Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems the weakness has arisen not only because of the excess capacity built during the Central Electricity Generating Board 's dying years , but also because the competition for business between the regional distribution companies , the generators , the Scottish companies , Nuclear Electric and the French is so strong , and also because of recession . |
| 2 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 3 | With a drop of 42% from the peak reached in 1990 the German Expressionist Index has held up better than the more volatile sectors of French and American painting . |
| 4 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 5 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 6 | Kevin McKenna , from Manchester Wythenshaw , said : ‘ No industry has failed as comprehensively as the prison industry . |
| 7 | I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case . |
| 8 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 9 | Our business investment has increased more rapidly than in any other major economy except Japan . |
| 10 | Pond needs cleaning out again as well . |
| 11 | You have already noticed in your SAS practice of up-to-time sentences that sometimes the mouth seems to open more noticeably than at others . |
| 12 | The domain-specific dictionary appears to perform slightly better than the general dictionary . |
| 13 | Enya plans to tour here soon while Leo and his wife , Baba , are hoping to take a holiday in Cleveland . |
| 14 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 15 | As the whole system is headed by a man , it is likely that the village has to move more frequently than if it were headed by a woman . |
| 16 | Some link with the doctrine of the matrimonial offence has been retained by the further provision that the court may not decide that a marriage has broken down irretrievably unless the petitioner can establish one or more of the five following circumstances : |
| 17 | For the investor , however , multiplicity creates opportunity , and the next Bookish Portfolio stands to prosper so long as the creative process is allowed to flower . |
| 18 | The NUS has announced a radical set of new voting rules that the ruling executive committee hopes to introduce as soon as possible . |
| 19 | Yet they , too , complain of aches and pains , of being squeezed by a ‘ credit crunch ’ under which borrowing has become harder even while interest rates have been falling . |
| 20 | Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd admitted : ‘ The announcement has come out earlier than we intended . ’ |
| 21 | The Group has taken on more than 30 schools in the mining communities in an effort to improve the standard of education among the disadvantaged groups of the community . |
| 22 | You may not be thirsty , but your body needs to rehydrate as soon as possible . |
| 23 | Although municipal waste seems to grow more slowly than income in rich countries , it does still grow . |
| 24 | The concept tends to fall down slightly when variations are required . |
| 25 | In most countries , the governmental and political concern with the environment has come somewhat later than that of scientists or concerned lay people : the early development of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany is something of an exception . |
| 26 | Town planning needs and traffic needs clash most openly when it comes to squares and junctions , which is why the town at that point must reflect the needs of planning and give least consideration to the needs of traffic . |
| 27 | Traffic has grown steadily rather than spectacularly during the twenty-nine years the preservation company has been operating . |
| 28 | For Sp1 , this has proved extremely difficult because multiple , and heterogeneous phosphorylation appears to occur in more than one region of the protein ( S.Jackson , unpublished data ) . |
| 29 | Bankers would be foolish to expect the Bank of Japan to improve their spreads by cutting the official discount rate ( ODR ) again if the economy fails to recover as quickly as many now expect . |
| 30 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |