Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 2 | As policies are now printed as required , the policy issued to the policyholder also contains the schedule and where appropriate the certificate of motor insurance . |
| 3 | to represent where appropriate the field in any external discussion with the CNAA , or other bodies ; |
| 4 | They suit the range to very direct methods of sketching and drawing , where varying the contact between the pastel and the paper can provide all the necessary elements of technique . |
| 5 | Significant compression has only developed comparatively recently ( the Alpine Fault was transtensile until the Pliocene ) but has generated rapid uplift with the highest peaks in the Southern Alps now exceeding an altitude of 3000 m . |
| 6 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 7 | Into the largely unexplored Hose Range , and an area called the Bukit Tengah , where lived a number of rare and uncollected species , including the ratbird , happy until this juncture in their uncollected state . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , if cost effectiveness is seen as a relevant criterion , the potential savings in accident costs alone promise to more than recoup the outlay on the environmental traffic management schemes . |
| 9 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 10 | With this in mind , a less visually seductive format might well have allowed a more readily comprehensible layout ; serious readers do not object to all illustrations being bound together rather than fragmenting the text in this way . |
| 11 | But rather than helping the development of the country , these petrodollars would spread chaos and disappointment among millions of people , while offering fabulous opportunities of corruption to the court , the Shah 's family and may foreign companies and merchants . |
| 12 | At the other end of the spectrum , many Northern Hemisphere administrators and coaches feel uneasy about law changes designed to increase spectator appeal rather than modify the game in response to arguments emanating from the game 's grass roots . |
| 13 | Seen from without , the stately building that fronts the open square is sufficiently imposing ; viewed from within , the place more than fulfils the promise of its exterior . |
| 14 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 15 | Is Labour still reflecting the ideals of the past rather than organizing a response to the problems of the future ? |
| 16 | So far , research into psychoneuroimmunology has done no more than scratch the surface of this potentially important topic . |
| 17 | Even the prescription of a joint approach to issues of sexism and racism ( Brah and Deem , 1986 ) does little more than scratch the surface of a very much deeper problem . |
| 18 | My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man . |
| 19 | I have as much scepticism as the next person about new techniques for analysing so-called discourse communities which seem to do little else than parse the text of student e-mail with an home-grown SNOBOL program . |
| 20 | The number of levels is arbitrary , but it certainly is apparent that there is a very light , superficial , cliche level of communication that serves little more than to acknowledge the presence of another person . |
| 21 | He sensed more than heard the scuffle of trainer shoes on concrete behind him and threw a casual glance over his shoulder . |
| 22 | I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you . |
| 23 | And I 'd rather you eat it than make a mess of it eh ? |
| 24 | Naïve , that 's what he was always calling me — that or juvenile , and you ca n't get more juvenile or naïve than allowing a man like Luke Denner to seduce you and then half hoping , almost believing in the fantasy that somehow you might actually mean something to him ! ’ |
| 25 | If an employer is faced with the situation where an employee has , in his own time and using his own equipment , developed a useful computer program , then the employer should immediately try to reach agreement as regards questions of ownership and use of the programs with the employee concerned , rather than allowing the program to be used without such agreement . |
| 26 | In such a distinctly chic composition this hybrid between trelliswork and pergola helps contain the garden at ground level rather than allowing the view to be dominated by the high surrounding urban walls . |
| 27 | sharpening perceptual skills so that categorization follows rather than precedes the search for clues . |
| 28 | Amongst those who disagreed it was frequently asserted that the provision of a sealed form 53 prior to completion might facilitate rather than hinder the commission of a fraud . |
| 29 | Its purpose Augean — no less than to perform an act of reparation for the sins of students everywhere . |
| 30 | The construction task will not end with this book , which does little more than lay the foundation for an approach that will celebrate geography as focusing on the ‘ question of place ’ within contemporary society . |