Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That opportunity arose sooner than expected in the Autumn of 1927 , when twelve cars were obtained in good condition from Croydon Corporation .
2 When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons .
3 This decision started rather than ended the controversy about united action .
4 In addition , the majority of Instem 's contracts consist of large operational management systems for data acquisition and control , which in some cases took longer than expected to complete .
5 There is a variety of detailed arrangements , but the typical relations of producers in these conditions are those of state-corporate employees , or in some cases state rather than market professionals .
6 The interpretation of the requirement in practice has varied and there has been a tendency for some companies to understate rather than emphasise the significance of what they have done .
7 A good example of this is the way that some Christians have all but taken over , or perhaps been taken in by , the complete relativism in the modern concept of truth .
8 ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point means intentionally as opposed to accidentally and unlawfully as opposed to lawfully such as an artists ' model .
9 If you 're expecting trouble it 's worth consulting your doctor early as some treatments work best if started in advance .
10 Some men get just as turned on by nuzzling and licking the cock and balls without taking them in the mouth .
11 However dramatically their powers and responsibilities may have been extended by the 1986 and 1988 Acts , their legal duties in this matter remain exactly as stated in section 2(5) of the 1981 Act .
12 ( The value of such trade had more than doubled between 1988 and 1990 , to a record US$705,000,000 , as US firms sought to capitalize on Cuba 's need for new financial partners . )
13 When using HP paper as much pastel falls away as sticks to the sheet .
14 These models develop continuously while attempting to modify the external situation ( physical or social ) .
15 An indication that many fighters have all but lost any semblance of moral conscience are the frequent violations of the neutrality of medical and humanitarian workers .
16 Certainly , the majority of today 's cars need far less skill to drive quickly than did their predecessors of the sixties and early seventies .
17 Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 .
18 The Third Republic 's record of creativity indicates , Fumaroli argues , that culture flourishes best when subsidised least .
19 He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out .
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