Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where to go when you 're there |
| 2 | The stags ' antlers are cast each year and are best left where found as they are nibbled and eaten to recycle the chemicals and nutrients needed for growing the next set , which is probably more useful than lying in the loft at home or being turned into a table lamp . |
| 3 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 4 | The question in the last sentence can not be answered , of course ; it is imponderable and we can go no further with it than to agree that it is useful to expose such uncertainties now and then . |
| 5 | As the leading opponent of orthodoxy within the RCM , Elaine Blond enjoyed nothing better than proving that her critics were less than perfect . |
| 6 | Holmes does however more than compensate because he is the most affectionate and cuddly dog I have ever known . |
| 7 | He refused to elaborate on his message except to confirm that it fell within the framework of UN Security Council resolutions , and that it had been delivered to an Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister , Sa'adoun Hammadi , who had visited Tehran on Feb. 1-3 . |
| 8 | To quench is more than to refresh although our lying , lascivious eyes tell us the two are the same . |
| 9 | He was leaving behind ideas of training as a test pilot , which he had kept in mind as a second choice of career , although doubting that he would obtain the necessary academic qualifications . |
| 10 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 11 | In a speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 he announced that it was better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it began to abolish itself from below . |
| 12 | Respondents were than asked whether their school 's report had been submitted to the LEA yet . |
| 13 | Despite the exceptions , it seems better in many ways to attempt to produce some stress rules ( even if they are rather crude and inaccurate ) than to claim that there is no rule or regularity in English word stress . |
| 14 | On returning to the box and resuming his duties , he was more puzzled than frightened for he did not believe in ghosts . |
| 15 | Why the hell should I look at the roof except to see if there was a satellite TV dish . |
| 16 | Gorbachev declined to comment on the talks , other than to indicate that they had been inspired by the scale of the commercial links which already existed between their countries . |
| 17 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 18 | These facts do no more , however , than suggest that one ought not to rule out the possibility that Molla Fenari may have made the pilgrimage in company with Seyh Zeyneddin . |
| 19 | A savage new twist to the personal computer price-performance ratchet is in prospect after Advanced Micro Devices Inc announced yesterday that it will plunge straight into the 80486 market with a family of devices using Intel Corp microcode rather than wait until its own ‘ clean ’ version of the chip is ready in June . |
| 20 | A savage new twist to the personal computer price-performance ratchet is in prospect after Advanced Micro Devices Inc announced yesterday that it will plunge straight into the 80486 market with a family of devices using Intel Corp microcode rather than wait until its own ‘ clean ’ version of the chip is ready in June . |
| 21 | I know I know I 'm taking it out of order but rather than wait until we get there , this has been raised , why ca n't we deal with it now ? |
| 22 | It would be better if you contacted the police rather than wait until they arrive to question you . ’ |
| 23 | This is why it is better to see a doctor when you first feel unwell rather than wait until it is so bad that you have to go to hospital . |
| 24 | If there is a change of harmonic outlook in a piece , I prefer to feel , rather than to know whether it might arrive as a surprise , whether it should be prepared and how , and whether it ought to be pointed out at all ! |
| 25 | General statements that investment appraisals should include data on , for example , product enhancement , diversification , risk reduction and increased internal benefits do little more than say that something new is needed . |
| 26 | Gilmore replied , ‘ I can not do much more than say that what was said was absolute nonsense . ’ |
| 27 | I can do no more here than say that I believe that they illuminate some of the processes whereby females come to wish to disassociate themselves from mathematics and other scientific and/or technical activities . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed not to be doing the film , ’ Crawford added , ‘ but I would rather that people remember enjoying my performance in the play than say that I did n't quite pull it off in the film . ’ |
| 29 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 30 | She will not respond except to indicate that you are a chancer or a smoothie who is attempting to circumvent the proper rules and procedures . |