Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where schools patently did need greater assistance , Leslie Ryder reasoned , was in the production of materials , in the planning of course units making use of resources , and in the use and operation of audio-visual and reprographic equipment . |
| 2 | Few men go to birth control clinics , although the Brook Advisory Clinics have reported a slight increase , and contraception is certainly not a salient feature in men 's magazines , where sex never seems to bring such consequences as birth and fatherhood . |
| 3 | But his sparkling display at Turf Moor is likely to net the Yorkshireman a contract , although McHale also plans to recruit another keeper during the summer . |
| 4 | The magnitude y d is the demand for goods which would materialize if households actually managed to sell all of the labour services which they notionally offer . |
| 5 | And it will be interesting to see if people really do like happy endings . |
| 6 | If Chamberlain really wanted to do that he should resign and make way for a government of genuine anti-appeasers . |
| 7 | Lying there at seven o'clock in the morning , suddenly wide awake , as was her manner , it seemed to her quite obvious that she and Charles should get divorced : it had surely long been inevitable , and if Charles really wanted to marry that woman ( or had he perhaps been joking ? — no , perhaps not ) , well then , let him . |
| 8 | Injuries due to accidents they say , even if minor , are distressing events for children , parents and carers and great skill and tact are required during the follow-up period because parents often continue to feel guilty , anxious and defensive . |
| 9 | Belinda watched her , smiling at first because Faye really did seem pleased about the present , then with increasing anxiety . |
| 10 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 11 | Since lions always like to isolate one individual from the herd before attacking , this theory also makes sense on paper , but reality does not bear it out because lions can all too easily single out animals for the kill . |
| 12 | But whereas Oldman always seemed to have mainstream Hollywood in his sights . |
| 13 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 14 | Burnside , 19 , of Coronation Street , and Sture , 21 , of North Road admitted two counts of burglary , one of taking a vehicle without the owner 's consent and one of theft , while Burnside also admitted handling stolen goods . |
| 15 | He has refused all real negotiation at any stage , since negotiations necessarily mean dropping preliminary conditions like the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait . |
| 16 | All around her , the flower-market was bustling with life as traders seemingly managed to clinch three deals simultaneously , talking and haggling at double speed . |
| 17 | When Grunenthal finally decided to make civil compensation to the satisfaction of suffering parents and children , the federal government 's prosecution lost the bit between its teeth and permitted the hearing to be suspended indefinitely . |
| 18 | Why did the Minister 's Department authorise Admiral Sir Julian Oswald to give information to the press on the specific question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) , when Ministers continually refuse to answer that question in the House ? |