Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is arguable that the friction between locals and newcomers which has been a common feature of village life in recent years is only a temporary problem brought about by the dislocation of established social patterns which have been hard for the social life of the village to digest , and that once the newly arrived population has either taken over entirely or ‘ settled down ’ to a rural existence many of the initial problems will be reconciled . |
| 2 | Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ . |
| 3 | The incident , trivial in itself , of 20 November 1946 , culminated three days later in a terrible bombardment of Haiphong which was a prelude to pitched battles in Tonkin between the Vietminh forces and the French ; and although the usually quoted figure of 6,000 Vietnamese dead in Haiphong may be too high , the ease with which casualties of this order could be inflicted , with a French cruiser joining in at close range , suggested misleadingly that when French forces were fully engaged it would be such a one-sided contest that the Vietminh would learn the appropriate lesson . |
| 4 | They are also culturally — as well as linguistically educational , and if the much needed research into the cultural universality of discourse typology is to take place , the multicultural foreign language classroom provides excellent material . |
| 5 | As a result of this , Palmer had in the back of his mind been thinking about muon catalysed fusion , and when the newly arrived Jones announced his talk , Palmer naturally took notice and went along to listen . |
| 6 | But although the sensationally styled Calibra sets the trend , it is by no means the only exponent of the field . |
| 7 | But since the lowest stated band on the DSP 715 's graphic is 60Hz , I 'm not really convinced by the sub-bass implications accompanying this unit . |