Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many exam candidates lose marks simply because they do n't bother to read the question carefully enough and therefore fail to answer the question that 's posed . |
| 2 | According to the interference theory , animals forget things not because memory fades but because other memories displace them . |
| 3 | But I have to tell you that a man such as Niccolò needs sons less than he needs marriage , and needs a woman at present not at all . |
| 4 | Labour needs members more than ever to help form policies relevant to ordinary people and to get those policies across . |
| 5 | In those circumstances I have always found it wise to abandon effort and leave the subconscious mind to sort things out while the conscious mind does something quite different . |
| 6 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't prove that lay readers enjoy books more than professional critics ; but I can tell you one advantage we have over them . |
| 8 | Although you advised readers to use blankets rather than duvets , another feature in the same issue had a photograph of a cot with duvet and cot bumper — inside was a six-month-old baby . |
| 9 | ‘ My first priority is to feed my wife and two children , but the German win has given me respite of about 13 months to consider medals rather than money . |
| 10 | Forming the intention to adopt beliefs only when they correspond to reality postpones the settlement of belief : we are forced to adopt rules which , while they are guaranteed to reveal reality to us in the long run , are not guaranteed to do so in the short run . |
| 11 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 12 | Labelling of subjects presents problems mainly because , in order to achieve a user-orientated system , the various potential approaches of different users must be catered for . |
| 13 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 14 | We may conclude that rhythmic shapes determine melodies more than do pitch patterns . |
| 15 | It aims to help inform the current public debate and a series of statements is expected to be produced in an attempt to take matters forward when the conference ends today . |
| 16 | Their weapons , equipment and tactics take decades rather than years to develop . |
| 17 | However the sheer flexibility of such facilities tends to encourage authors to produce drafts well before they have got all their thoughts in order . |
| 18 | Hence the marginal cost of producing the last film must be the value of the meals sacrificed by using the last units of labour to make films rather than meals . |
| 19 | Service trades offer the opportunity to create jobs quicker because they fulfil a requirement that already exists , rather than attempting to create a market for a new product and often having to wait for factories to be built and machinery installed . |
| 20 | This leads record companies to treat musicians not as wage-labourers but as contracted ‘ artists ’ who are paid not a fixed sum for their labour-time but in royalties , in proportion to their success ( ibid : 130 ) . |
| 21 | Jonathon made ships downstairs while Uncle Philip constructed his swan and planned how it should be strung . |
| 22 | Three people talking are harder to handle than two , so Betjeman uses names more than Ozick . |
| 23 | The final paragraph should have explained that our objection to the proposal to put steps down if the path slipped due to the retaining wall collapsing was that a ) steps would be dangerous for the many elderly people who used the footpath ; b ) it would mean the council cutting into our upper bank and undermining our house garden wall and c ) the council should consider the alternative access to the path offered by our neighbour , Mr M Jones if they did not intend to preserve the present route . |
| 24 | In the current political climate , with the state sector steadily withdrawing from the provision of public services and the private sector providing alternatives only where there is a possibility of profit , the third sector of the economy , that of charitable organisations , becomes increasingly important . |
| 25 | In fact , of course , this essentially non-capitalist approach to work benefited employers rather than workers . |
| 26 | Police had to erect barriers to keep crowds back as Charles was warmly greeted by hundreds of wellwishers as he arrived at Dundee 's City Square . |
| 27 | The ITV companies pay royalties only after sales , but they will soon have to negotiate a new deal . |
| 28 | So shots of the family 's arrival help to start things off while the picnic marks the middle of the day , and serves to break up what might otherwise be a too lengthy sequence of beach games . |
| 29 | ‘ But I am not bitter over how Sam Hammam handled things even though it had all become a bit of a nightmare for me . |
| 30 | Then , under pressure from the Chancellor , Whitehall insisted on the manufacturers diverting turbines and other equipment to export markets rather than to the BEA . |