Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone once described this as sorting out the knots in the knitting and then taking pride in wearing the jumper . |
| 2 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 3 | In fact , at most matches , they do very little at all except set up a few chants when things are a bit quiet . |
| 4 | There is some argument that the UCTA is doing no more than spell out a rule about what is really voluntary acceptance , which is already in the common law ( ICI v Shatwell [ 1965 ] AC 656 ) . |
| 5 | A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack , riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave . |
| 6 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 7 | THE jump in retail sales last month of 1.6 per cent was roughly twice what the City had expected and more than made good the disappointing fall of 1 per cent in December . |
| 8 | Whether this moderate tower in St Enoch 's Square will do more than brighten up a few central shopping streets remains to be seen . |
| 9 | The losses look likely more than to wipe out the projected profits on the ECR90 project . |
| 10 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 11 | Treasury chiefs are furious at the move that more than wipes out the benefits of the scrapping of the car sales tax . |
| 12 | All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies . |
| 13 | Fortunately , it was obvious that Luke had done no more than drop off a suitcase . |
| 14 | From the off he had me convinced that by helping him I was doing no more than carving out a new life for myself as a better citizen , a better human being . |
| 15 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |
| 16 | Seventeen add a minus ten the same as take away a positive take away a positive ten , and add a positive three . |
| 17 | Add a negative number , this is when I said I 'm going to add minus eight pounds to your money tonight , add a negative number is the same as take away a positive number . |
| 18 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
| 19 | Not the same as putting on a big performance though is it ? |
| 20 | Recognising an opportunity area is not quite the same as putting together a specific concept and a plan of operating . |