Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know enough about men and boats to behave immaculately with them and stood where placed until the serious show business of the lock manoeuvres were completed and we were full straight ahead in the ruffled unconstrained waters of Loch Ness heading for Inverness . |
| 2 | The rise in price is given by and is therefore greater ( smaller ) than where according as the corporate sector is more labour ( capital ) intensive . |
| 3 | Is it not also a fact that waiting lists for houses to rent are increasing and have more than trebled since the Conservatives took office ? |
| 4 | Rather than wait until a discourse is finished , and then analyse it as a whole , from outside and with the benefit of hindsight , the ethnomethodologists try to understand how it unfolds in time . |
| 5 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 6 | The excitement beckons — and I 'll go no further at this stage than to wonder whether the Championship record of exactly 100 years ago might be repeated in 1992 , when England beat Ireland , Wales and Scotland ( just ! ) , |
| 7 | Coppicing and laying rather than flailing provided a better stock-proof boundary which would also benefit wildlife . |
| 8 | Over the past 15 years perinatal mortality rates have more than halved while the social and political pressure to measure and interpret them has increased . |
| 9 | But Mr Bottomley , who made road safety a dominant feature of his work as a Minister and still campaigns on it , said deaths would be more than halved if every cyclist wore a helmet . |
| 10 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 11 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 12 | The areas beyond these terminal reaves contain burial and religious monuments which in some cases must be earlier ; so perhaps some respect of older features is implied , an aspect which can be seen elsewhere where barrows and barrow cemeteries seem to have been avoided rather than ignored when the later fields were laid out . |
| 13 | Rather than ask whether a NATO tank remains superior to a Soviet tank , the relevant question is whether it remains superior to four Soviet tanks . |
| 14 | Further , Sched 4 , Pt I , Abatement 2(i) , which will reduce the fee payable to one-fifth ( subject to a minimum of £40 ) , is available if claimed provided the transfer is made pursuant to an order of the court and is of the matrimonial home . |
| 15 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 16 | The doctor looked at Patrick seriously , as if wondering whether a security director could grasp a metaphysical truth . |
| 17 | His horse , Contralto , was dazedly looking around himself , as if wondering whether the grass covering his fetlocks was real or illusory . |
| 18 | Before the 1989 Act , some councils designated the party groups as official committees of the council , thus allowing officers to attend to offer advice while withdrawing before the group proceeded to a political decision . |
| 19 | He also denies that on the night of the same day while posing as a taxi driver he attempted to rape a girl aged 18 and later raped a 22-year-old woman . |
| 20 | He could do nothing but wait while the procedure which he had initiated for excommunicating the king if he refused to restore his rights and revenues crawled towards its conclusion . |
| 21 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 22 | Needless to say , on recordings which have a substantial musical output below 50Hz — the organ perhaps the prime example — the effect is felt as well as heard since the 103/4 can move a great deal of air . |
| 23 | It would help a lot when cornering if the power steering was lighter . |
| 24 | Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to . |
| 25 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher was not considered in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) , though it has been argued elsewhere in this book that there is no reason for refusing to apply the principles of foreseeability as developed since The Wagon Mound . |
| 26 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 27 | The selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate shall not be regarded as completed until the name of the member selected has been placed before a meeting of the National Executive Committee , and his or her selection has been duly endorsed . |
| 28 | Factual content of the whole report is to be treated as disclosed since the Purchaser knows its content at completion . |
| 29 | It is clear that the complex pattern of symptoms could not be a consequence of just one or two loci of damage within the normal reading system , and Morton and Patterson ( 1980 ) have offered an interpretation in which the disorder is explained as occurring when a number of different loci in the normal reading system are all damaged . |
| 30 | Duress invalidating consent to a contract is regarded as occurring where a party has been imprisoned or threatened with , for example , imprisonment , or violence , or harm to reputation , or criminal prosecution of a spouse . |