Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 2 | A thousand visitors are expected although sadly the Princess wo n't be able to attend . |
| 3 | It 's a question of not being discouraged and persevering until suddenly a drawing looks like you hope , of seeing the possibility in something , in a line , and thinking ‘ Oh quick , I must n't change that . |
| 4 | When a successful grocer was asked by a grocer 's daughter how to run the health service , what could we have expected if not a supermarket chain enterprise — open all hours . |
| 5 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 6 | They proposed instead a new list of candidates which included themselves ‘ and certain other painters whom we knew to a greater or lesser extent … who seemed to us capable of representing if not a particular tendency at least a certain standard ’ . |
| 7 | These numbers are also relevant for attempts to solve Fermat 's Conjecture ( se Section 3.5 ) and indeed the FC would be solved if only the uniqueness of factorisation theorem valid for numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib extended to them . |
| 8 | ‘ Similarly , if a woman has a child 's high voice and is arguing with a child , the child will always win because only the child 's voice is natural . |
| 9 | Now , imply that there is no stretch , as would be expected because only a pure rotation of axes has been involved . |
| 10 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
| 11 | Soft cuttings may root after only a few weeks , so pot individual cuttings as soon as you see new young leaves or white roots at the base of containers . |
| 12 | We do not know whether all the original recruits really were from orphanages and boarding schools , but if so , they were a particularly vulnerable group of people with a very confused class identity and little choice of work when placed under pressure from patrons . |
| 13 | We do not yet know whether all the infinities do cancel each other out , or exactly how to relate the waves on the string to the particular types of particle that we observe . |
| 14 | By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 16 | He had dropped the joviality , even dropped as well the slightly secretive air of one who had been given permission to tell , but not all . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a very expensive clear-out and must have come as quite a shock when the penny dropped . |
| 18 | It had come as quite a surprise to discover he was charming , very generous , and enormous fun to be with . |
| 19 | The election of Gorbachev 's deputy in the party leadership was awaited as probably the single most important indication of how the party and Gorbachev 's leadership would develop after the congress . |
| 20 | Subclause 8.1.3 is included as otherwise the guarantor would be released where the tenant surrenders part of the premises . |
| 21 | It supports conventional , XMS and EMS memory for its buffers and can be installed as either a device driver or TSR program . |
| 22 | But if the moment of performance is considered as potentially an act of composition , a different perspective can emerge . |
| 23 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
| 24 | Most take the experience with typical British humour and carrying on searching until either the dream home is found or they are worn down by the practicalities of price and location . |
| 25 | Democracy in East European countries and the USSR can only succeed if both the Warsaw Pact and NATO restructure those parts of their military forces assigned to Europe to make them non-offensive . |
| 26 | Magistrates at Devizes , Wilts , cleared him of acting illegally as a bookmaker at Crown Bookmakers at Ermine Street , Swindon , and acting while not a licence holder . |
| 27 | Normal tissue paper , like most paper , contains acid which encourages fading and decay , including the gradual yellowing of white fabrics , a process which may be seen after only a few years . |
| 28 | Although this area of research is beyond my technical competence , I am assured by experts in neo-Walrasian economics that very strong apriori restrictions need to be imposed before even a glimmer of a general market clearing solution can be discerned . |
| 29 | As from April 1993 , even more flexibility will be allowed with couples able to choose whether all the tax relief should go to one partner ( husband or wife ) or whether to split it on a 50–50 basis . |
| 30 | Rather it is presented as simply a mirror image of the subjectivist principle of mens rea . |