Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although highly educated and a ‘ technocrat ’ , Li was not a popular figure , and was viewed as an extreme example of ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. advancement by personal contacts . |
| 2 | As often happened when a crowd of actors got together , somebody started playing the piano , and soon they were letting their hair down , doing what somebody called their ‘ party turns ’ . |
| 3 | The public interest would not perhaps be regarded as well served if a fully qualified solicitor was effectively deprived of the opportunity of practising his profession : this may be behind the Scottish decision of Dallas McMillan & Sinclair v Simpson ( 1988 ) SLT 454 where the covenant purported to prevent the outgoing partner from practising as a solicitor within 20 miles of the centre of Glasgow , an area in which roughly half of Scotland 's law firms were said to be located . |
| 4 | The emotional preparatory work , talking through some of these feelings , can take some time to achieve and is as well started before a formal request for admission is completed . |
| 5 | I do n't mind that television is trivial — one might as well mind that a banana is bent — nor do I much object to the BBC appointing a personnel director to implement witlessly trendy policies . |
| 6 | ‘ You might as well argue that a man who knows that he is mad is less to be feared than a man who believes that he is sane . |
| 7 | They could represent a group of pre-echinoderm deuterostomes , as neither stereom nor a true water-vascular system appears to be present . |
| 8 | Many teachers , it must be said , though , are not aware of examinations as either constraining or a resource . |
| 9 | If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde . |