Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the final syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong , or ends with more than one consonant , that final syllable will be stressed . |
| 2 | That managed competition may increase in time but it is stretching credibility a long way to suggest that a company that accounts for more than 96 per cent . |
| 3 | BI The name of the mythical northern cockerel ; a reverie that lasts for more than twenty ( Earth ) years |
| 4 | A benefit concert is a two-hour show that begins at 7.30pm and goes on till dawn when members of the audience are either asleep or drunk . |
| 5 | There is a partial line on the map which I think this Council agreed before my time but that is not a line which could be implemented because it starts from nowhere and goes to nowhere and we are still I believe in , in , in limbo so far as the exact route which might be proposed either the northern or the southern end . |
| 6 | It is a fair question , and allows of more than one answer . |
| 7 | The American Adventure opens at 10.00am and closes between 5.00pm and 7.00pm depending on the time of year . |
| 8 | It 's long and straight and takes for ever but eventually we get to the outskirts of Newbury . |
| 9 | Built in 1775–9 round a large quadrangle , the hall is on two and three storeys with continuous colonnades , and consists of more than three hundred separate rooms or offices where cloth makers displayed their wares to the wholesale merchants on Saturday mornings . |
| 10 | Direct Line Insurance , which first located in Glasgow in 1988 , purchased one of the new office developments in the central business district and expects to more than double its employment in the city . |
| 11 | Surveys on buildings close to the explosion in St Mary Axe will continue today , but initial estimates put the bill for rebuilding and repairs at more than £200 million . |
| 12 | In only 12 years , Alan Campbell has developed a super-efficient , highly reputable , Internationally-acclaimed business affiliated ( as Trading Members ) to the British Institute of Freight Forwarders ' Association providing exporters with the knowledge that the company has indemnity insurance and operates with properly and highly qualified staff . |
| 13 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 14 | Summerchild taps on the hardboard divisions to demonstrate their solidity and stops at once when they ring hollow . |
| 15 | The first appeared initially in 1967 and runs to more than 400 pages . |