Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precise figures are hard to come by , because many European discount chains are privately owned , but no one doubts that they are taking a growing share of the $140 billion or so that Europeans spend on food each year . |
| 2 | There is a tendency for people 's whole outlook to be foreshortened , so that life exists from day to day " — and Eliot was by no means immune from such general fears . |
| 3 | The first few days of what she and Cara now termed their ‘ Czechoslovakian Experience ’ had been carefully planned , so that Fabia knew in advance that she would never get to see Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 4 | He would like to rig the conference so that Israel goes on trial , with America as its attorney and the United Nations as judge and executioner . |
| 5 | Governments are well aware that a cycle of economic activity can be very advantageous provided it can be synchronized with the electoral cycle , so that booms occur at election times and recessions at non-election times . |
| 6 | Rooms were too few and stairs too narrow ; ceilings were too low or , on the upper floor , did not exist , so that sleepers stifled in summer and froze in winter . |
| 7 | Not content with protest in the homelands , the spirit spreads and joins similar movements worldwide , so that dissidents protesting against tyranny become our modern heroes and heroines . |
| 8 | In many human societies virtually everyone is treated as a kinsman of one sort or another so that alliances established by marriage are simply the renewal of links which have also existed in the past . |
| 9 | Sex has n't changed , men have n't changed enough and motherhood shrouded in poverty is what it always was — gains and losses . |
| 10 | Large percentage of information held on paper file only and information supplied on request to individual members of staff , line managers , RBG Management , Occupational Health Service , Treasury etc as appropriate . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |
| 12 | They sat chatting together while Elizabeth waited for trade to pick up again . |
| 13 | Opinion such as this was well established long before Hitler rose to power and there can be little doubt that Germanisation was one of the many items of baggage the Prussians left behind for the Nazis to snatch . |
| 14 | Crudely , the sense of blurred boundaries , of disrupted hierarchies , of disrespectful , intertextual playfulness , of the delight in superficiality and the wearing of cultural masks — all these were fundamental to the strategies of camp long before postmodernism lurched into view . |
| 15 | The greatest effect of social mobility might be expected to be in the middle of the range , perhaps when fathers move from manual to non-manual jobs , for example . |
| 16 | Because the cake is covered in buttercream it will not keep so long as cakes made with fondant , so eat it fairly soon after it is made . |
| 17 | So long as newspapers remain in awe of political authority , they are beyond criticism ; once they challenge that authority , they suffer the full force of its reaction . |
| 18 | Meetings are effective only when reflection leads to action . |
| 19 | A real anxiety is traceable even amongst the most priapic of men , especially when sex entangled with class . |
| 20 | The jaw muscles turn out to have been placed to generate the most powerful bite possible , especially when Diatryma brought into play the powerful downwards hingeing action of the upper beak on the skull . |
| 21 | The inhabitants ' concerns were primarily economic and environmental rather than matters relating to security . |
| 22 | The commission recommended , as a step towards integration , that a number of public schools should accept some of their pupils ( eventually at least half ) from maintained schools , using criteria of comprehensive selection and social needs ( rather than selection according to ability ) ; these pupils would receive financial assistance . |
| 23 | This straightforward facility means that you can revise , or indeed build , your presentation at the last minute — particularly if you opt for on-screen presentations , rather than foils produced by colour plotters — yet still get professional results . |
| 24 | The chief conclusion to emerge from the work discussed in this chapter is that retrieval processes contribute to the hybrid — that the latent inhibition effect occurs , at least in part , because subjects tend to retrieve information acquired during pre-exposure to the target stimulus rather than information acquired during conditioning . |
| 25 | Sales would be customer rather than product led in future . |
| 26 | The employer may find it difficult when he becomes aware of the fact that his former customers are now dealing with his former employee to prove that preparation to entice them away or enticement did in fact take place during employment . |
| 27 | On 16 June he captured Châteauroux and this time it fell into his lap so easily that men talked of treason . |
| 28 | However , it was n't until last year 's event in Nottingham that she started to perform manoeuvres like throwing her paddle away and hand surfing in competition . |
| 29 | Wide margins , the suggestions given above and colour coding during study periods make for an attractive and useful set of notes . |
| 30 | Patients transferred after initial diagnosis elsewhere and patients referred for consultation only were excluded . |