Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures suggest that more than 40 per cent of arable land in England and Wales is potentially at risk from erosion by wind or water . |
| 2 | The latest estimates suggest that more than one million dependent children are in such families . |
| 3 | Suddenly the man next to you says : ‘ Of course , you realise that more than 50 per cent of all road journeys are less than three miles long ? ’ |
| 4 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 5 | Some experts say that even if the eruption stopped today , the sheer pressure of lava piled up behind for six miles would bring debris cascading down on to the town anyway . |
| 6 | Its critics say that even if the waves do not lap over the runway , exorbitant landing fees will frustrate Osaka 's ambitions to displace Seoul as an airline hub for East Asia . |
| 7 | Other sources say that even if SCO does manage to cut a deal for SVR4 — leaving OSF/1 , the other possible route , by the wayside — its future intent is to move to a micro-kernel architecture , and which flavour of that it might go for still has n't been decided . |
| 8 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 9 | But if you say that especially when you say it quickly it 's starting to sound a bit like cos Z squared . |
| 10 | ‘ They say that more than thirty people are dying every week now . ’ |
| 11 | Market research is being applied in some sectors which lists the priorities customers expect and also where a business is falling short . |
| 12 | Opium was probably known in Roman if not in Greek times , and was used to promote sleep as well as to relieve pain . |
| 13 | The lifestyles experienced by people who live in homes for the elderly are undoubtedly shaped by the nature of the physical setting they occupy as well as the social and organisational regimes which characterise such establishments . |
| 14 | Two tailed Student 's t test as well as the Mann-Whitney U test were used . |
| 15 | Mainlan GTI now comes in a Windows flavour as well as DOS , and it 's the Windows side of things that we 'll examine — the DOS software echoes it fairly closely . |
| 16 | There 's a good on-screen tutorial covering computer basics , and Lotus Works , a reasonable , DOS-based integrated package which includes a comms program as well as the usual word processor , database and spreadsheet . |
| 17 | Will the rest of the family fit as well as all your requirements ? |
| 18 | The shape or general appearance of many plants gives rise to numerous names which have appeal to the senses of sight and smell as well as the imagination . |
| 19 | Sinusoidal signals passing through an open-loop amplifier or feedback network generally experience a phase shift as well as a change in amplitude . |
| 20 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |
| 21 | The unions are concerned because they fear that even if the in-house bids for the Civil Service work are successful , jobs could still be lost . |
| 22 | WHAT are we to make of a claim by the Surrey Wildlife Trust that more than a million wild animals and birds are ‘ probably ’ killed every year on the roads of Britain ? |
| 23 | Developments like this mean that even if alluvial gold gives out or becomes less profitable , the uncontrolled search for wealth will continue and accelerate . |
| 24 | Low house prices here mean that even though Northern Ireland is bottom of the UK salary league with an annual average of £15,012 , people can still afford to get on to the housing ladder . |
| 25 | We conclude that even though the algebraic and denotational semantics characterises exactly the same equivalence over occam , they are in some sense complementary . |
| 26 | Our data show that just as there is functional heterogeneity in the periphery , there is heterogeneity of intermitotic time ( lifespan ) . |
| 27 | The latest jobless figures show that even if the Chancellor 's attempts to revive the economy are working , too many of the British people still are not . |
| 28 | Tests using C programs show that less than 20 percent of instructions are loads and stores , while more than 80 percent are register-to-register . |
| 29 | Initial results show that more than 90 per cent of MPs have agreed to undertake some follow-up action as a result of the lobby . |
| 30 | New figures show that more than ten criminal offences are committed every minute in England and Wales . |