Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Right Hon John Patten MP , Minister of State for the Home Office ( right ) , comments that , ‘ Victim Support has deservedly grown fast because it meets a long-standing and deep need that had been neglected for far too long . |
| 2 | What kind of slump is it when England 's most expensive striker has yet to go more than two games without a goal ? |
| 3 | Considering the technical complexities required , televised science fiction has frequently earned less than proportionately balanced critical response . |
| 4 | No other horse has yet won more than four races . |
| 5 | Why is it that no movement of spiritual renewal has ever lasted longer than the third generation ? |
| 6 | The programme has never done better than it is doing now , it is going great guns . ’ |
| 7 | Midfield dynamo Dave Gilbert and striker Mendonca linked well on the left , but the visitors ' defence held firm , ensuring Grimsby 's forward thrusts rarely progressed further than the midfield . |
| 8 | They are quick learners , and some cocks go on to vanquish more than a hundred opponents before they themselves miscalculate and die . |
| 9 | Good words do not last long until they amount to something … |
| 10 | I have several times spoken of an " instantaneous effect upon B as a result of a measurement made on A. Is this not in flagrant contradiction to Einstein 's rule that signals do not travel faster than the velocity of light ? |
| 11 | Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five . |
| 12 | And when the 50/40 rear seat back is lowered the seat does n't tip forward so the extra space has a sloping floor . |
| 13 | But Sauvignon does not come better than this and to my mind the del Cero Sauvignon has more grace , character and length than the much-vaunted Cloudy Bay Sauvignon from New Zealand , which is comparably priced . |
| 14 | Liverpool Bay partners LASMO , Hamilton and Monument have already spent more than £O million on the project and gas has been sold to Powergen , one of the UK 's major power generators . |
| 15 | Cuts in the defence industry have already seen more than three thousand people lose their jobs at the Dowty Group and Smiths Industries in Gloucestershire over the alst three years . |
| 16 | Each project has had problems with builders -buildings have always taken longer than anticipated . |
| 17 | After the introduction of the National Health Insurance Act in 1958 the private sector expanded sharply to cover more than 80 per cent of Japanese medical services . |
| 18 | Work has not started yet because our tree feller has been heavily involved in clearance work after the recent storms . |
| 19 | Charlton and Grilly went on to play together as Palace 's full-backs for four seasons , and it was no coincidence that in two of them Palace made serious , if unavailing , attempts to restore 2nd Division status to Selhurst Park , finishing as runners-up in both 1928–29 and 1930–31 . |
| 20 | ‘ In the eyes of government officials , therefore , ’ he says , ‘ businessmen do not appear simply as the representatives of a special interest , as representatives of interest groups do . |
| 21 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
| 22 | And the stewards did not perform only when Carolan was speaking . |
| 23 | In circumstances such as these , it would be open to a jury to find that the girl had not consented even though no violence was used or threatened and despite her knowledge and understanding of the nature of the act . |
| 24 | I have been feeling so groggy lately I just want to ensure the plan does n't go awry if anything happens to me … " |
| 25 | A flock of American eagles have successfully made more than one takeover . |
| 26 | ( b ) a student whose failure to satisfy the three-year UK residence requirement outlined above arises only because the student , or the student 's spouse or parent , was temporarily employed outside the UK . |
| 27 | ( c ) a student who is a national of a member state of the European Community , or who is the son or daughter of such a national , whose failure to satisfy the three-year EC residence requirement outlined above arises only because the student , or the student 's spouse or parent , was temporarily employed outside the EC . |
| 28 | b ) a student whose failure to satisfy the three-year UK residence requirement outlined above arises only because the student , or the student 's spouse or parent , was temporarily employed outside the UK ; |
| 29 | ( c ) a student who is a national of a member state of the European Community , or who is the son or daughter of such a national , whose failure to satisfy the three-year EC residence requirement outlined above arises only because the student , or the student 's spouse or parent , was temporarily employed outside the EC ; |
| 30 | Olympia has perhaps done more than any other company to stimulate interest in the highways and byways of russian music , as is typified by six of their most recent releases . |