Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a different system had prevailed at Wyvis Hall , or rather no system had prevailed at all . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 3 | Or perhaps the car has really given up and it 's time for a new , or good second-hand one . |
| 4 | However , in families where only the father had achieved literacy , child mortality is lower than in others where neither parent had done so . |
| 5 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 6 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 7 | Within a day or so the goods had been divided between the landlord and Mahmoud and removed from the premises . |
| 8 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 9 | In the past week or so the Sheikh has won the Coronation Cup with Opera House and the Oaks with Intrepidity . |
| 10 | For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation . |
| 11 | In the last decade or so the area has become fairly well known as the centre of production of red wine which has risen in the hierarchy of wines of Languedoc : it should achieve further fame for its ponts naturels . |
| 12 | For a millennium or so the Bugis have followed the monsoon trading cycle — surging east on the west monsoon all the way to Aru , at the forbidding lip of New Guinea 's swamps , and west again on the east monsoon beyond Borneo all the way to Sumatra . |
| 13 | John Allison , formidable fund raiser for muscular dystrophy research , has 3,000 plastic duckettes in his garage ( or so the canard has it . ) |
| 14 | Within a day or so the newcomers have appointments fixed with social security to get some money and when it looks as if they 're staying , negotiations begin with schools to admit their children . |
| 15 | Had the operator of the giant video screen been allowed to go on merrily replaying the more explosive moments , there could have been rioting on the terraces , where already the stewards had their work cut out . |
| 16 | The research was conducted through the collection of data at the conclusion of an investigation or once a referral had been dealt with and closed via other action . |
| 17 | Where once the banks had access to regulated supplies of cheap money , they now have to raise nearly 70% of their funds in the open market . |
| 18 | But her garden smelled of honeysuckle and jasmine and roses from the bushes which grew where once the hens had scratched . |
| 19 | ‘ In other words , ’ I answered , ‘ the Earl of Angus bedded where once the falcon had , between the sheets with Queen Margaret . ’ |
| 20 | An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars . |
| 21 | The structure of the society , too , may vary from a large extended family system where care for all dependants — the young , the elderly , the mentally handicapped , the ill — is shared , to the small nuclear family , typical of the Western world , where often the state has taken over many of the traditional caring activities of the family , with their attendant safety aspects . |
| 22 | Nine out of ten they 'll wait until we 've gone passed , or even the police have gone passed , before they 'll commit an offence . |
| 23 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 24 | Or maybe the mission had failed but she had survived . |
| 25 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 26 | This is in marked contrast to desktop publishing programs where almost every element has to be created externally and then imported . |
| 27 | The nearer the pilgrim approached the Pyrenees the deeper he penetrated a countryside where almost every landmark had some kind of association with Roland . |
| 28 | The ordinary must be made dramatic or else the language has no tension . |
| 29 | And second , the attitudes and temperament of any family with whom the child is already living and where either the parents have already become the psychological parents or else the intention is that they should become so . |
| 30 | Sister Asuncion 's convent was completely destroyed by a bomb attack , although luckily the community had been warned and everyone had gone into hiding . |