Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of their low ratings , some of America 's biggest banks pay more for short- and long-term funds than do their industrial customers . |
| 2 | He has also convinced the Scots he cares far more about their future than did his predecessor , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 3 | Yet it is easier to sense the swing of history against traditional religion than to measure it . |
| 4 | Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen . |
| 5 | I would sooner lose the use of both legs than read it . |
| 6 | I 'm not really an emotional person at all , just because I 'd rather ignore emotion than confront it , so when it comes down to really heavy shit it kinda just breezes right by me . |
| 7 | There can be nothing worse for those employed in any industry than to have their incomes drastically reduced for two years on the trot and then be left twirling their thumbs wondering whether at the end of the next year they will still be in business — whether they can continue to be farmers and produce the food that Britain can use . |
| 8 | It presented a far better opportunity for an unsolved murder than killing her on his own premises . |
| 9 | Actually it 's all very much easier to explain in pictures than to tell you how it works , so let's go step by step , shall we ? |
| 10 | Most financial intermediaries are thus involved in a process known as maturity transformation whereby deposits generally have a shorter term than have their loans . |
| 11 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 12 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 13 | What better way to taunt the auld enemy than to treat them with such reckless contempt ? |
| 14 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |
| 15 | The scenes of horror and infamy on board of a man-of-war are so many and so great that I think they must rather disgust a mind than allure it . ’ |
| 16 | In which case , what better , what other remedy than to push yourself as hard as you could towards all extremes to feel alive , but keep the centre inviolate ? |
| 17 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 18 | For example the Labour party planned to abolish compulsory competitive tendering in the public sector although many managers would have still continued with the practice if convinced it brought efficiency gains . |
| 19 | On Kristallnacht when we all romped and played and helped the Jews , and the fizzy shards swirled like stars or souls , and when Herta bent to wipe her lips with a pink handkerchief-before spitting my tongue out of her mouth . |
| 20 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 21 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 22 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 23 | The bombings appeared to indicate a new strategy of bombing tourist complexes while observing its declared suspension of military activities . |
| 24 | For example , the distribution of the labour force between agriculture and industry has always been regarded as an important indicator of economic growth , if not precisely development , because most of the present advanced industrial societies , in particular the United Kingdom and the United States , exhibited a marked tendency to reduce their agricultural labour force while increasing their industrial labour force . |
| 25 | In the meantime , the Dragoons were floundering in the boggy ground , easy targets for the riflemen while finding it impossible to fire with any reasonable accuracy themselves . |
| 26 | Another significant filmmaker who came out of television was Ken Russell , who continued working on his imaginative TV interpretations of the lives of such composers as Elgar , Delius and Richard Strauss while making his first , uneven , forays into cinema with French Dressing ( 1963 ) and Billion Dollar Brain ( 1965 ) . |
| 27 | He died in Oxford 22 October 1729 , as a result of gangrene following a fall from his horse while visiting his Hertfordshire parish , although he blamed his illness on ‘ drinking a pretty deal of bad small beer ’ . |
| 28 | However , he continued to hold her hand on the walk back to the main track , where he again drew her close to his side while taking her arm . |
| 29 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 30 | Unless restorers are completely incompetent or unscrupulous , they are in any case unlikely to remove actual stone from a sculpture in sound structural condition while cleaning it . |