Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this does any good ; it just makes Washington wonder what exactly Mr Clinton is in charge of . |
| 2 | One of these had also hypergastrinaemia . |
| 3 | The first four of these had mainly family farms and the pattern was understandable but the Wester Ross response was more difficult to explain . |
| 4 | The generally-accepted explanation for welfare payment levels in the South is that they are , and have been , low because of : the relative poverty of the southern States , which would call for a high fiscal effort if payments equivalent to those made further north were to be offered to the larger number of poor there ; the electoral safety of the Democratic party with regard to the southern State legislatures and governorships , for over a century — sustained by discriminatory practices which prevented many blacks becoming registered voters despite their legal achievement of civil rights ; and the widespread belief among southern whites in the racial inferiority of blacks — who are the main recipients of welfare benefits coupled with the perceived work-disincentive effects of substantial payments and the encouragement to have even larger , and thus more dependent , families than they are believed to provide . |
| 5 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |