Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For this same reason once she had caught up with her husband ( and been sent quickly home as being very undutiful and immoral travelling about alone and not remaining in her place at home against his return ) it would have been inconceivable for her to go to the police . |
| 2 | To some , the parade before the public is a source of extreme satisfaction to their vanity , but all the preliminaries that go before the parade are so much drudgeries that irritate , and are completed as hastily as possible . |
| 3 | Malayan barn owls are adapting quickly to this rich habitat and are reproducing much faster than elsewhere . |
| 4 | The books being published now are more attractive and relevant ; they are usually written by experienced and practising nurses rather than doctors , and as a result are more appealing to the reader and are reviewed more enthusiastically than has been the case in the past . |
| 5 | The Balakovo reactors are regulated by a pressurized water system and are considered much safer than the older type of reactor installed at Chernobyl , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 . |
| 6 | They wreaked havoc in the country villages , looted and burned at will and were drunk more often than sober . |
| 7 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 8 | It is not of overwhelming proportions and is presented as near as possible to a lived-in family home , rather than a museum . |
| 9 | Among other black and ethnic minority psychology students , the tendency to take Ph.Ds in health and services areas remains strong , and is increasing more rapidly than is true for psychology Ph.Ds in general . |
| 10 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |
| 11 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
| 12 | Then she died a thousand deaths and was born again instantly as at last his lips came down to cover hers . |
| 13 | It was designed for heavy goods haulage and was built as late as 1960 . |
| 14 | We encountered two technical complications : one stent was badly positioned and was left too proximally because of a technical problem during insertion . |
| 15 | All the dredge straw is eaten avidly by cattle ; the rye and wheat straw are less palatable , but are eaten more readily when put through the chaff-cutter and mixed with chopped mangolds or swedes . |
| 16 | Leading intellectuals had been purged but were treated more leniently than in the past . |