Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 2 | Herpex simplex virus infection causing a mucocutaneous ulcer that persists for more than 1 month , or bronchitis , pneumonitis , or oesophagitis for any duration in a patient > 1 month of age . |
| 3 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 4 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |
| 5 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 6 | The surprise is not that an accountant stands for Labour while an iron and steel worker is an Alliance candidate , but rather that the class basis of the two sets of candidates is so distinct . |
| 7 | ‘ Ask not for whom the box-office till rings : it rings for all when the missing millions creep out of their burrows to find enchantment waiting for them . ’ |
| 8 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 9 | His portrait is n't in Perth 's exclusive Weld Club , where influence counts for more than cash . |
| 10 | It confirms that breeding still counts for more than achievement . |
| 11 | And a number of other texts stress the fact that obedience counts for more than sacrifice ( e.g. 1 Samuel 15:22–23 ; Psalm 40:6–8 ) . |
| 12 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects , and then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again in an infinite regress , so he has a problem , basically , about calling beauty itself beautiful . |
| 13 | And then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again , in an infinite regress . |
| 14 | At least 2,000,000 people had been made homeless by the war , the report said , and it estimated food aid needs for 1991 as totalling approximately 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 15 | human growth looks like that as well . |
| 16 | He is worried about various formalities relating to written contracts , and wonders in particular whether hire purchase agreements need to be in writing , whether any special formalities apply to contracts of employment , and if a contract leasing premises needs to be in any particular form . |
| 17 | It begins gently at first , a pipe bridge , a lattice canal footbridge and an arched cable bridge , and then develops in earnest as sliproads flail through the air , the M6 crosses , the Birmingham to Lichfield railway passes through and ever more sliproads arc over until the canal passes into a large box tunnel with two towpaths below the A38M Aston Expressway before emerging into the relative simplicity of Salford Junction below the M6 . |
| 18 | Although it looks from this as though each word has its own history , certain generalizations can be based on these figures . |
| 19 | The revenue from the product also starts from zero when none are sold and rises proportionately to invoiced sales . |
| 20 | DEFENDING champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf could both be missing when Wimbledon starts in less than a fortnight . |
| 21 | Formally , ordinal scales are asymmetrical in that if A is greater than B , B can not be greater than A. Transitivity still holds in that if A is greater than B , and B is greater than C , then A is greater than C. It is these properties which enable us to order cases along a continuum . |
| 22 | This matters to more than just those smooth scions of the British upper class who work in this singular insurance market , or to those who pledge their wealth , as ‘ names ’ , to back the market 's underwriting syndicates . |
| 23 | Later on each of the souls pouring out of Narnia on Doomsday looks at Aslan as it comes through the Door-way of Death — to be saved if it loves , destroyed if it hates . |
| 24 | None of this matters at all provided the ferrets work efficiently . |
| 25 | West German electoral law prescribes that in principle the magnitude of a constituency should not deviate by more than 25% from the average , and that if it deviates by more than 33.3% its boundaries must be redrawn . |
| 26 | He thinks of wicked as being good , he does n't , cause Mandy says wicked . |
| 27 | It is certainly the sort of thing that Garel-Jones says in private because he often describes himself and his family in similar terms . |
| 28 | ‘ You may find it results in more than you can handle . ’ |
| 29 | On Barro Colorado Island , pollinator specificity occurs in fewer than half of the orchid species and host specificity of the bees is also rare . |
| 30 | Death occurs in less than a minute , due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles . ’ |