Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 2 | Margaret Thatcher and Ruby Wax tie for bottom place ; neither musters more than 1% support as sex objects . |
| 3 | Some communicate better than others . |
| 4 | In addition the external examiners review and comment on examination papers , moderate coursework where this constitutes more than 50 per cent of the assessment of a module , review other coursework if necessary , viva students if required , recommend awards , write annual reports and advise staff on the delivery of the course . |
| 5 | With cash accounting we suggested that manipulation of accounting results could be effected by postponing cash payments and that this applied particularly when budgets were used in financial control . |
| 6 | This represents less than 5 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital as at 24 March 1993 and is in line with guidelines issued by the Investment Protection Committees of the Association of British Insurers and the National Association of Pension Funds . |
| 7 | You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 . |
| 8 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 9 | Yes , computers have practically infinite branching capabilities , but this matters little when we are unable to foresee more than a very few of the more common possible learner responses . |
| 10 | The press in the GDR , not counting local periodicals and special interest magazines , is largely controlled by the party , though this matters little because almost all East Germans live on a diet of information provided by West German television and radio . |
| 11 | There 's no chance of this occurring here as the Doctors continue on their premeditated way to becoming this generation 's Wolfe Tones ( dreary Irish folk re-pub-licans from the '70s ) . |
| 12 | For Fig.4 g , the minimum [ Glu ] is given by , where V m is membrane potential and V X is the Nernst potential of X. ( This holds even if some HCO is transported , because . ) |
| 13 | This holds even though much of the money for welfare programmes such as AFDC comes from the Federal exchequer ; the larger the average payment , above a Federally-prescribed minimum , the larger the proportion of it which has to be met from State revenues , so that generous State governments are taxing their own residents in order to support their generosity ( see Tresch , 1975 ) . |
| 14 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 15 | Board and Sutcliffe ( 1990 ) found clear evidence supporting the Samuelson hypothesis for index futures , but this occurred only when the high and low prices were used in the volatility measure . |
| 16 | Each circuit can feed up to 12 lighting points , but in practice it is wise to restrict this to a maximum of eight , to allow for some to contain more than one bulb . |
| 17 | Some appear automatically when you begin a certain task ( the Chart toolbar appears when you start work on a graph ) and others live under the Options toolbar in the menu . |
| 18 | Some earn more than £500,000 . |
| 19 | Some came partly because of relationships with Annie and me . |
| 20 | The clocks are very expensive — some costing more than ten thousand pounds , but even in the depths of a recession the firm thought it had enough work to keep it ticking over . |
| 21 | This occurs even though they apparently retain the " true " meaning of physical perception . |
| 22 | Only after a time do the principles on which the family is based — private property and slavery — come into conflict with the community and its commonality ; this occurs only when the family begins to move into the political domain . |
| 23 | This happens even if he subsequently rolls a 6 for his ‘ Eadbangerz Test . |
| 24 | This happens long before they come into a residential establishment . |
| 25 | Spring is generally the season in which to sow , but some germinate better if sown in late summer or early autumn , that is , as soon as the parent plants have flowered and set seed , and the seed has ripened . |
| 26 | While most people regularly watch both BBC and ITV news , few read more than one morning newspaper . |
| 27 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 28 | Dexter assumed this happened just after Nicola had been called to the phone . |
| 29 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 30 | This happened directly when employers were unable to raise prices sufficiently to offset ‘ excessive ’ wage increases because of growing international competition and fixed exchange rates . |