Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 2 | Along with age , retirement is another word that does n't belong in this Irishman 's vocabulary ; he runs a bar , Leo 's Bar , in Meenaleck on the County Donegal coast , where with very little persuasion he will put on musical performances for customers . |
| 3 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) . |
| 4 | The worst of the unrest occurred in Uttar Pradesh , Bihar , West Bengal and Punjab where at least 100 people died in election-related violence . |
| 5 | With military-style precision , one gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France where at least four others were waiting . |
| 6 | The Army and police suppressed unrest in the refugee camps , where at least four Palestinians were killed . |
| 7 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 8 | In the first round Havel received 79 votes in the 150-member Chamber of the People ( 11 votes short of the 90 required ) and in the 150-member Chamber of Nations ( where at least 45 votes were required from each of the Czech and Slovak groups in the Chamber , which voted separately ) he won 47 votes in the Czech and 22 in the Slovak part . |
| 9 | In the first round Havel received 79 votes in the 150-member Chamber of the People ( 11 votes short of the 90 required ) and in the 150-member Chamber of Nations ( where at least 45 votes were required from each of the Czech and Slovak groups in the Chamber , which voted separately ) he won 47 votes in the Czech and 22 in the Slovak part . |
| 10 | Police were reported on Dec. 15 to have adopted a shoot-to-kill policy following pre-election violence in Rift Valley Province , where at least 16 people were said to have died . |
| 11 | All three Welsh areas had a high number of family units where at least one member had attended formal training , whilst in Orkney and Wester Ross there was one and none respectively . |
| 12 | The following are examples from schools where at least one microcomputer is now permanently based in the school library . |
| 13 | The ideal is to find a spot where at least one palm tree leans over the beach at a steep angle ( more about this in a later article ) . |
| 14 | Where at least six forms of entry ( i.e. 180 pupils a year ) could be secured , and where the right buildings were available , this solution was the ‘ simplest and best ’ . |
| 15 | Helston was measurably poorer , and , except for just one £40 man , had no inhabitant worth more than 20 marks ( £13. 6s. 8d . ) . |
| 16 | The Russians themselves , along with other people from west of the Urals , settled most densely in a zone approximately 400 to 700 kilometres widen following the main land route across southern Siberia , with particularly large wedges near the Urals and between Omsk and Krasnoyarsk , where by the late nineteenth century practically no native people remained except for widely scattered villages of Tatars . |
| 17 | ( de Lauretis 1984 , p. 163 ) The impact of this shift on film-making has been that except for overtly feminist films , cinematic practices in the independent sector no longer necessarily can be said to construct a male gaze . |
| 18 | On a normal tow , except for very low performance machines , the climbing angle of the towplane and glider is much steeper than the glider 's gliding angle when flying downwind . |
| 19 | All employers , except for very small businesses , will be obliged to invest a minimum amount on training their workforce or make a contribution to the local or national training effort . |
| 20 | The liquidity ratio , however , has now been reduced , since bonds ( except for very short-dated ones ) are regarded as illiquid . |
| 21 | Except for very basic slapstick , humour travels uncertainly . |
| 22 | Well , there were few whites left except for very old people who could n't have moved if they had wanted to . |
| 23 | The top octave is not , however , much used as a general rule except for very special solo effects where a relentless and rather brutal characterization is being aimed at . |
| 24 | Within this green zone , which included old towns like Watford and Reigate and new communities such as Hornchurch and Upminster in the east and Banstead and Orpington in the south , there would be no further urban expansion except for very special cases . |
| 25 | By and large the British Isles , Germany and Scandinavia provided the international migrants , except for specially footloose minorities such as the Galicians and Basques , ubiquitous in the Hispanic world . |
| 26 | b Completion rates — While there is some evidence that completion rates for non-traditional students are overall somewhat lower than for traditionally qualified students , there is also evidence that completion rates for these students vary considerably depending on their qualifications and previous experience . |
| 27 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 28 | Advice and protection were more commonly given for diseases such as tetanus and malaria than for sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhoea and syphilis ( table ) . |
| 29 | In both cases , although for quite different reasons , there 's not enough oxygen being carried round body . |
| 30 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |