Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMPUTER users , both professional and amateur , dread power cuts because even a short interruption can lose all the data in the machine 's memory . |
| 2 | The appointment of the interim receiver terminates when either the petition is dismissed or a bankruptcy order is made , and can also be terminated by the court on the application of the interim receiver , the official receiver ( if not the interim receiver ) , the debtor or any creditor ( r 6.57 ) . |
| 3 | Beluga whales emit distress calls when even a conventional icebreaker is 80 k ( 50 miles ) away , and flee when such vessels approach within 40 k ( 25 miles ) . |
| 4 | It mentions as well the growth of new ways of accessing information , from online public access catalogues ( OPACs ) , through CD-ROMs and online searching , to the more recent network navigation tools . |
| 5 | More boys than girls are in the lowest mathematics sets although quite a number obtained fairly high test scores on the GT4 test . |
| 6 | As the hole narrows , the overlap of light from nearby points decreases until eventually a reasonably clear image is obtained . |
| 7 | The skin beneath them gradually swells until eventually the eggs are seated in little sockets and he carries them until they hatch . |
| 8 | The planning of operations to be carried out by L Detachment remains as hitherto the prerogative of L Detachment . |
| 9 | She seemed ready to attend one of those cocktail parties where she smeared her lips on cheeks and glasses and cigarettes and napkins and biscuits and cocktail sticks until barely a foot of the room was not decorated in red . |
| 10 | The network capacity problem arises because currently the company 's System X and AXE 10 digital exchanges do not support ISDN directly — instead , customers are served through special multiplexors hanging off the side . |
| 11 | A significant difference between Phaistos and Knossos arises because virtually the whole of the first temple at Phaistos was replaced when the site was redeveloped after the 1700 BC destruction : only the Central Court remained . |
| 12 | This is where Alan Davies came in , and if the latest coach 's previous career with England B , the Midlands and Nottingham had proved anything it was that pragmatism — what you have to do — comes before even the noblest notion of what you would like to do . |
| 13 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 14 | ‘ Being reminded that she 's actually married always comes as rather a blow , ’ Luke commented , watching her go . |
| 15 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 16 | Stop-start combining , with most wheats still some way off ripening , comes as quite a change compared with the past two years . |
| 17 | ‘ The amount of studying for the exams comes as quite a shock ’ |