Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give credit card details , say ‘ please debit my card accordingly ’ , state whether you want it posted or if youll collect it on the day , and finally give your voice number for them to call ‘ if there are any problems ’ . |
| 2 | Give credit card details , say ‘ please debit my card accordingly ’ , state whether you want it posted or if youll collect it on the day , and finally give your voice number for them to call ‘ if there are any problems ’ . |
| 3 | To quote the report , they live in caravans ‘ because they could not get other dwellings in the right places or on the right terms ; or because caravans meet their needs for cheapness , convenience or mobility ’ . |
| 4 | Cromer dominated Egypt , not because England gave him force , or because Egypt loved us , but because he was so good a man . ’ |
| 5 | USL 's other stockholders , Sun , ICL , Amdahl , Fujitsu , Motorola , NEC , Oki , Toshiba , Olivetti , Tata and 3i , may not have a say in what eventually happens or whether Novell takes it all . |
| 6 | ( Contractors ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 3 All ER 557 ( CA ) the question arose whether profits lost in consequence of physical damage were alone recoverable , or whether profits lost which were not related to physical damage were also recoverable . |
| 7 | Where before Oulton teased her interpreters with titles such as ‘ Lachrimae ’ and ‘ Vanitas ’ , her new paintings have sterner names such as ‘ Transparence No 7 ’ . |
| 8 | Or as Krafft-Ebing put it , ‘ The sexual functions of men exercise a very marked influence upon the development and preservation of character ’ , so that manliness and self reliance were not the qualities which one would expect from the ‘ impotent onanist ’ . |
| 9 | By holding technological and market factors more or less constant , comparison allows one to ‘ highlight the relative influence of the national power contexts ’ ( Dunlop 1958 : 129 ) ; or as Bean puts it . |
| 10 | Or as tenants saw it , the lack of policing in the flats . |
| 11 | Or as Jakobson put it , ‘ the subject of literary science is not literature , but literariness , i.e. that which makes a given work a literary work ’ ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 17 ) . |
| 12 | Oddly enough — those of you who may recall what it was like in the Ruhr ( or as crews called it " The Happy Valley " ) — on this occasion there was one searchlight waving about near the top of the Ruhr , and for one agonising moment it waved over the Whitley , and there was another one at the bottom by the Cologne end . |
| 13 | In her analyses of Freud 's conception of female sexuality , she demonstrates that Freud 's view of women as lack or as absence forces them into the discursive position of the hysteric because it denies them autonomous identity and obliges them to mimic the voice of the dominant male if they wish to be heard at all ( 1974:66–71 ) . |
| 14 | As Shaw LJ said " It is not the law that where confidentiality exists it is terminated or eroded by adventitious publicity . |
| 15 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 16 | We should have known that once Singapore fell there was little hope of holding Burma . |
| 17 | It appears that once science gained its independent identity , scientists and artists used perspective for increasingly different purposes . |
| 18 | It seemed that once people met him they decided they were better off having him as a friend than an enemy . |
| 19 | I knew that cos Lewis picked it up . |
| 20 | She knew that if Phoebe needed her , if she could even imagine that Phoebe might ever need her , she would have no problem , no problem at all , dealing with Fenna . |
| 21 | Northampton did not cheer up much either , because though Orrell lost to Wasps they know that if Bath win their home match against Saracens Bath will triumph on points difference . |
| 22 | He looked in her direction and they exchanged smiles and Ruth somehow felt that if Steve thought she was in trouble and needed bailing out he would come over immediately . |
| 23 | She said that if Constanza went it would break her heart . |
| 24 | It follows that if teachers believe they are incompetent or impotent in these matters , they will accept and expect that the proper strategy is to pass on the problems to suitably qualified colleagues . |
| 25 | He 's worried that if Zekel knows he has a Porsche , the Jew will drive a harder bargain and the haggling between them — which is already prolonged — will become interminable . |
| 26 | She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow . |
| 27 | And , in an argument utterly characteristic of the mercantilist view of a conflict-ridden world , Norris raised the bogey of the old rival France ; he claimed that France 's naval power had been so strengthened by her own involvement in the slave trade that if Britain discontinued it not only would her commercial prosperity decline but she would lose naval predominance . |
| 28 | In many countries the government stimulates such enterprises by providing some start-up capital , but the spokesman for our government came across very poorly , with totally negative comments to the effect that if inventors thought they could rely on the government for help , they were wrong . |
| 29 | ‘ She is probably afraid that if Anthony likes you too much she will be excluded , ’ she said slowly through the pain . |
| 30 | ‘ I still find some of the things she does difficult to understand even after all these years , but I have grasped her conviction that people have only a finite quantity of affection to give and her terror that if Anthony lets anyone new have any she will have that much less for herself . |