Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without waiting for The Fat Controller 's reaction to all this , she turned and went back to her own table , where she was greeted with little ‘ Well done 's and furtive shoulder pats from her fellow diners . |
| 2 | Only if an intervention is effective not only in eliminating this factor , but also in transforming the person 's lifestyle such that he or she is removed from this conveyor belt of risk , can the effects of the intervention be expected to be apparent ten or twenty years later . |
| 3 | ‘ We comply with them or we are excluded from these markets . ’ |
| 4 | Often such a panel gives early warning of changes in public opinion where they are consulted over several years . |
| 5 | With such descriptions , actually occurring linguistic data , where they are adduced at all , serve to exemplify category types . |
| 6 | Description , interpretation and judgement are the subjects of separate chapters , where they are considered in more detail . |
| 7 | The result was a general strike early in September 1946 in which police and government workers camped out in the Shwe Dagon Pagoda where they were guarded against any persuasive attempts from authority . |
| 8 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 9 | He has worked nearly all his life for the Woodbridge firm of Notcutts and spent two years as a student at the world-famous Wisley garden centre , where he was guided by former Notcutts managing director Frank Knight . |
| 10 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 11 | where it is seen to this day |
| 12 | French may be studied at Edinburgh not only at all levels of MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) but as a single honours subject ( with a secondary subject taken in the first two years ) ; or as the major or minor subject in a wide variety of joint degrees , where it is combined with another modern European language , or with one of a number of Arts Faculty subjects , or even with subjects ( Business Studies and Law ) from other faculties . |
| 13 | He remembered how the fish lay gaping on its bed of newspaper , the flesh dark-red and subtly ribbed where it was split in half , and Yvonne with her sleeves rolled back and her wrists dipped in blood that smelt of tin . |
| 14 | Thus , it does not apply where the evidence establishes the existence of a collateral contract ; where it can be shown that the document was not intended as a complete record of the contract terms ; where its existence or operation was dependent upon some prior unexpected stipulation ; or where it was procured by some illegality or misrepresentation . |
| 15 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 16 | In his own words he was seeking to get immigration control on a basis where it was firm but where it was administered with some degree of compassion for the individual case ’ . |
| 17 | The redemption of the debenture is either refinanced by another debenture issue or it is repaid from any surplus cash . |
| 18 | But what people notice about Anthony is the way he holds his head down , that he 'll hardly ever look you in the eye , and the manner in which he will suddenly turn his whole head away if ever there is disagreement or he is challenged in some way . |
| 19 | Make sure that yours are fitted with all possible locks and are constructed of unbreakable glass . |
| 20 | Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true . |
| 21 | … you at the back , madam ? … can I take it , then , that I 'm heard in all parts of the house ? " |
| 22 | But you know I still think that I 'm drawn towards that sort of teaching , performing that kind of role erm and that would n't be fulfilled by librarianship at all . |
| 23 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 24 | If this view is correct , I can only conclude that I was saddled with both sets of anxieties and , in addition , that there are more and more adolescent girls today who are finding themselves in the same position . |
| 25 | It was then that I was struck by another passage in Mothers and Daughters : ‘ As the middle- aged daughter develops reasonable expectations of her ageing mother , she will be able to develop reasonable self-expectations in relation to her daughter . |
| 26 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 27 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 28 | I was about to say , Harry , that I was accused by some friends last night of being sanctimonious . |
| 29 | Although she was supported by little more than a third of the electorate ( or 40% or so of those voting ) , there seemed no prospect of ousting her from office . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher is an activist Prime Minister and her Press Office is keen that she is seen as such . |