Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK SHARE prices fell sharply yesterday afternoon , taking their cue from Wall Street , where stocks also slumped heavily as US investors took fright at President Clinton 's threatened tax increases and spending cuts . |
| 2 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Bear in mind that rabbits always net better when they are running downhill , so take advantage of that if possible . |
| 4 | The pattern of sex differences was that girls generally scored better than the boys on the money and number pattern items and boys on the measures . |
| 5 | Regarding access to health care , we meet the fact that women usually live longer than men . |
| 6 | Ministers ' remuneration had improved with the century : in 1851 a Primitive Methodist minister with three children received £71 a year and Baptists generally received less than £80 ; within Congregationalism the divergence was too great to allow for any average figure . |
| 7 | A vagrant was discovered yesterday in Linz , the skin on his face and hands severely burnt almost as though he had been in a fire . |
| 8 | If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) . |
| 9 | ‘ But players never say never when there is still something to fight for . |