Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we should look at parking spaces , because in the past we 've felt that if the universities and colleges have parking spaces we let them bring the traffic in the City . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've proved that when the ball moves at three on Saturday we 're all together . |
| 3 | I 've found that when the water is heavily coloured after a rain storm this is often the case and fish will be caught in bursts as they pass up and down the swim . |
| 4 | Cooperative women have realised that if the principle ‘ Each for all and all for each ’ is good in their shopping , it is equally good in production , in education , and in the affairs of the nation and of the world . |
| 5 | We have supposed that once the A-X association has been established , further training with A will endow both A itself and the associatively activated X with associative strength . |
| 6 | We have said that when a logogen reaches threshold ‘ a response is available ’ ; but since there are two output routes from the logogen system ( to the cognitive system and to the response buffer ) this term is ambiguous . |
| 7 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 8 | They have struggled since and the promotion battle is now in the melting pot . |
| 9 | Some writers have argued that since the parties became so strong , it was inevitable that the influence formerly exercised on the floor of the House should decline but that much the same influence is still exercised by the meetings of the parliamentary parties . |
| 10 | Some of those close to the Prime Minister have argued that if the artificial barrier posed by exchange controls were removed , the French franc and Italian lira would be forced to face the reality of the free market . |
| 11 | In addition , through a well-established tradition of legislative lobbying coupled with the complete juxtaposition of vested interests , the corporate businesses which largely control the extremely lucrative coal mining industry in Appalachia have ensured that while the profits returned from their increasingly automated ‘ long-wall ’ style of mining are being safely accumulated , the mineral taxes which they pay are derisory |
| 12 | The companies have decided that while the IEEE makes its decision on which proposal to adopt , they should press ahead with a technology they believe is feasible and that users want . |
| 13 | ‘ I am disheartened by C&A 's corporate clothing attitude and have decided that if the sleeve of my record must remain blank then I shall boycott C&A from now on , and my feet and bottom will remain bare until we settle this like grown men . ’ |
| 14 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 15 | On this issue , Hwang and Mai ( 1988 ) have shown that if the home firm 's conjectures were more ( less ) competitive than Cournot , the effect of the quota is to raise ( lower ) domestic prices relative to those that would have prevailed in the presence of tariffs . |
| 16 | Observations of lakes in southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have shown that where the pH level has fallen , a decline in the lower phytoplankton biomass and species variety takes place . |
| 17 | Previous studies in the adult have shown that where the parietal cells retain their ‘ embryological ’ distribution , the G cells are relatively sparse . |
| 18 | This interpretation could be applied to computer records , although some commentators have noted that where a document has undergone processing , as well as recording , it will not apply . |
| 19 | Using data for the period 1954–74 , Khalil and Hanna ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that since the scheme was initiated the dissolved salt content of the Nile at the head of the delta has increased by 29 per cent . |
| 20 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 21 | Studies in this area have indicated that too strict or too lax parental attitudes increase the risk of delinquency ( the work of John Bowlby , for example ) ; they have found that if a young child is deprived of close personal relationships with parents or parent figures then ‘ problem behaviour ’ is more common . |
| 22 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 23 | Many jurisdictions have taken the view that to insist on such service would unfairly disadvantage potential plaintiffs , and have provided that where an enterprise based abroad does business within the jurisdiction service may be effected at some business address there , without the need to serve any document abroad . |
| 24 | Its difficulties have meant that while the CAB workload expands , the services it can offer have had to be cut . |
| 25 | The report by the all-party Commons home affairs committee yesterday on racial attacks and harassment finds that serious reported offences have declined but that the total of less serious incidents has increased . |
| 26 | He was referring mainly to Ukraine and to Moldova , another republic with which tensions have flared and where the prospect of direct confrontation between two sovereign states looms . |
| 27 | He was referring mainly to Ukraine and to Moldova , another republic with which tensions have flared and where the prospect of direct confrontation between two sovereign states looms . |
| 28 | Some critics of the Delors Plan have maintained that while the creation of a European currency union may reap net benefits for a number of EC member countries , for others membership of such a union will be positively harmful , at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | A number of commentators have suggested that once the assessment procedures have been initiated parents become increasingly marginalised in the process . |
| 30 | Ministers , including Mr Pik Botha , the foreign minister who negotiated the transition agreement , have suggested that if the UN can not control SWAPO it should get out . |