Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 This remedy may come in later if earache occurs ; enlarged lymph glands ; sensation of pressure at the root of the nose or throbbing and burning ; rattling cough ; thick , yellow , stringy nasal discharge .
2 She watched as he broke into a run along the perimeter track ; the same track his bomber would lumber round tonight if standby became reality .
3 First decide whether you wish to make a portrait or landscape design , and check that the card will stand up properly if you are opting for the latter shape .
4 Seb 'll settle down again once they 're gone . ’
5 I think that if the present association is continued , and if this meeting agrees that it should be continued , you will see some more breaking up , and I believe the process must go on inevitably until the old Conservative Party is smashed to atoms and lost in ruins .
6 If it is a runaway success the draw could pull in more than £3 billion , creating at least two new millionaires each week .
7 As Zinyama and Whitlow ( 1986 ) have pointed out , erosion problems are likely to increase in the Communal Lands , where a population growth of 3.6 per cent per year means that the population will double in less than 20 years .
8 Our clientele will go down quicker than free beer on a beano ! ’
9 No partner has a guarantee that the other will turn out exactly as he or she would wish .
10 The Norpac decoders for the trial are expensive , at about £1600 , but the price will come down considerably if the trial is a success .
11 True , Novell seems to be promising that life will go on much as usual .
12 Beds vary enormously in style and price , but you get what you pay for and a cheap bed will wear out faster than a quality style .
13 ( ix ) Of course , the same word form may occur in more than one word class .
14 It 's my guess and it 's an educated guess , within the next decade this growth will speed up partly because of new technology and the employer 's needs to cut costs and maximize profits .
15 So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay .
16 R.5(6) provides that a shareholder shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of R.5 — a breach could come about either because a shareholder is not permitted to be a shareholder or because a shareholder is holding for another person who is not permitted to be a beneficial owner .
17 This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb .
18 It may be that the lovely weather will go on even after the hall is pulled down , in which case we can meet out of doors , but we ca n't expect to go on doing that when autumn and winter comes , can we ? ’
19 But the 10-barrel John Hickey plant can knock out more when the occasion demands .
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