Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [conj] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Peter said he thought Lydia White ( Linguistics/McGill , Montreal ) had still not placed her book on universal grammar with a publisher although Tim Blakey has since reported that when he contacted her when he was there last week , she refused to see ‘ yet another publisher ’ .
2 Apart from having limited time to try and spread the gospel about the tournament in its magnificent venue , if , as should have happened , Jimmy Connors had played , if John McEnroe had survived his first round , if Pat Cash had looked better prepared and if , as certainly should have been the case , Jeremy Bates had taken the opportunity he had to upset Wimbledon quarter finalist , Thierry Champion , the whole picture may have looked so different .
3 Thank you the only is that you will have seen organised generally supported that although I think we could support it a lot better than we have .
4 The right hon. Gentleman sounds from what he has just said as though he is a separatist .
5 Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework .
6 I agree with my hon. Friend that it is vital at this time , when there is the greatest risk of proliferation that the world has ever known and when the world 's greatest nuclear power is in a state of disintegration , that we ensure that while we take every positive and constructive step to try to deal with that very grave situation , we recognise the need to maintain our essential safeguard , our own nuclear deterrent .
7 But this has also ensured that when these structures become racialized , elders and women become mobilized around the defence of public proprieties while male youth become locked in struggles for territorial dominance .
8 Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned .
9 He has also to appreciate that as supervising officer his position within the building contract is unique in that he often has responsibilities to both his client and the contractor .
10 La Fontaine ( 1988 , p.3 ) has also shown that while the British surveys she reviewed all used sample designs of the whole population ‘ they suffered from serious limitations [ and ] … there is evidence that the methods of obtaining information influence the reporting rate ’ .
11 Captain Farquharson has now said that provided planning permission was given and the track area restored , then the film crew could go ahead .
12 It is becoming increasingly appreciated that while food allergies may be relatively rare , food intolerance may be much more common , and usually produces milder symptoms .
13 He has previously suggested that if he lost the reselection vote he would resign , thus provoking a byelection .
14 The use of MRI for staging pelvic cancers has recently increased and as technology advances with the development of surface coils and endoscopic coils , pelvic imaging is likely to become a prominent application .
15 Spend half an hour in a feeding centre and you walk away feeling as though a nightmare has flashed before you .
16 He came home to sleep and as soon as he woke after she 'd left for the Clinic , he went out .
17 She 'd once worried that when she saw him again the old feelings might come back , but she felt nothing .
18 He 'd also known that when the chips were down she would n't back away .
19 The 1981 Transport Act now states that once the police have reasonable cause to believe that a driver has been drinking , they can follow him home and breath test him there if they wish .
20 Labour MPs , activists and union bosses would do well to remember that as they consider electing her deputy to a man who 's already had one heart attack . ’
21 Jim Hind 's advice on planning calving dates raised points I 'd never considered and although obviously aimed at cattle , has made me rethink my goat mating .
22 On the one hand it can be used simply to say that whilst theory is essential and desirable it nevertheless depends for its validity on observation ( of an empirical kind ) .
23 So Nuer readily acknowledge that when they pray and give thanks to kwoth with appropriate offerings they restore to him what is already his .
24 The ecumenical movement had become better established and although it would be an exaggeration to say that the major Protestant denominations were heavily committed to a ‘ Romeward trend ’ , it was clearly the case that many church leaders were seeking better relations with the Roman Church .
25 The Rex/Olympia doubling soon finished but before they could relax to a comparatively simple regime of five shows a day , they were told to double at the Paramount .
26 Steward also predicted that when the pair eventually meet , Lewis will win saying : ‘ I think Lennox will be too strong mentally for Bowe .
27 Having reached this conclusion Marx and Engels then realized that if kinship was the system which organized primitive societies , then , kinship in these societies , had to be completely different from what it was in capitalist society .
28 From the field man 's point of view , it is immaterial whether the water itself appears obviously polluted or whether a pollution has produced harmful consequences such as dead fish .
29 Added to this , at the time of retrieval subjects may have simply assumed that since this was an experiment about risk , the experimenter really wanted them to recall the risky situations .
30 As for the barking dragoman , Gustave merely records that when they heard the village dog in the distance , he ordered the policeman to fire his pistol in the air .
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