Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , we can find sedentary spiders like the webless , but sedentary , bolas spider , Mastophora , or the unrelated tangle-web spider , Tidarren , where males have undergone runaway evolution for dwarfism and mature inside the egg sac , clearly a derived character . |
| 2 | Indeed , where studies have provided this information , it is typically only to note that the majority of the sample were white ( for example , Wilson , 1987 ; Graham , 1987b ) . |
| 3 | One branch runs north-westwards up into the Indonesian archipelago , where volcanoes have killed more people than anywhere else on earth , and peters out before reaching the Asian mainland . |
| 4 | Globe artichokes are very unpredictable from seed , so Dobies have introduced young plants of ‘ Camus de Bretagne ’ , one of the finest varieties available . |
| 5 | Although bankers seem to have some optimism , even members of the Reichmann family say the debt restructuring will be a long haul . |
| 6 | Aggressive and destructive children usually can not be contained purely by the ignoring and rewarding methods described in the previous chapter , so parents need to learn alternative management methods that will enable them to gain rapid and effective control . |
| 7 | It is the student 's responsibility to arrange for payment in full , on or before enrolment , although arrangements exist to allow self-funding students to pay in termly instalments ( see below ) . |
| 8 | So although cats do enjoy this taste , they do so at a very mild level indeed . |
| 9 | In addition , as we have seen from remarks made by the music and drama specialists , once children have acquired this type of understanding they tend to be very honest about their work , as shown in the following comments from the Head of Art at Redbrook Secondary : |
| 10 | Although aromatherapists tend to favour odourless base oils such as those mentioned above , there is no reason why you should not use a naturally fragrant oil such coconut which is lovely with rose or ylang-ylang . |
| 11 | It also follows that , although offenders do forfeit some portion of the rights citizens should normally enjoy , they still retain the status of human beings and therefore retain important human rights ( Richardson , 1995 ) — a point on which we are closer to some retributivist thinkers than to classical utilitarianism . |
| 12 | Akehurst was early in understanding the importance of administrative and employment law in international organisations and , although others have carried this work forward , his contribution during the 1960s can properly be regarded as pioneering . |
| 13 | What Lance Percival also says is that he will never know the depth of Ken 's sexual feelings , although others have produced stronger evidence . |
| 14 | There has been no injury to bowel in the 113 patients in whom the procedure was attempted , although others have reported this complication . |
| 15 | Although horses do have many emotions , the belief in them only having two is also frequently demonstrated by conventional horse photography and in the show ring . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , McHale is waiting to see if Middlesbrough decide to recall on-loan keeper Ian Ironside because of the injury to Stephen Pears . |
| 17 | Moreover , if banks wish to attract more borrowers , they might well consider how they can soften the rather forbidding image which we found they have for so many people . |
| 18 | If governments wish to reduce monetary growth and yet avoid financial crowding out , they must therefore reduce the level of the PSBR . |
| 19 | Only if neutrinos do have some mass , however small , can they oscillate from one type to another . |
| 20 | If managers wish to integrate divisionalised structures or geographically dispersed branches , for example , by promoting a strong ‘ central ’ culture , they may encounter resistance among the sub-units . |
| 21 | If one were to take Smirlock and Marshall 's view ( 1983 ) that any one constraint is sufficient for efficient company performance , and if managers do perceive that career paths can involve movement between various company types , then an efficient managerial labour market constraint would suffice to promote efficiency in any structural type . |
| 22 | First , capital needs are sizeable if firms wish to become major players , to invest in technology , to be able to handle underwriting and distribution , notably of " bought deals " , to hire expertise and to be able to trade and make markets . |
| 23 | A number of authors ( Akerlof and Yellen , 1985 ; Mankiw , 1985a ; Parkin , 1986 ) have argued that if firms have set optimum prices , a small change in the optimum may not persuade firms to change their price as the gain in profit is marginal . |
| 24 | It could be wrong , and the product might make a loss , if sales fail to reach 10,000 units . |
| 25 | If people come to expect that interest rates will normally be higher than they used to be , then any given interest rate will seem lower relative to the ‘ normal ’ rate than it used to be . |
| 26 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 27 | It is even more useful if people have produced verbal statements without explanation , or have given you a formula but missed the underlying structure . |
| 28 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 29 | even if people do read these contracts , or these warranties , or these extended service contracts , they might not know what they 're buying even if it 's read to them , because it 's in a particular kind of jargon . |
| 30 | But if people start sending unhealthy animals , trading will cease . |