Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This can affect almost every employee in virtually every type of business — not simply in factories and warehouses but in offices , shops and any working environment where handling a load presents a risk . |
| 2 | In a Soviet Union where getting a film developed is not a simple matter Aleksandras Macijauskas has still managed to document the people , and lifestyle , of his native Lithuania . |
| 3 | In a Soviet Union where getting a film developed is not a simple matter , photography can not be the action of a consumer — of holiday , sports event or sight-seeing tour — but has to be , at the very least , a technical hobby ; at the best , an art form |
| 4 | There is no subject where attending a polytechnic increases the statistical likelihood of being unemployed by more than three or four times . |
| 5 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 6 | I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever . |
| 7 | In most cases it is better to improve your credit control than to give a discount to entice payment . |
| 8 | Even when his hands pat their way up to my crotch it is less embarrassing than having a tailor measure my inside leg . |
| 9 | His smile , as I recounted my terrifying encounter — I am an arachnophobe — implied that there were worse things in life than having a spider wandering over one 's hair . |
| 10 | The challenge in our modern world is to use medical techniques that will preserve the life of the baby and the health of the mother , yet still allow women to respond to the natural forces of childbirth , so that they may really feel they have given birth , rather than having a baby taken out of them . |
| 11 | These also made for easier reference with page turning being easier than unwinding a scroll to find your place . |
| 12 | A further reason why trustees of non-UK-resident trusts will prefer to have a disposal of shares rather than receive a distribution derives from s79(1) of and Sch 6 to the 1993 Finance Act , which brings the rate of income tax payable by certain non-UK-resident trustees in line with the rate applicable to UK-resident trustees , namely 35% of the grossed-up amount of the distribution received . |
| 13 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 14 | It no more lies within the field of morals than does a cross-word puzzle . |
| 15 | A restaurant seating 100 obviously presents a greater risk of food poisoning than does a shop selling only wrapped goods and needs to dedicate commensurate resources to staff training . |
| 16 | By spreading the impactor 's mass over a wide area , fragmentation increases the amount of atmosphere intercepted and so enhances ablation and aerobraking ; hence a fragmenting object stops more abruptly , surrendering its kinetic energy more explosively , than does a non-fragmenting object . |
| 17 | Involuntarily she found herself going out on to the balcony for air , rather than clearing a space to sit . |
| 18 | Better to have it from someone you know and respect , rather than have a customer complain . |
| 19 | As he had no children , how could anyone say what kind of a father he would make until given a chance to prove it himself ? |
| 20 | Luke was still staring at her as if expecting a rabbit to emerge from her sleeve at any moment . |
| 21 | Its smooth ivory planes suggested beauty without exactly expressing it , as if awaiting a stimulus to burst into life . |
| 22 | The entire cast held their breath , as if watching a tightrope-walker stumble , and all let out a sigh of relief when he managed to right himself and make it through to the end of the speech . |
| 23 | Of course , it is much better to have a written contract , because proving a contract relying on the spoken word can be notoriously difficult . |
| 24 | Microprocessor-controlled rows of lamps can help learners with number work ( for example , in binary ) , while using a computer to collect temperature data , for instance , and present it ready for a graph is also of value . |
| 25 | your own , or your wifes or husbands , employer while working for that employer , but not while using a vehicle provided by the employer . |
| 26 | your own , or your wifes or husbands , employer while working for that employer , but not while using a vehicle provided by the employer . |
| 27 | your own , or your wifes or husbands , employer while working for that employer , but not while using a vehicle provided by the employer . |
| 28 | your own , or your wifes or husbands , employer while working for that employer , but not while using a vehicle provided by the employer . |
| 29 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
| 30 | Berri announced his decision while addressing a rally to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the disappearance in Libya of Amal 's founder , Imam Moussa Sadr . |