Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a day which saw the political demise of UDP man Ken Kerr and a poor showing for the Ulster Unionist party on the Waterside , where only group leader John Adams was re-elected , despite fielding four men . |
| 2 | And where once union leaders talked of struggle and solidarity , now they speak of profitability and competitiveness . |
| 3 | Where once lifetime employment was said to be the key factor behind high productivity levels , the need to reduce labour costs now means that ‘ Lifetime employment is becoming something of a curse to Japanese industries ’ ( FTW 12/3/83 ) . |
| 4 | Yet on an island where even nature conservationists seem bent on taming every last acre , I think that the time may be ripe for bringing the word — and the kind of land it refers to — back into currency . |
| 5 | Thus in an extraordinary manner the physical manifestation of a woman 's fertility which had always been welcome and extolled in ancient and traditional Hindu society , where even mother earth was conceived to be menstruating in the beginning of the rainy season , came to be associated with a sin.s |
| 6 | By section 118(1) , the interpretation section of the Act , it is provided that , where neither income tax nor capital gains tax nor corporation tax is specified , the word ‘ tax ’ means any of those taxes . |
| 7 | As the chief location of tin mining , conditions confirm that an abundance of cheap labour tended to stimulate industrial growth , although naturally mineral extraction has to be carried on where the workable reserves happen to be located , using imported labour if necessary , as , it would seem , was precisely what was done in Penwith . |
| 8 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 9 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 10 | Their 13 1/2 mile route took the 14 participants through the streets of Grangemouth , Falkirk and Polmont , although only organiser Neil Redding and Brian Grozier completed the full route on skates . |
| 11 | The books is more than merely route descriptions though , as Harding recounts the times over the years he 's walked the various paths , adding anecdotes , descriptions of the people and insights into the history of the area . |
| 12 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 13 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |
| 14 | We had some discussion about competition , if I can use that word , between ourselves and and Leeds , but where Selby sits in in North Yorkshire we are in competition with with more than just West Yorkshire . |
| 15 | Arm yourself with more than just protection products if you are spending a day in the sun . |
| 16 | For Craigendarroch 's lodges are more than just holiday homes . |
| 17 | When United fans were kicking more than just sand castles down in Bournemouth , they wore T-shirts bearing the sinister motto ‘ Nobody Likes Us And We Do n't Care ’ . |
| 18 | It is important that as Christians we conceive of the corporation as a community which has as an objective more than just profit maximisation . |
| 19 | But the RET does more than just record unit success ; it will also record successful completion of a group award and recognitions attached to particular groups of units or modules . |
| 20 | And there 's , there 's things are not necessarily wrong , there 's the legitimate things , erm , wi within our work , th there 's a , there 's job satisfaction , but there 's more to that than , in life than just job satisfaction . |
| 21 | If the auditors ' role is to be expanded , however , the APB recognises that there has to be more than just shareholder involvement . |
| 22 | That 's why we 've become so much more than just plastic extruders . |
| 23 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 24 | Although traditionally sprinkler systems have been resisted in libraries , it has been shown that modern systems , which open and close individual sprinkler heads in response to temperature rise and fall , would prevent fires developing to the point at which structural collapse would occur , and would restrict water damage to a relatively small area of stack . |
| 25 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 26 | But if you do believe it then you must also believe the rest of it and realise that our relationship is destined to move along quite different channels than purely business ones . ’ |
| 27 | The work of Hubel and Wiesel , in particular , put the conception of neurones as ‘ feature detectors ’ , rather than simply energy detectors , on the map , supporting the idea that for each cell in the cortex there was a specific pattern of excitation that would reliably excite it . |
| 28 | They were not quite the least well educated : in our panel , Mirror readers had slightly less professional qualifications than even Sun/Star readers , though every other paper 's readers ( and non-readers ) had much more . |
| 29 | It was n't a question of social security payments being too high , it was a question of wages being lower than even government estimates of subsistence ! |
| 30 | If only cat owners realised the damage their pets do to garden birds . |