Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 've reached the point where you want publication , where seeing your work in print is necessary to you in order to feel you 've made a permanent communication — then you have to begin the work of looking at the market , seeing what is published and by whom . |
| 2 | She 's cut out for better things than wasting her time on some blue-eyed , grease-stained English Romeo . ’ |
| 3 | Tony did no more than repeat his run of the morning . |
| 4 | Certainly if farmers wish to have a suitably skilled and motivated labour force by the late 1980s they will have to do more to recognize the farm worker 's quite legitimate aspirations and to help rather than hinder his search for ‘ a place in the sun ’ . |
| 5 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 6 | Medical research company Medirace , which is trying to develop a drug to treat cancer and Aids , is more than tripling its size through an £87million takeover . |
| 7 | Dr Scott , from long experience , did no more than wrinkle his nose at the odour of decay , and spent twenty minutes there , mostly occupied with a careful consideration of the head . |
| 8 | Wise Speke analyst John Dean , says : ‘ Whessoe and Varec have been known to one another for some considerable time although given their emphasis on different geographical markets they have rarely found themselves in direct competition . ’ |
| 9 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 10 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 11 | He also had to keep secrets , for he knew the real shape of things : " I am surprised the ladies have not found out a way to employ women stay-makers rather than trust our sex with what should be kept as inviolably as Free-Masonry . " |
| 12 | Electoral studies of the period show that an increasing number of people were making their support for one or other of the main parties conditional upon the calculation of ‘ rational self-interest ’ or ‘ governmental competence ’ , rather than basing their voting upon a ‘ class reflex ’ . |
| 13 | The re-furbished flats were more than contributing their share of reducing the UK target of 20% reduction in CO 2 emissions — 15 years ahead of schedule ! |
| 14 | We did little planning other than booking our accommodation in a chain of well positioned youth hostels , but the holiday was memorable . |
| 15 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 16 | It is much better to evaluate information needs and establish information flows in advance of the decision-making process than to discover their omission at a later stage . |
| 17 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 18 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 19 | She felt a moment of sorrow for the Jan Mayen 's crew : Dutchmen who had brought their little ship to Portsmouth when Holland was overrun by the Nazi armies , choosing to leave their country and fight on with the British Navy rather than give their ship into enemy hands . |
| 20 | Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her . |
| 21 | The authors report the number of occurrences of the surface form done , rather than presenting their information in terms of percentages which give a proportion of possible occurrences . |
| 22 | In fact , however , he adapts the few terms he does borrow to fit his case , rather than forcing his view of narrative to comply strictly with linguistic principles . |
| 23 | BELVILLE : I had rather so than perfecting my Pamela in it . |
| 24 | If you prefer to select your own meals , rather than follow our suggestion for the day , you will find selections of breakfasts , salads and snacks to choose from , with precise calorie values for each , on pages 99–100 , and main meal recipes at the end of Stage I and each week of Stage II . |
| 25 | Rather than use his apartment as an extension of the office , Milton did things the other way round . |
| 26 | PAMELA : I can , sir , and I will , rather than divide my interest in you knowingly with any lady upon earth . |
| 27 | The salt itself , even at high dose ( 5% ) in my experience , has little effect on the flukes other than to weaken their hold on the fish . |
| 28 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 29 | In the general election the Labour Party made sweeping gains , more than doubling its share of the seats in the Dáil at the expense of Fianna Fáil , which won its lowest number of votes since the 1920s , and Fine Gael , which suffered its worst result since 1948 . |
| 30 | In Edwin Hill & Partners v. First National Finance Corporation a finance company which had a legal charge over B 's property to secure a loan came to an arrangement with B whereby they would develop the property themselves rather than exercise their power of sale under the charge . |