Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trace Computers Plc blames the fall in turnover for the six months to November 30 ( figures , see page five ) , on a planned reduction in the scale of its computer supplies business , where turnover fell by nearly £1m ; the company managed to shave £122,000 from its administrative and operating costs ; the original businesses of insurance broking systems , property management systems and bespoke software development have continued to prosper , the company says , and the Proteus distribution systems business , consolidated on its return to profits last year ; Trace Financial also made a small profit and there was interest in the BlueChip stockbroking product ; the group is still investing about £2m a year in research and development — with some contribution from its customers ; the Pink networking technology company had a disappointing half year , turning in a small loss after having made a profit last year . |
| 2 | For Draper , the principle of expanding only into related fields , where Virgin had at least a margin of experience and expertise , was sacrosanct . |
| 3 | The existence of a cheap national network of accommodation , however diffuse , unstructured and unregulated , is one reason why Forte and other groups have not opened super-budget hotels like their French counterpart Accor , where rooms sell at approximately £15 a night . |
| 4 | Roger Short , of the Medical Research Council 's Reproduction Research Unit in Edinburgh , had predicted that in species where females mate with more than one male during a reproductive cycle , the males would have larger testes for their body size than in species whose females had only a single mate per cycle . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the tale of woe continued at Fruithill Park on Saturday , where Falls tumbled to yet another defeat , this time at the hands of NICS . |
| 6 | It should be noted that the programme will have been more than 50% spent by then ( around £4m ) . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 8 | By this time , all provinces except Zambezia had at least 40 per cent female enrolment . |
| 9 | In both subjects these concentrations were considerably lower than concentrations obtained with previously studied pharmaceutical patches ( 8.6 µg/l and 20.0 µg/l ) . |
| 10 | It is easier to visualise Oxford rather than Cambridge coming from behind , and here the experience of Oxford 's Cal Maclennan , in his third Boat Race , and Peter Bridge could be crucial . |
| 11 | While Molloy and Carroll use groupings which are slightly different from those used by Bourner and Hamed , the overall picture is clear in that a substantial number of those student groups entering with qualifications other than A-levels perform at least as well , and in some cases better , than those with A level entry . |
| 12 | Although cardboard accounts for only a small fraction of waste produced by the company , it has the advantage of being easily recycled . |
| 13 | Buildings founded upon highly shrinkable clay soil are more likely to be affected by subsidence than buildings founded upon less shrinkable organic soil . |
| 14 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 15 | The town 's generally accepted name is Durobrivae , although variations occur in both the Antonine Itinerary and Ravenna list . |
| 16 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 17 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 18 | No changes between groups were seen at day 3 , although levels decreased by about sixfold in all groups between days 3 and 7 ( Fig 7 ) . |
| 19 | In a report in Retail Business , the Economist Intelligence Unit said that although Scotch remained by far the best-selling spirit , its share of the total spirits market had dropped from 50.5 per cent in 1981 to around 40.6 per cent in 1992 . |
| 20 | But that book gave the astonishing statistic that in nineteen ninety , or nineteen eighty eight in the U S , more men died from breast cancer in the U S than women died from heterosexually contracted AIDS . |
| 21 | Although Homer dealt with allegedly historical subjects , his was ‘ aristocratic ’ history , involving no chronology , no temporal continuity with later ages , and no real sense of the passage of time . |
| 22 | If isolation lasts for long enough , they may become so different that , if they meet again , they behave as distinct species . |
| 23 | So you got the whole spectrum of , or if you 're just doing it like French dictation , it wo n't , if words tend to just , to just be spoken language , right through to an immensely detailed erm , attempts to put everything down , including tone of the voice , and all these other ones which are extremely difficult to I think you noticed that I was standing looking at the transcriptions near each team . |
| 24 | If Levitation dropped at least three songs from their set tonight they could have been dynamically interesting instead of sparsely tedious , but at least they would n't get invites to a House Of Love musical appreciation party . |
| 25 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 26 | If Cartha lose by more than 53 points to Lismore on Saturday they will go down . |
| 27 | If imports account for close to 50% of UK sales in those sectors , a 10% devaluation would directly raise the RPI by around 2% over a period of , say , one to two years . |
| 28 | If attacks come from above , running fast is less effective . |
| 29 | The real irony is that if Israel continues to systematically close all community service institutions , while the government sector has all but collapsed , then the people will be left with no option but to organise things for themselves … in the end only the popular committees will be left . |
| 30 | If people come from all over the country to try our beers its good for us . |