Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sports magazines and shops sell weighted strips of material that you can wear around your wrists or ankles whilst doing other exercise ( such as suppleness exercises or when running ) . |
| 2 | You should keep a written record ( including copies of letters ) of any information you give to us , or your Broker or Agent when renewing this policy . |
| 3 | Exotic nuclei have more protons or neutrons than do stable nuclei , and studies of them provide valuable information on the balance of nuclear forces when atoms deviate from the most favourable ratios of neutrons to protons . |
| 4 | 1982 ) , monogamous males might be expected to compete as intensely for the best mates or territories as do polygynous males for the biggest harems . |
| 5 | With this is mind the Committee voted in favour ( 7:6 ) for the draft rules which classed all members other than Juniors as having full bondholding voting rights and responsibilities . |
| 6 | Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions , they receive no formal allowances . |
| 7 | The investigation conducted by Inkeles and Bauer among Soviet émigrés in the 1950s , for instance , found that the nationality of most respondents had less influence upon their political beliefs and values than did other variables such as social class and education . |
| 8 | The group has access to a greater variety of experiences and skills than does one person . |
| 9 | Le Monde , one of the country 's most profitable publishing concerns producing special supplements and books while printing other publications , has invested a sum conservatively estimated at not less than Fr350m in a state-of-the-art printing press . |
| 10 | It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others … |
| 11 | Chappers has to be up there with Sniffer and Mick where scoring crucial goals is concerned . |
| 12 | Disturbing the Ritual : The adventurers can do this simply by stepping into the circle and attacking the Vampire and his minion , but the circle offers them some protection by the time the adventurers attack : treat Maximilian and Juliane as having 1 AP , all locations , and +10 bonuses to their I scores while within the circle . |
| 13 | Mode 2 ( 'partitioned workload' ) was slightly more sophisticated and enabled both processors to support their respective users and applications while providing mutual back-up . |
| 14 | The Finance Minister , Anne Wibble , introducing the budget , told parliament that the government 's fiscal policy was centred on promoting growth and development while ending economic stagnation . |
| 15 | There is the potential for several wards to share ideas and to develop broader understanding of each others ' specialisms and problems while building valuable resources in the form of teaching aids and expertise . |
| 16 | Are we to understand that all work , when not alienated , is to provide the same freedom for the creative development of mind and feeling as do those pursuits we may choose to follow when our time is our own ? |
| 17 | As with Lacan 's own work , these readings see femininity and masculinity as defining each other . |
| 18 | Better to buy time with covert operations and the steady working of violence , crime and racketeering than to risk vote-endangering controversy . |
| 19 | It freezes salaries and wages while allowing most prices to rise . |
| 20 | Indeed it is hardly too much to speak of jade and gold as embodying distinct standards of value . |
| 21 | Using a 0.7 probability cut off point below which the patient is predicted to die and above which he is predicted to survive at six weeks yields correct classification in 97% ( 71/73 ) of surviving patients , 89% ( 16/18 ) of deaths and 96% ( 87/91 ) of both survival and deaths when assessing specific outcome with the current model . |
| 22 | Using the same cut off point yields a correct classification of 90% ( 66/73 ) of surviving patients , 67% ( 12/18 ) of deaths and 86% ( 78/91 ) of both survivals and deaths when assessing specific outcome with the Pugh model . |
| 23 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |