Example sentences of "[subord] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 A friendly system is one where as you talk you are being understood , and you can get some sort of response .
2 We talk later in this chapter about the use of other people 's words , making the point that one problem with other people 's words is that they usually make more sense where they come from than where you put them in your essay .
3 Second , the subject you study is far more important than where you study it .
4 He rarely wondered about others ' lives except where they touched his ; his mind was perpetually occupied with his own concerns .
5 Luke tells you what to do all the time , but quietly , and he never loses his temper , except if he thinks you 're not toying .
6 Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’
7 There will be 7–8 great trips , costing around £12–£14 per trip , although if you book them all , you will receive a reduction on the total trip cost , free entry to the Set disco as well as Tiff 's 2 , and a discount voucher booklet saving you £££ 's while in resort .
8 Presses are easily obtained from a great many shops and are not very expensive , although if you wish you can make your own , or ask a handy friend to help out if you are not very practical .
9 Because that 's the thing like , although if she did something a bit more traditional , it 'd probably please the likes of us but when you think , the kids that are doing it , if she says oh we 're doing something out of Starlight Express it 'll be aah !
10 I think ( actor 's voice ) people who are not in this great business of ours think the idea of electronic messages flying around is really odd and they may get freaked if some of what is said is a bit inflammatory- maybe more so than if they saw it printed .
11 They s they seriously ca n't do much more than if they catch you they suspend you there 's not a lot more that they can do .
12 And when anyone treats my daughter like that I find it very hard to forgive , I know it hurts my kids , I 'm much more up in arms than if they hurt me .
13 Some regional breweries such as Palatine have found good niches for their products , but many others are content to sell lagers brewed by national companies such as Whitbread , thus accepting lower margins than if they brewed their own .
14 If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here .
15 They would even dry quicker than if you put them over the clothes horse cos that 's what those slats are for .
16 Well you 're in a stronger position than if you take somebody on and find out six months later that they ca n't do it , where you gon na put them ?
17 If we can start into the budget then , I think members will be fully aware of the wider context that the County Council finds itself in , and we 're not proposing to rehearse that at any great length for you other than if you wish us to er , run through that again .
18 If ( and hopefully when ) you do finally quit , it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost .
19 ( Try thinking about your finger movements when you play a well-known tune on a keyboard — you make more mistakes than if you let your fingers do the thinking . )
20 You will find it far less expensive than if you let your account go ‘ in the red ’ without telling us .
21 So how can you view the fact that somebody else is er , typing , or doing a transcript of er , what we 're actually saying on this tape , we should explain what grotting is , it 's most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary , what grotting actually means .
22 When you live alone , money assumes a greater importance than if you share your life with someone .
23 You will have realized , for example , that if you crunch your car into your neighbour 's gatepost at 20 miles an hour you will do much more damage than if you nudge it at 10 .
24 Some pieces of work , on the other hand , require a lot of reading and study time during composition ; and for these you are likely to produce better work if you choose questions that genuinely interest you , or connect with problems you are in any case interested in outside your literary work , rather than if you feel your work is being done out of obligation or under duress .
25 Often it is very useful to study your complete set of jobs and arrange the elements of that set in order , so that they can be done better , or more easily than if you did your work in a different order each day .
26 The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well .
27 I made a guesswork assessment that it would be able to provide a motor car that would cost the disabled person at least 25 per cent less than if he made his own arrangements .
28 And in the remaining 14 , levels were in all cases lower if the mother had seven years or more of schooling than if she had none , though the death rates were higher if the women had 1–3 or 4–6 years of formal education than if she had none .
29 And in the remaining 14 , levels were in all cases lower if the mother had seven years or more of schooling than if she had none , though the death rates were higher if the women had 1–3 or 4–6 years of formal education than if she had none .
30 On the other hand , infant mortality may in fact be higher in those countries when the mother has 1–3 or 4–6 years of schooling than if she has none .
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