Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 2 | They also appeared to smell and taste ‘ damp ’ , probably due to baking technology which allows far more water to be added than in the traditional method in order to produce artificial volume and a longer shelf life . |
| 3 | ‘ I have to play with pain-killing injections and I 'm not able to train except for a short time doing set-pieces on a Friday . ’ |
| 4 | he is an officer or employee of that company or a related company who has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties ; or |
| 5 | he is in a professional or business relationship with that company or a related company and has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties |
| 6 | Why wait until after a general election ? |
| 7 | Both insisted that any bilateral talks should wait until after the international conference , for which a date had at last been set : President Roosevelt issued a statement on 4 September inviting the nations of the world to a conference on international civil aviation to be held in Chicago in November . |
| 8 | Your principles and hard held prejudices will be respected if for no other reason than one of simple commercial sense : you probably would n't do a good job creating the advertisement even if you tried , because you actively disbelieve in the product or proposition . |
| 9 | In Extract 7 , from B-4 , on the other hand , the overlapping talk does not commence until after the first part of Brenda 's Creole stretch . |
| 10 | Leila and Quincx are tackling if from the wrong angle . |
| 11 | In any examination of the supposed detrimental effects of social policy on economic growth , the tax system must be included if for no other reason than that social policy consumes around half of all public expenditure today and therefore substantially affects rates of taxation . |
| 12 | She had mentioned a father who had recently died , but he naturally had no idea that he looked like him or , at any rate , what Tom Tremayne had looked like as a young man . |
| 13 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 14 | ‘ Pieter Huistra , Dale Gordon and Oleg Kuznetsov are n't included because of the three foreigner rule but we still have four non-Scots , so one will have to make way . |
| 15 | This was included because of the different sensitivity of the top and bottom of the optical RAM . |
| 16 | Of the total loss , £398,000,000 occurred because of a continuing influx of pollution- and asbestos-related claims in the USA ; Coleridge said that " huge uncertainty continues to surround the outcome on pollution claims " . |
| 17 | The result of the tests was to illustrate that the failure of the right stabiliser on G-BEBP occurred because of an inherent inability of what was believed to be a fail-safe structure to carry the flight loads subsequent to the fracture of the rear spar top chord ( a primary load bearing structure ) ; this was a feature of the basic design and construction rather than some factor specific to G-BEBP . |
| 18 | The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 occurred because of the Japanese desire to establish a presence in the kingdom of Korea and the Chinese attempt to thwart this ambition . |
| 19 | Job losses additional to ‘ structural shifts ’ occurred because of the relative status , and often age of product , of branch factories within their respective multi-plant firms , and only rarely because of their absolute location in Britain . |
| 20 | This interaction occurred because of the very fragmentation experienced by the country . |
| 21 | If you were strong you would put up with it , even if you had to cough and splutter because of the bad air around you . |
| 22 | ( S. ) 521 ) This was a premeditated attack instituted because of a financial grievance which existed in the mind of the attacker . |
| 23 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 24 | SCO said it felt no need to formally resign because of the loose construction of the initiative . |
| 25 | Hammam said Jones was a Sheffield United player at the time the video was compiled and that Wimbledon were unjustly being made to suffer because of the suspended sentence . |
| 26 | Many of the people were dying because of a terrible drought and famine . |
| 27 | The humans are slowly dying because of the radioactive dust caused by a human war . |
| 28 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 29 | Reuters Agency reported that Thilo Bode , manager of Greenpeace Germany , told reporters ‘ that campaigns would have to be dropped because of a dramatic fall in donations from the public . ’ |
| 30 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |