Example sentences of "[subord] [vb -s] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain is in between with more constraints upon the media than happens in the USA , but more press reponing than in many Scandinavian countries . |
| 2 | Clearly , it shows a very much more complex structure than exists at the moment ( see Figure 3.1a ) . |
| 3 | The position of the mother would be one of even greater dependence than exists at the moment . |
| 4 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 5 | We melted away again into the mists and learned to make our way back with unerring accuracy to places that were little more than pinpoints on the map . |
| 6 | This is partly because as a harder metal it makes a more secure setting for valuable stones and partly that being a white metal it reflects rather than competes with the brilliance and lustre of diamonds . |
| 7 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 8 | But now that the resort is quieter and cleaner , it more than compensates for the lack of clothes bargains . |
| 9 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 10 | Because goes for the key |
| 11 | Despite all these measures taken by the British , as sitreps on the days after 15 May record , many Croats , both military and civilians , did manage to penetrate the British lines . |
| 12 | By reinterpreting these number pairs as points in the plane and connecting them with lines we are drawing a transformation of the original square . |
| 13 | At the earlier hearing Lord McCluskey had asked for a report from a sex-problems clinic after inquiring about pornographic material — 65 magazines and 45 videos — listed as exhibits in the case . |
| 14 | The poses come as pauses at the end of each sequence , the dancer then changing position before beginning a new phrase , as if the guitarist were resting his fingers fur a moment . |
| 15 | All of these , to repeat , although there is some uncertainty and inconsistency , are presented as answers to the question of the meaning or semantics of certain " if " statements , certainly including dependent nomic conditionals . |
| 16 | There was very definitely evidence of a zone in transition and these were marked as limits on the map , by observation of where the CBD finished and where there was a mixture of houses , shops and offices before the area became wholly residential . |
| 17 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 18 | At present the country 's exports of these metals are small but the volume could be stepped up as uses for the materials grow . |
| 19 | Such catastrophic events , he believes , are more likely to be due to the receipt of a considerable volume of rainfall in a short space of time on to soils which are already saturated , as occurs during the monsoon season . |
| 20 | Newborn screening for genetic and other disorders is usually confined to diseases for which there is treatment — either a change of diet ( as in phenylketonuria and galactosaemia ) or replacement therapy ( as in hypothyroidism ) — or in which there is a chance of affecting morbidity or mortality early in life , as occurs in the haemoglobinopathies ( particularly sickle cell disease ) . |
| 21 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 22 | The National Feder-ation of Professional Workers had already objected to the proposed constitutional reforms of the BUF and what they saw as plans for the suppression of Parliament , the imprisonment of opponents , and the establishment of a private army . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's a terrible self-consciousness at being a new student in a hall of residence , hearing the clattering dinner plates , going into the dining room and not knowing anybody , then suddenly realising ( as happens to the heroine , Laura , in the novel ) that one 's not wearing a gown and everyone else is . |
| 24 | And when the used rods of uranium are put through a chemical process designed to separate unpleasant waste from still usable fuel , as happens at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria , a whole range of radioactive pollutants is generated . |
| 25 | In some schools you will be asked to participate with other students in basic class work over a weekend ( as happens at the Bristol Old Vic drama school ) and in some you may find yourself being judged partly by senior students of the school who will be sitting with the faculty panel ( which is something that happens at Drama Centre ) . |
| 26 | Insect wings do originate as flaps on the back and they do , initially , have blood flowing in their veins , so such a theory seems very plausible . |
| 27 | Such interviews have been conducted by Cawkell , as checks on the validity of the coupling data which he has derived by inspection of the ‘ citing journal package ’ . |
| 28 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 29 | All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . |
| 30 | Windows reflect various colours as smudges in the dusk . |