Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They can not move until values again exceed the size of their loan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Unless parents fully accept the child , the burden of pain and failure will be passed on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may seem a strange usage , too , because feminists usually make a distinction between sex ( anatomical , biological ) and gender ( social , cultural ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Memories take the place of regrets so that they can become comforting things , whereas regrets usually emphasize the emptiness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Whether managers fully exploit the pocket of discretion thus created depends on the intensity of their own commitment to profit maximisation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thus , often gilt prices start to change direction before interest rate movements take place , as investors successfully anticipate the government 's intentions . |
| 25 | When households initially decide the flow of their labour services that they are willing to supply at different values for the real wage rate they are simultaneously deciding the quantities of goods which they demand in exchange for those services . |
| 26 | For details please send an sae to UK rep at the following address : . |
| 27 | THE smash-hit musical City of Angels will stage a midnight performance on July 11 to raise money for Aids as police still hunt the killer of the show 's assistant director . |
| 28 | Persuading a child to take a long course of medicine is usually a struggle , as children often dislike the taste . |