Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crypt was not yet finished and , strangely enough , was the only place in that entire abbey where Eadred seemed rather nervous and unwilling to linger . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The procedure adopted was to err as far as possible on the side of conservatism , scoring each reply as ‘ psychotic ’ only where this seemed reasonably certain . |
| 4 | Virtually every single item on the list of what ‘ we ’ as English , French , Germans or Czechs are said to have in common , can be acquired by immigrants who wish to do so , except physical appearance , where this differs very markedly from the norm of the receiving population . |
| 5 | Where this has already happened , particularly in the case of automobile parts , it tends to be connected with local content requirements . |
| 6 | Yet a mere glance at the list will reveal the predominance of the I form ( 960 times in my count , taking all first-person forms : I/me/my/myself/mine ) and the You or Thou form ( 890 times , including thou/thee/thy/thine/thyself ; you/ye/your/yours/yourself ) , over the third-person forms , where these imply either a third-person account of the beloved ( He in Sonnets 1–126 : 51 times ; She in Sonnets 127–52 : 31 times ) or a reference to some third party with whom the poet or his beloved is having a relationship ( She in Sonnets 1–126 : 11 instances ; He in Sonnets 127–52 : 22 instances ; total 33 ) . |
| 7 | Of a Republic , where all stood thus far |
| 8 | I hope that the results of the public inquiry will be announced shortly and that the advance works on the link can be started before the end of the year , although that depends wholly on the outcome of the general election , because , as I said , the Opposition are committed to reducing expenditure on roads and vital pieces of road infrastructure such as that for which my hon. Friend rightly argues would be threatened by a Labour Government . |
| 9 | Some say the lion was set up to celebrate a victory over the Venetians — although that seems barely credible , a defeated , down-trodden beast being the more usual symbol for a defeated enemy — others that it simply marks the position of the old eastern gate , through which travellers to and from Venice would go . |
| 10 | Taken together all these can explain the existence in England of a home market for manufactured goods which was both wider and more dynamic than that offered anywhere on the continent . |
| 11 | Comment is perhaps easier on a more general level than that attempted above . |
| 12 | One option for holders , of course , was to leave the dollars on deposit with a US bank but this was discouraged by US banking regulations which prevented interest from being paid on deposits of less than thirty days and limited the rate payable on longer deposits to less than that obtaining elsewhere . |
| 13 | By taking a broader view of the family network than that provided solely by kin , one can explore the network of relationships which are significant to the client . |
| 14 | The essay by Carrier and Kendall ( see n. 2 ) explores that debate , and arrives at a more positive stance on the distinctive character of the subject as an academic discipline than that suggested here . |
| 15 | THE recommended code of practice , which the Press Council hopes to operate from March 1 1990 , is much fuller than that published recently by national newspapers , writes Georgina Henry . |
| 16 | According to the Scottish Agriculture and Fisheries Department , the cadmium level was only slightly higher than that found naturally in the area . |
| 17 | The final studies to be reviewed in this chapter help , we believe , to take us a little nearer understanding that paradox , as well as offering more convincing evidence than that considered so far that the connection between creativity and psychosis is indeed genuine . |
| 18 | But keep in mind the possibility that Candida is the culprit — some cases of candidiasis need far more stringent treatment than that described so far . |
| 19 | Shearman and colleagues also claim that at 8.4% the prevalence of aneurysms in Birmingham is greater than that reported elsewhere . |
| 20 | Based on these findings , and on those by Villanova et al showing that : ( i ) patients with multiple primary stones tend to develop multiple recurrent stones while those who originally had solitary stones tend to develop single stone recurrence ; and ( ii ) the recurrence rate in those who initially had solitary stones is only one third of that in patients who originally had multiple stones , we can predict that as patients selected for extra corporeal shock wave dissolution mainly have solitary stones , the recurrence rate after lithotripsy should be lower than that reported here . |
| 21 | She had fully expected Penry to dismiss them as nonsense , and felt so shattered that he had n't that it took her longer than usual to clear away and leave the kitchen immaculate . |
| 22 | He who fondles you more than usual has either deceived you or wants to do so ( French proverb ) . |
| 23 | In the new Parliament we will continue to seek to re-establish stable institutions of Government in Northern Ireland , so that powers currently exercised by Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office can be returned to locally-elected politicians . |
| 24 | More than two-thirds have previously been involved in making an acquisition and most are in their forties . |
| 25 | Guidance as to the cost of the next stage should be given , although this becomes progressively more difficult . |
| 26 | Last year 's deficit was about £125 million ( although this compares well with the comparable figure for the UK which is almost three times higher ) and this year the deficit will probably be about the same . |
| 27 | The average man 's ejaculate contains an estimated 200,000,000 sperm , although this represents just two per cent of the total ejaculate ; the other ninety-eight per cent consists of the mucus-like semen . |
| 28 | There are about 2,600 housing associations in England and Wales with a total stock of over 600,000 dwellings , and although this represents only about 3 per cent of all dwellings , the associations ' share of the total stock will increase substantially as the full impact of the 1988 Act begins to be felt . |
| 29 | Although this lasted only for three monthly issues , it was an early indication of Knowles 's journalistic instincts . |
| 30 | Gorbachev ordered Chief of Staff Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev to withdraw troops to barracks , although this had already been done . |