , all maintenance , warden and management services , freehold security and then personal costs in an estimated weekly total , er did you know that that went into the brochure ? |
| 22 | would you er still look at page thirty one please dealing with er , top right under the are there hidden costs ? , the answer to this is definitely no and then there are charges set out there , there 's the freehold security set up there and then the only other costs would be your apartment , local authority rates , individual electricity costs , even if this means too low there 's a freehold security set up there and then the only other costs would be your apartment , local authority rates , individual electricity costs , even if this means too low , small charge for using guest bedroom , use to keep the general running costs as low as possible , and then underneath them there 's a block service apartment costs , all maintenance , warden and management services , freehold security and then personal costs in an estimated weekly total , er did you know that that went into the brochure ? |
| 23 | If all goes well this could boost its sales by around £2 million a year . |
| 24 | String theories , however , have a bigger problem : they seem to be consistent only if space-time has either ten or twenty-six dimensions , instead of the usual four ! |
| 25 | You need to be familiar with the type of glider you are flying because each needs slightly different angles of bank and behaves differently when side-slipping . |
| 26 | I think from my own personal preference I would very much like to have an understanding of what happens at the interface between solids and liquids , because this affects so many different branches of chemistry and physics _ the understanding of what happens at interfaces will govern the understanding of what makes things stick together , what makes catalysis occur , the nature of rocks even . |
| 27 | While this remains largely true , there is growing awareness , not confined to elite groups , that decision-makers at the national level are unable to solve pressing domestic problems . |
| 28 | Since this represents only one per cent of projected capacity , it will not be of significant help in meeting concern over weapons production . |
| 29 | Much more frequently , notes overlap , one part being sustained while another moves over two or more notes , as in the upper stave of Example 121 . |
| 30 | I need to say , lest this sounds too one-sided , that I leave more positive comments to the conclusion , in which I describe more specifically how we will be attempting to take advantage of those aspects of the National Curriculum which offer hope of progress . |