Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [that] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've proved that when the ball moves at three on Saturday we 're all together . |
| 2 | I 've found that when the water is heavily coloured after a rain storm this is often the case and fish will be caught in bursts as they pass up and down the swim . |
| 3 | Cooperative women have realised that if the principle ‘ Each for all and all for each ’ is good in their shopping , it is equally good in production , in education , and in the affairs of the nation and of the world . |
| 4 | We have said that when a logogen reaches threshold ‘ a response is available ’ ; but since there are two output routes from the logogen system ( to the cognitive system and to the response buffer ) this term is ambiguous . |
| 5 | ‘ I am disheartened by C&A 's corporate clothing attitude and have decided that if the sleeve of my record must remain blank then I shall boycott C&A from now on , and my feet and bottom will remain bare until we settle this like grown men . ’ |
| 6 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 7 | On this issue , Hwang and Mai ( 1988 ) have shown that if the home firm 's conjectures were more ( less ) competitive than Cournot , the effect of the quota is to raise ( lower ) domestic prices relative to those that would have prevailed in the presence of tariffs . |
| 8 | Observations of lakes in southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have shown that where the pH level has fallen , a decline in the lower phytoplankton biomass and species variety takes place . |
| 9 | This interpretation could be applied to computer records , although some commentators have noted that where a document has undergone processing , as well as recording , it will not apply . |
| 10 | Using data for the period 1954–74 , Khalil and Hanna ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that since the scheme was initiated the dissolved salt content of the Nile at the head of the delta has increased by 29 per cent . |
| 11 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 12 | Many jurisdictions have taken the view that to insist on such service would unfairly disadvantage potential plaintiffs , and have provided that where an enterprise based abroad does business within the jurisdiction service may be effected at some business address there , without the need to serve any document abroad . |
| 13 | Its difficulties have meant that while the CAB workload expands , the services it can offer have had to be cut . |
| 14 | Some critics of the Delors Plan have maintained that while the creation of a European currency union may reap net benefits for a number of EC member countries , for others membership of such a union will be positively harmful , at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 15 | A number of commentators have suggested that once the assessment procedures have been initiated parents become increasingly marginalised in the process . |
| 16 | Indeed , some estimates have suggested that if the Exchequer received all the tax due to it from the black economy , the basic rate of income tax might be cut by 10 per cent . |
| 17 | However , in other cases the courts have held that where a clause requiring best endeavours appears with an exclusion or force majeure clause , it qualifies the latter , so that the contractor can only rely on the exclusion or force majeure clause if it can establish that it used best endeavours ( see Yates and Hawkins , Standard Business Contracts : Exclusions and Related Devices , p165 ) . |