Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Pope Lucius III sought aid from Henry II and the clergy of England in 1184 — a request that the clergy agreed to if the king wishes to pay it .
2 She 'd found no sign of life anywhere on her travels , no supporting staff , though the house and gardens looked as if an army of faithful family retainers had slaved there for centuries .
3 The exact figures depended on whether the robot was used for material handling or for operating a tool , the former application displacing more workers than the latter .
4 The directive deals with the same matters with respect to credit institutions that the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives dealt with for the generality of companies .
5 The windows , black as pitch , were streaming with water , and from time to time doors and windows rattled as if the cottage were under attack .
6 The same law and the same rules of construction apply both to clauses in agreements entered into before a dispute has arisen and subsequent agreements to refer entered into after a dispute has arisen .
7 The correlations given with whether the junction was previously known or not is a point biserial correlation with data from all 30 subjects potentially available , data was coded as 1 if the junction was previously known and 0 if unknown .
8 The excesses of overpayment in 1987–89 were made worse by a simple point : companies , whether buying themselves out or releveraging themselves in competition with outside bidders , paid their investment-bank advisers fees linked to whether the transaction was completed or not .
9 His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years .
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