Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were able to do the job for which they were hired and they cost less than men . |
| 2 | He had a conciliatory air and he looked uneasy when Troth turned his back . |
| 3 | They g they had to be weighed last week and he weighs more than Jonathan . |
| 4 | Chung found that only 7% of the mispricing signals indicated an underpricing of the future , and he interpreted this as evidence against the presence of a tax timing option ( see Section 5.3.4 ) , which would lead to an increase in the number of underpricings . |
| 5 | Yeah , I think we should minute erm our appreciation of the action taken by yourself and the clerk in resolving this matter , because we did approve work erm and it became obvious after work was commenced that there was additional work that needed to be got on with |
| 6 | Woosnam failed from eight feet or less on four of the opening six holes , and it proved crucial as Ogle rattled in four birdies in a 69 before snatching the biggest win of his career . |
| 7 | But I see more than Rainbow does : I see something else coming over the wall . |
| 8 | The thousands of varieties of European shirts may differ in terms of button types and collar lengths , but they remain recognizable as shirts as opposed to garments used in other cultures for an identical functional purpose ; and this is because the manufacturers , as it were , agree to differ with respect to these specific and limited dimensions . |
| 9 | But they do less than justice to this remarkable donkey . |
| 10 | But he seemed older than Li Yuan remembered him . |
| 11 | It gained terrific publicity , but it takes more than column inches to sell records , and I am sure that Elvis 's continuing success has more to do with talent . |
| 12 | ‘ Coppers , aye , but it takes more than coppers to cart them there ; they wo n't come and pick 'em up . ’ |
| 13 | Furthermore , it has long been suggested that there is an inhibitory effect on hepatitis B virus replication by hepatitis delta virus in chronic hepatitis B virus infection , but it remains unclear whether hepatitis delta virus might interfere with the expression of hepatitis B virus envelope antigens in the liver or not . |
| 14 | Lloyd 's has had a difficult time recently but it remains vital if London is to retain its pre-eminent position in the world insurance market . ’ |
| 15 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |