Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 2 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 3 | He chose the city of Selma , Alabama , to dramatize the issue — a city where the blacks outnumbered whites , but where only 3% of blacks were registered voters against 97% of the white inhabitants . |
| 4 | Those three areas are : education , welfare and health , where over 18% of women in Northern Ireland are working ; this is where we find the women in the RVH ; in clerical and related jobs — a quarter of women in Northern Ireland are in that area ; and another 23% are in catering , cleaning and hairdressing . |
| 5 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 6 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 7 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 8 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
| 9 | It was more than just fear of Gesner 's contempt . |
| 10 | You now offer a lot more than just negotiations on pay . |
| 11 | But the former lead singer for the soul group The Three Degrees ( remember ‘ When Will I See You Again' ? ) stood firm in her conviction that the development of black American cookery from plantation scraps to mainstream classics merits more than just lists of ingredients . |
| 12 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 13 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 14 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 15 | Mr Lyons , leader of the MSF technical union , believes — albeit slightly tongue in cheek — that the more exotic menu is fully justified . |
| 16 | However , informal repetition experiments suggest that no more than about 30% of searches contain a close match with any subject heading more than one word long . |
| 17 | Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne . |
| 18 | Ann Foster , the council 's food policy adviser , said : ‘ There should be the equivalent of a Warnock Committee to look at aspects of genetic manipulation other than simply matters of safety . ’ |
| 19 | Furthermore , district health authorities were obliged to become traders rather than simply suppliers of hospital services . |
| 20 | He had earlier explained that the PSL-S would be a national , centrist party based on Christian values , rather than exclusively peasant in orientation ; and that it would seek to combine the historical legacy of the peasant movement with the ethos of Solidarity . |
| 21 | Vets who cut out 10ft of his gut to cure colic on November 25 gave him a less than even chance of survival . |
| 22 | To do this it needs a slightly longer ‘ memory ’ than either Tit for Tat or Naive Prober . |
| 23 | Comparative studies in volunteers have shown that activated charcoal is better than either syrup of ipecacuanha or gastric lavage in reducing drug absorption . |
| 24 | Most of us do , of course , sell lines other than books , even if only cards for Book Tokens . |
| 25 | If only manner of articulation and voicing are known , but not place of articulation , then all those words or parts of words corresponding to this mid-class description can be accessed . |
| 26 | You get this effect when you gaze through a file of London trees in winter , and the naked branches criss and cross until only motes of light remain , in peeping triangles . |
| 27 | Arabs , he added , ‘ react against you if you try to drive them … but you can lead them without force anywhere , if nominally arm in arm ’ . |
| 28 | Opposition leaders increased pressure in recent weeks for an election and demanded that the government hold up until then ratification of NAFTA . |
| 29 | They looked at such things as whether if then relationships between clauses were present or absent , and also changed the order of several sentences . |
| 30 | Cleveland has some 20,000 empty school places , and spends some £80 per pupil on its central administration , while only £40 per pupil is spent across the border in North Yorkshire . |