Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the Rainfords had one of those marriages where each did his and her own thing ? |
| 2 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 3 | Where this occurs there is no implication of a reduction on the range or standard of services offered . |
| 4 | Where this occurs it is likely that there will be a lack of consensus among the implementers , too . |
| 5 | Where this arises it is not possible to transfer to another holiday or to cancel without incurring normal cancellation charges ( see page 88 ) . |
| 6 | There are questions of intention , where this concerns what thoughts produce the action , and what features of the action are , relative to that thought , accidental . |
| 7 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 8 | In so doing , it may also win new respect in other areas of physics , where many see it as a fascinating but over-costly irrelevance . |
| 9 | These derelict landscapes can take the punishment , they are the places that youth can work off its frustrations without causing too much damage , and where many experience their first taste of love . |
| 10 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 11 | Yeah they 're all nice nice girls you know this is like the other week we was here playing the other team and one of the other team was swearing you know , and particularly you know the girls in , might have not they have the they used to play for Black Bear and you know the that lady that 's up there , she still swears and we stopped her from here used to f this , f that and f the other , we did , we stopped her said if you ca n't find a better word than that to use I should n't bother , you know As you know Shirl do n't like that . |
| 12 | Munalula will need more than that to realize her ambition of extending the scheme to rural areas . |
| 13 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 14 | Well , it would take a little more than that to faze someone as familiar with the human anatomy as Charity . |
| 15 | ‘ Take more than that to affect our fellows . ’ |
| 16 | This sceptic is a hard-nosed person who claims that most people allow themselves to be persuaded by what is really rather weak evidence , but that he needs more than that to convince him . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's a very touching story , but it 'll take a little more than that to convince me that you were n't heading for the exit . ’ |
| 18 | It was strange because there were only two of them , and normally it takes a lot more than that to make me feel outnumbered . |
| 19 | Any AME who has to re-equip will have to do more than that to make it worthwhile . |
| 20 | Thus lie has no right to re-sell the goods other than that allowed him by later subsections of section 48 . |
| 21 | you do n't want much more than that do you ? |
| 22 | Right , ca n't get any easier than that do you want it again ? |
| 23 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 24 | Less time than that to break it down . |
| 25 | ‘ I hope you have something more tremendous than that to tell us . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And now you have given his thoughts a different direction anyway , so that solves everything . ’ |
| 27 | I lead a very chaotic life and spend a lot of my time running around like a maniac so that keeps me fairly fit . |
| 28 | J.B. You know it 's positive discrimination in that and boys will not be allowed in so they can have , you know , an enjoyable night , being girls but not with boys there to say , ‘ oh , yea , you 've got nice legs ’ and all this , so that salves my conscience a bit and I was n't very worried about it , but I wo n't have beauty demonstrations and things in the club 'cause I 'm not going to reinforce the image that boys already have of the girls . |
| 29 | ‘ I happen to be a major shareholder in the station now , so that makes me your boss if you want it spelling out to you . |
| 30 | James was divorced , so that makes us both adulterers . ’ |