Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One owner after another makes the amused discovery that these simple objects will keep the playful cat or kitten occupied much longer than any fancy toy . |
| 2 | Unless wages rise more slowly or output picks up faster than seems likely , Germany faces higher inflation and a growing deficit in foreign trade . |
| 3 | Neither the Laws nor the 1991–92 New Zealand first-class regulations say that , and of course it was strongly in the interests of his association 's team that play resumed as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Sony , the system 's developer , reckons that pictures carry more efficiently than print the increasing weight of information people have to assimilate . |
| 5 | These researchers presented a group of subjects with a verbal dichotic listening task and noted that subjects gave more rightward than leftward eye movements as well as showing the usual right ear advantage on the dichotic task . |
| 6 | And it 's only if there is no spouse that matters go rather more as might expect , namely firstly always the children or the issue if they are n't any of those to your parents brothers an sis er issue of parents therefore brothers sisters nephews and nieces . |
| 7 | For this reason it would appear likely that bones modified as greatly as these would be uncommon in the fossil record , and the predators that produce them unlikely to be important contributors to fossil bone assemblages . |
| 8 | There is even evidence to suggest that elephants existed as far as the Upper Euphrates basin as late as the first millennium B.C. Syrian ivory contributed to the supplies available to New Kingdom Egypt and at the same time provided the material for the flourishing school of ivory workers based on Tyre , the products of which enriched the civilizations of the east Mediterranean and Assyria . |
| 9 | Sometimes she thought that things went much better when Liza happened to be out of the room and she was alone with John . |
| 10 | Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S. |
| 11 | What we have to see is that Christ died not just as a self sacrifice not just because of injustice but he died as the atonement , to pay the price , for our sin . |
| 12 | I think they 're under a great pressure and you know th I think it 's erm you know , quite amazing really , that people survive as well as they do , given the pressures they 're that they are under . |
| 13 | The state of the track meant that trains got not further than Staveley Town and final lifting took place using a single wagon , pulled by a mobile crane . |
| 14 | But modern technology now makes perfect repair work possible , so Leonard came back even though he now had a lucrative television career and had astutely invested his fortune . |
| 15 | So it 's not surprising that toddlers act so explosively when placed in a strange situation . |
| 16 | Although Félix slept more soundly than we did — and snored and swore in his sleep — for the three nights he stayed , Jean-Claude and I could not feel comfortable about making love . |
| 17 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 18 | Allegra 's death is only one of the numerous and heart-rending deaths of young children in this book — which should dispose of the comforting myth that mothers suffered less acutely when child mortality was so high that death could be no surprise . |
| 19 | It is important to remember that Britain fared less badly than the USA and some of its Continental neighbours , and that even adjusted for unemployment , real wages continued to increase on average until the early 1930s ( figure 4.2 , see Dimsdale 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Lisa looked up , and although Folly swung away almost immediately it was too late . |
| 21 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 22 | This distinction applies to the things that men make as well as to the actions which men perform . |
| 23 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 24 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 25 | Although diesels cost more initially than their petrol-engined equivalents , they are economical to run and hold their second-hand value relatively well . |
| 26 | One obvious difference was that Ruby worked more calmly than on Monday . |
| 27 | The designers found that W performed significantly better than P. They write : |
| 28 | And Glentoran went even closer when Gary Smyth hit the inside of the post after Keenan had fumbled a Hillis cross . |
| 29 | V33 is a low-odour , solvent-free Total Treatment for Wood which has been introduced from France by Kent-based Liveron Waxes. this water-based treatment cures and prevents fungus and insect attacks as effectively as any other treatment on the market , but is much safer as it contains no Lindane , PCP or TBTO . |
| 30 | Slee expresses it very clearly : They need help in wrestling with the questions of identity , truth and commitment which the contemporary pluralism of beliefs and values poses more sharply than ever before and which are therefore very real and pressing questions for children of the secular century . |