Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 2 | FALL-OUT at Credit Lyonnais Laing , where I hear that 12 staff from UK research , equity sales , dealing and settlements were bid farewell a week ago . |
| 3 | That I do n't think will please John Major or Mrs Thatcher for being , er seeing you fuelling and other directors and all the directors of our public companies fuelling inflation with their inflationary wage rises does n't seem reasonable whatsoever and I think that er one should consider this in a different light . |
| 4 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 5 | Watching actors in animal costume making their sophisticated jokes was like proof of anthropologists ' statements , as typified by Frazer in that same conclusion to The Dying God , where he stated that serious rites had become idle amusement , mummeries , and childish games . |
| 6 | Evidence to support this general contention has been found in Warwickshire and Devon , where it appears that new building has been concentrated mainly in the major settlements of the hierarchy . |
| 7 | The regulations give some guidance by directing that an application may be refused where it appears that any advantage accruing would only be trivial , where the simple nature of the proceedings would not normally require the assistance of a solicitor , or where funds from another source were available but not pursued . |
| 8 | The union had already moved from its fine premises in Buckingham Street , Strandon 22 September 1894 as an economy measure and eventually found a more permanent home , along with the Green 's Home branch , at the Maritime Hall , West India Dock Road , London E. where it remained until Head Office was moved to St.George 's Hall , Westminster Bridge Road , London S.E. in May 1921 . |
| 9 | Although I say that this story could really happen , I doubt that there would be the character of Simon in reality as I think that a boy his age would realise the dangerous situation he was in , and join the other boys . |
| 10 | Although I feel that one theme in To Kill A Mocking Bird is racial prejudice , I feel that this idea broadens out to the main theme for the whole novel of man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 11 | Watching her sleep , however , is not the most stimulating experience I 've had of late , although I realise that certain New York film-makers would have shot ten solid reels of it and begged for more . |
| 12 | ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank . |
| 13 | Erm I 'm afraid dinner 's gon na be a little later than I anticipated cos that chicken is quite big is n't it ? |
| 14 | Such help is certainly required , so I hope that this facility of the Territorial Army will not be wasted . |
| 15 | ‘ Once I realised that this novel was going to be a kind of mammoth , I decided to forgo writing the series . |
| 16 | Once you realise that some blocks need to be matched early , in order to gain access to others , things get tougher . |
| 17 | Although we accept that careful zoning in time and space can help to reduce the impacts of noise , we believe there is an urgent need to encourage attitudinal changes in society towards the acceptability of mechanically-aided recreation . |
| 18 | Although we believe that all birds and bats must have a common ancestor if we trace their lineages back far enough , that common ancestor was also the common ancestor of all mammals ( including ourselves ) and all birds . |
| 19 | This approach appears reasonable , although we recognise that actual numbers may vary slightly from those stated . |
| 20 | However in this instance there is no a priori reason for binding to one rather than the other , so we assume that both sites are equally occupied . |
| 21 | We confirmed that the NP1450L RNA has an apparent size of 4.15 kb by hybridization with a second oligonucleotide probe ( not shown ) , so we consider that this RNA might have an anomalous electrophoretic mobility which would cause an underestimation of its size . |
| 22 | It seems likely that the files of cases which had ‘ no further action ’ or were cautioned would be returned to the police quickly , so we inferred that those cases not followed-up had been tried in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 23 | Although they recognize that social relations , discourses , and language are not the same thing , their practice tends to belie this . |
| 24 | Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church . |
| 25 | Some are easier than they appear but many others prove much more difficult . |
| 26 | Private Acts of Parliament could be used to overcome opposition ; 472 between 1770 and 1779 , 2000 in all ( Darby 1973b ) , although it seems that more land was enclosed in the seventeenth than in the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | Although he concedes that this kind of research is sometimes necessary , he deplores the tendency to regard it as the norm . |
| 28 | ‘ He also said the factory included many novel and revolutionary schemes not operational in any other part of the world , although he stressed that all equipment had been tried out elsewhere ’ . |
| 29 | Professor Botha also said neither woman had been raped , although he added that further tests are to be conducted on the bodies . |
| 30 | April : An extension of links with South Africa was announced by Ratsiraka , including a direct air service and expanded economic and commercial relations , although he emphasized that diplomatic recognition would not take place until South Africa had abolished apartheid . |