Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 2 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 3 | From Figure 4.3 it can be seen that shareholders of Jaguar have done very well since privatisation — especially as a result of the bid from Ford . |
| 4 | This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility . |
| 5 | Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years . |
| 6 | At the moment , as far as I know , there is on the market no computer that really can have a large memory and is also within the price range for the ordinary primary school or home , but if these new falling prices of memory do come as quickly as some people are predicting , then that could make a huge difference . |
| 7 | You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism . |
| 8 | The coils themselves should consist of 500 turns of 0.2mm enamelled wire scramble wound as neatly as possible over the core , the second winding crossing over the top of the first at right angles . |
| 9 | It was unlikely that any English advance-parties would in fact have got thus far as yet , but they went prepared . |