Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless , that is , you are either over six foot or want to take more than one friend with you . |
| 2 | More importantly , we conclude from this experiment that deletions of the promoter regions ( -2.3kb to -300bp ) which contain neuronal-specific hypersensitive sites either have no effect or appear to increase rather than decrease expression in HeLa cells . |
| 3 | ( 7 ) It must be a condition of any offer for voting equity share capital which could result in more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained that the offer may not become unconditional as to acceptances unless the offeror has acquired or agreed to acquire more than 50 per cent ( Rule 10 ) . |
| 4 | a passenger vehicle or dual-purpose vehicle being in either case a vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than 12 passengers exclusive of the driver ; |
| 5 | With effect from I January 1992 the ‘ old ’ offences at paragraphs ( f ) and ( g ) of regulation 27(1) of the 1986 Regulations no longer apply to passenger motor cars other than motor cars constructed or adapted to carry more than eight seated passengers in addition to the driver , or to goods vehicles with a maximum gross weight which does not exceed 3,500 kg . |
| 6 | It can " be done in spring or autumn when the soil is moist , but not waterlogged or dry , and if it is still warm from summer , or beginning to warm up as the spring sun appears . |
| 7 | In most cases , the ministers not directly involved had either read the brief late the previous night , or started to do so as the argument proceeded . ’ |
| 8 | When activity is taking place rapidly under pressure and with scant resources , there is a tendency to neglect to tell anyone what is going on or to fail to find out whether the ground may have already been covered by someone else . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese of Leeds said : ‘ Those who criticise or accuse do so as private individuals . |
| 10 | The only restrictions on purchasers were not to have owned their own home during the previous three years or to have spent more than $100,000 on their prospective North Side home . |
| 11 | You need the help I can give you because if you unknowingly make a false move or fail to react promptly because you 're not sure what to do , your daughter will be dispensed with as being too risky a property . |
| 12 | First , there is n't much left of the building and second , some of the aircraft pieces were lost or had blown more than a mile away . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the court will order by mandamus a visitor to exercise his jurisdiction if he refuses or fails to do so since if he does not , no one else can . |
| 14 | Claudia stared at her linked fingers and planned to get away as soon as they stopped . |
| 15 | Many mothers have difficulty in interpreting the demands of their baby and tend to feed rather than play or comfort in other ways . |
| 16 | The NGC would present the whole of its evidence at the beginning of the inquiry , held mainly in Northallerton and expected to last more than two months . |
| 17 | I gave up at half a dozen , desultorily checked a few share prices and failed to read more than two paragraphs of an article on the gilt-edged market . |
| 18 | Mother went to visit her relatives in Hungary , near Szeged , and got caught there when the Russians advanced . |
| 19 | To this day it is the address to which Diana has her private mail directed and has done ever since she suspected Fergie was visiting the Buckingham Palace post room in order to tell Prince Charles who was writing confidential letters to his wife . |
| 20 | My uncle worships alone these days , and has done ever since his son left home to become a devout Capitalist ( neither his wife nor his daughter had ever bothered with my Uncle 's unique brand of condemnationist Christianity ; as a rule , the McHoan women , whether so by blood or marriage , have displayed a marked reluctance to take their men-folk 's passions seriously , at least outside the bedroom ) . |
| 21 | He limps now , and has done ever since I can remember . |
| 22 | Flight Sergeant Pritcard is the team coach and has made more than three thousand jumps . |
| 23 | It is one of a limited number of boats designed by the car maker and has cost more than £20,000 to restore . |
| 24 | This farming systems has proved self-sustainable for the past 2,000 years and has altered little except that summer ( wet season ) rice crops were once combined in the same fields with winter ( dry season ) legumes , whereas the winter crop is now wheat . |
| 25 | The group raised a thumping £560m through a rights issue last year and has shed more than 84,000 jobs worldwide in an effort to reduce its overheads . |
| 26 | Large-scale use of set-nets in the Amazon is recent , and has come about because of the worldwide availability of cheap monofilament nylon nets . |
| 27 | The Reagan administration has asked for $709.3 million for ballistic missile defence ( BMD ) for 1984 , and has proposed more than double that for 1985 . |
| 28 | He made his debut for Gloucestershire in 1981 and has taken more than 400 first-class wickets . |
| 29 | I would like help from those who have taken on responsibility to inform groups of the changes and want to find out where they found materials which were user friendly . |
| 30 | Crime and tort relate closely as well , not only obviously by virtue of the same facts giving rise to different legal consequences but also , more interestingly , since the corning into effect of s. 35 of the Powers of the Criminal Courts Act 1973 , by virtue of the criminal courts pre-empting the civil courts in the matter of compensation , perhaps even in circumstances where no private right of action otherwise obtains . |