Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [adv] [vb base] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aberdeen took advantage of Hibs not having a league fixture last week , and they did it in style , this spectacular overhead kick from Duncan Shearer clinching a two-nil victory over Dundee United at Pittodrie , which took the Dons to joint top spot in the Premier table , although Hibs now have a game in hand . |
| 2 | Aberdeen took advantage of Hibs not having a league fixture last week , and they did it in style , this spectacular overhead kick from Duncan Shearer clinching a two-nil victory over Dundee United at Pittodrie , which took the Dons to joint top spot in the Premier table , although Hibs now have a game in hand . |
| 3 | We can continue debating their demise , while we wait for the day when European taxpayers rather than farmers finally call the day on the common agricultural policy . |
| 4 | About 20% live in the country , or rural areas , but less than 2% actually make a living by farming . |
| 5 | Nature of operations The Bank lends on a commercial basis ( although loans usually have a grace period of five years before repayments ) since the intention is to supplement private finance , not compete with it . |
| 6 | The company also has 50 former proprietary 8870 sites , although users now have the option to migrate old Comet applications to Unix machines via the Cross Basic tool . |
| 7 | If you wish to draw an angle larger than 180° simply draw an angle equal to the angle required , subtracted from 360° . |
| 8 | They can not move until values again exceed the size of their loan . |
| 9 | If gallerists now sense a hesitancy on the part of collectors , this is not the direct or exclusive result of those collectors ' financial circumstances post reunification . |
| 10 | Granted , if socialists merely develop a list of pat answers to these questions ( nationalisation , ‘ planning ’ ) while failing to fight for more immediately realisable socialist gains outside of government they will not get much of a hearing , but equally to write off the macroeconomic questions as too difficult to speculate about is to forego the right to contest the policies of a reactionary national government . |
| 11 | If men firmly reject the saving work of God in Jesus , they forfeit the very possibility of rescue , not because God will not have them , but because they say like Satan in Paradise Lost , ‘ Darkness , be thou my light . ’ |
| 12 | Unless parents fully accept the child , the burden of pain and failure will be passed on . |
| 13 | Sheffield must lose one of its matches next season and if all the other venues are to be preserved , a couple of games must be taken away from Headingley , unless Yorkshire also get a Tourist match . |
| 14 | The curriculum justifies itself by saying that unless teachers deliberately introduce the subject of homosexuality to the classroom it would be unlikely ever to arise among the children themselves . |
| 15 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 16 | LAMP and RAMP have found that because pupils rarely get the chance to use their own initiative , they become even more dependent on their teacher for direction . |
| 17 | The problem is caused by the spartan nature of the seats in riot vans , and because police rarely get the chance to ease aching muscles with a stroll . |
| 18 | It may seem a strange usage , too , because feminists usually make a distinction between sex ( anatomical , biological ) and gender ( social , cultural ) . |
| 19 | While vegetables generally have the capacity to germinate soon after spring sowing , however low the temperature drops , flower seeds , also due for sowing soon on adjacent land to provide cut flowers during the summer , do need more warmth to get going . |
| 20 | Victory sent the Debmat Diamonds back to the top of the Gold Cup Northern Section , one point ahead of Berwick while Boro now have no chance of qualifying for the final . |
| 21 | But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it . |
| 22 | Apart from these three , reports came in to the Royal Society from more than fifty other vessels , whose log-books provided a valuable source of information , particularly since officers-of-the-watch habitually keep a note of the time at which observations are made . |
| 23 | And while cynics still doubt the value of a breakaway body , Robinson has no doubts that a year after it 's formation , it represents a step forward . |
| 24 | Memories take the place of regrets so that they can become comforting things , whereas regrets usually emphasize the emptiness . |
| 25 | Droplets up to 100 m in size can be suspended in the air and travel for long distances , so a few deeply inhaled legionella-laden amoebae could cause infection , especially since legionellae successfully outgrow the host cell at body temperature . |
| 26 | Research is needed to establish whether the level of conciliated settlements is fair to applicants or whether applicants simply prefer the bird in the hand to that in the bush . |
| 27 | Whether managers fully exploit the pocket of discretion thus created depends on the intensity of their own commitment to profit maximisation . |
| 28 | I mean I I just do not really understand whether people fully realize the gravity of the economic situation that we face . |
| 29 | This needs emphasising to patients , as some on diet alone quickly learn that they have glycosuria after meals so solve the problem by testing the urine after the overnight fast or before meals . |
| 30 | Le Corbusier 's opinion that a house is a machine to live in is no longer disputed ; just as planners now regard a town as a machine to live in . |