Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geophysical methods have been successfully applied to such mapping in two areas : at Coleorton , Leicestershire , where abandoned near-surface coal workings lie on the line of a new trunk road ; and at Hayle , Cornwall , where shafts of old copper mines were detected at the site of a new water-treatment plant . |
| 2 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
| 3 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 4 | To gain the maximum benefit from each interview ( if you are aiming to learn a proper selection technique rather than treat each interview selection as a one-off event ) you should do a thorough follow-up . |
| 5 | IMHO it is a much better idea in the long run to post the material to an anonymous FTP location rather than wasting valuable Internet bandwidth E-Mailing the material around the list ! |
| 6 | Rather than organizing mass midnight meetings to confront the evil in working-class areas she judged it more effective for women to go into the ‘ dens of infamy ’ in the morning as friends and advisers . |
| 7 | It 's part of a ten million pounds appeal to show people that there 's more to scouting than singing round camp fires . |
| 8 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 9 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 10 | Rather than accepting this end point , they want to push on and ask how individuals got the properties — including their desires , intentions and so forth that are regarded as root causes by individualists . |
| 11 | It will take the London office market years to recover from the 1980s hangover and it is hard to identify any areas of growth other than building all-seater football stadiums . |
| 12 | He estimates it is ‘ cheaper to discard books already in stock , rather than building additional storage space of reader access quality , if the books in question have a prospective frequency of use that has fallen below once in about 13 years ’ . |
| 13 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 14 | The feeling that the centre only wanted financial and technical control to check every detail of their action , rather than to stimulate responsible management decentralisation , inevitably increased . |
| 15 | These ratings of a specific meaning were made possible by a two-stage assessment procedure carried out by the members of the research team , rather than using self-rating questionnaire methods . |
| 16 | The major disadvantage is that the Works database function is a flat-file system , rather than a relational database , so that comparisons between separate databases had to made manually , rather than using relational database technology . |
| 17 | The problem was that rather than landing Portuguese champion club Cascais in the semis they were drawn against the Saltires in a re-run of last year 's final . |
| 18 | Production was now centralized at Pinewood Studios , with Davis 's former personal assistant Earl St John , a one-time exhibitor , put in charge of making ‘ inexpensive films without artistic pretensions , films that had no other object than to provide good family entertainment and show a profit . ’ |
| 19 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 20 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 21 | Togetherness meant more than keeping each other company ; it meant that a man 's place was also in the home . |
| 22 | She begged Charlie to sell Granpa 's old barrow to raise another pound , but Charlie 's reply was always the same — ‘ Never ’ — before adding that he would rather starve and leave the relic to rot in the back yard than let another hand wheel it away . |
| 23 | The fact that Teacher Placement Service has not had supply cover , although causing short term difficulties has improved the long term chances of success , as such additional external government funding would be temporary in nature . |
| 24 | McKean and Murray have now scored doubles at three major events — the 1989 World Cup in Barcelona , the 1990 European Championships in Split and now Toronto — but rather than give each other confidence by their successes , Boyle believes it 's more a case of ‘ anything you can do , I can do better . ’ |
| 25 | Rather than give young children charcoal immediately on presentation , we suggest confining it to the few who develop symptoms — in a dose sufficient to increase elimination of the drug . |
| 26 | Other than wanting local authority control of further education , Labour has no policy on that matter either . |
| 27 | But the opportunity has been used to create positions in ‘ new areas of interest , information technology and craft design and technology ’ , rather than to replace lost arts posts . |
| 28 | Universal Software Inc. offer a PSAM package that achieves improvement by splitting additions between blocks in the prime data area — i.e. providing distributed free space — rather than defining separate overflow areas . |
| 29 | In his statement , Trafalgar 's chief executive Sir Eric Parker FCA said that ‘ in view of the state of the commercial property market , we decided at the beginning of the year to retain certain properties rather than selling high quality assets at unattractive prices ’ . |
| 30 | InterCity had to solve the problem of getting its passengers from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury and chose to do so by hiring a bus rather than paying another railway sector to do the job . |