Example sentences of "[subord] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be asking rather more of the social security system than exists under the present arrangements , for this payment would be made , not on the grounds of ‘ need ’ as with existing Supplementary Benefits ( SB ) , nor on grounds of compensation , as with ICA , nor on the grounds of purchased ‘ rights ’ as in the case of insurance benefits , but on grounds of work carried out . |
| 2 | Despite the shortcomings , Tony Stuart 's book more than succeeds as an up-to-date review of the distribution and significance of British Pleistocene vertebrates . |
| 3 | Notice that there will not be quite so many trajectories as points on the top face of B since trajectories will , in general , intersect this plane in a large ( possibly infinite ) number of points . |
| 4 | In this respect they considered elephants , brought to Rome as exhibits from the Punic Wars against Hannibal , superior to works of art and fine craftsmanship . |
| 5 | In all these solutions , the singularity that occurs when corresponds to a Cauchy horizon . |
| 6 | The rules do permit the RTC to give away worthless properties to housing groups to use as shelters for the homeless . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , less than a mile away , Therapy ? are happily getting as drunk as newts in a British style pub bar celebrating yours truly 's latest bastard birthday . |
| 8 | Laing points out that this approach generates a lot of ideas , many of which will be worthless , as happens in a brainstorming session . |
| 9 | In most years the updating of the Long-Term Costing , though always difficult , is a relatively gentlemanly struggle between sensible men , trying to squeeze a pint of requirements into a half-pint financial pot , as happens in the budgetary processes of any large organization or commercial conglomerate . |
| 10 | When investigators questioned the public about privacy on behalf of the Younger Committee , 33 per cent of those asked objected to the publication of names and addresses as happens in the Electoral Roll . |
| 11 | Hyperamylasaemia and hyperlipasaemia were defined as increases above the upper limits of normal , which were 52 IU/l and 200 IU/l respectively , before January 11 , 1989 , and 10 IU/l and 208 IU/l , respectively , after January 11 , 1989 . |
| 12 | Only by using as much knowledge and experience as resides in the whole school can both the broad issues of school management and the minutiae of its efficient operation be appropriately financed . |
| 13 | NEC Corp warns that it expects to plunge to a consolidated loss of $364m for the fiscal year to the end of this month , as slumps in the domestic chip and computer markets turn out even worse than feared . |
| 14 | The as regards to the other evidence , you have my two-page summary , er and therefore there is no risk of erm any erm leng length of time being taken the rest of . |
| 15 | Ground-state vibration frequencies are obtained as shifts from the exciting frequency or from the vibrational origin of the electronic band . |
| 16 | Thinking of the faith as though it were a philosophical position , and of those who had come to preach to them as if they were travelling intellectuals , led the Corinthians to imagine themselves as judges between the various emphases they heard . |
| 17 | That is outrageous , as judges at the Old Bailey have made clear , but judges have no power over the running of the Prison Service . |
| 18 | As appears from the following pages many people worked hard to make that success , and some are mentioned in the report itself — see also the Acknowledgements . |
| 19 | Harman LJ agreed that no specification existed but in applying the object and intent test he said : … one must regard the contract as a whole , and this is a contract where a sales representative in South Lincolnshire serving a firm which , as appears from the very clause in question … is a corn and agricultural merchant and animal feeding stuffs manufacturer . |
| 20 | In Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon the creditors had acted responsibly in that they had taken steps to ensure that the elderly parents received independent legal advice and , as appears from the closing sentence of the extract of Oliver L.J . 's judgment just cited , they were entitled when they received in return documents apparently executed in the presence of such a solicitor to accept those documents and act upon them . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , in the fourth century the Franks were also in close contact with the Romans , as allies and as recruits for the imperial forces . |
| 22 | Long famous as recruits to the British Gurkha regiments , the Gurungs are facing the challenges of increasing population , soil erosion , rapid westernization and other pressures . |
| 23 | The existence of ( b ) and ( c ) he thought proved by the presence of some biblical texts where the literal sense seemed absurd or contradictory ; such texts must have been placed there as signposts to a spiritual allegorical exegesis . |
| 24 | A number of principles , notably that of collective responsibility , have been set out as signposts for the continuing evaluation of services for the under-fives . |
| 25 | Raw data such as plant locations , weather data and population distribution can be displayed as overlays on a basic land-use map . |
| 26 | Roads , railways , lakes , rivers , major settlements , chemical storage facilities and political boundaries can be displayed and used as overlays for the various modules that examine the impacts of chemical spills into the atmosphere and river systems . |
| 27 | The appeal of liturgical monastic religion can also be seen from the fact that when Ethelwold in the 960s expelled the married clergy from the church of Winchester in favour of celibate monks , three of the former clergy , Eadsige , Wulfige , and Wilstan , returned as celibates to the new communal life . |
| 28 | If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine . |
| 29 | As cogs in the Soviet military machine , the three countries ' armies used to sit mainly near their western borders . |
| 30 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |