Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general terms , we advocated that there should be explicit teaching about the nature and functions of Standard English in the top years of the primary school ; that there should be the beginnings of the expectation of Standard English in written work when appropriate by the age of 11 ; that there should be the provision of opportunities for oral work where spoken Standard English would be a realistic expectation in the secondary school ; and that all pupils should be in a position to choose to use Standard English in speech when appropriate by the age of 16 . |
| 2 | Geophysical methods have been successfully applied to such mapping in two areas : at Coleorton , Leicestershire , where abandoned near-surface coal workings lie on the line of a new trunk road ; and at Hayle , Cornwall , where shafts of old copper mines were detected at the site of a new water-treatment plant . |
| 3 | They may be older , they may have different qualifications , they may come from a family background where entering higher education is not a traditional path to a career . |
| 4 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
| 5 | Although using different wording , the end result is identical . |
| 6 | To gain the maximum benefit from each interview ( if you are aiming to learn a proper selection technique rather than treat each interview selection as a one-off event ) you should do a thorough follow-up . |
| 7 | IMHO it is a much better idea in the long run to post the material to an anonymous FTP location rather than wasting valuable Internet bandwidth E-Mailing the material around the list ! |
| 8 | Rather than organizing mass midnight meetings to confront the evil in working-class areas she judged it more effective for women to go into the ‘ dens of infamy ’ in the morning as friends and advisers . |
| 9 | Cash with order or cash on delivery is always better than cash some time in the future . |
| 10 | In addition , the access and use of the medical services reinforce rather than counteract this tendency . |
| 11 | It 's part of a ten million pounds appeal to show people that there 's more to scouting than singing round camp fires . |
| 12 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 13 | In theory a statute could do no more than declare existing law ; and statutes were cast in a declaratory form . |
| 14 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 15 | The 20 percenters , as they are colloquially known , receive benefits which more than compensate this year for their 20 per cent . |
| 16 | Better to continue to suffer under its domination and its oppression than gain economic power through blood and slaughter . |
| 17 | So , it takes longer to eradicate old learning ( bad intellectual habits ) than to acquire new learning ( good intellectual habits ) . |
| 18 | Better to buy time with covert operations and the steady working of violence , crime and racketeering than to risk vote-endangering controversy . |
| 19 | Cohen stresses therefore , the collective response as central to delinquency , rather than seeing such behaviour as an individual response to the failure to achieve middle-class goals , as Merton argued . |
| 20 | Rather than seeing political struggle as ultimately reflecting class struggle , the liberal tradition credits the leading actors in the historical drama with an independence and causative importance of their own . |
| 21 | ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said . |
| 22 | How many truly realise that quality is knowing your buyer , getting him or her to define quality , rather than producing some sort of static standard which demands slavish conformance ? |
| 23 | Rather than accepting this end point , they want to push on and ask how individuals got the properties — including their desires , intentions and so forth that are regarded as root causes by individualists . |
| 24 | Rather than answer this question , Marjorie reverts to an earlier one . |
| 25 | It will take the London office market years to recover from the 1980s hangover and it is hard to identify any areas of growth other than building all-seater football stadiums . |
| 26 | Rather than building new material and research collections , the Academy will coordinate access by its Fellows to these existing resources . |
| 27 | He estimates it is ‘ cheaper to discard books already in stock , rather than building additional storage space of reader access quality , if the books in question have a prospective frequency of use that has fallen below once in about 13 years ’ . |
| 28 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 29 | In their view it was nothing more than delayed public spending in instalments . |
| 30 | ‘ The middle , ’ Reyce continues , ‘ although enjoying much meddow and pasture , yett far more tillage doe from thence raise their cheifest maintenance . ’ |