Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volumes of almost 900m shares reflected not only the Midland placing , but also a sizeable number of program trades , where institutions inject or extract large blocks of funds across a range of stocks at a pre-arranged time and at pre-determined prices . |
| 2 | Mansell , 39 , is still young by Indy standards , where drivers compete and win well into their fifties . |
| 3 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 4 | Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right . |
| 5 | When Bathsheba first appeared at the weekly Casterbridge market , where farmers bought and sold their wheat and animals , she caused a sensation . |
| 6 | Development of N. lapillus eggs is slow , taking about four months in temperate latitudes but up to seven in the White Sea , where eggs overwinter and hatch in the following year ( Fretter and Graham , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Inspired by the coral coasts of Papua New Guinea ( where Liz lived and worked for nine years ) , this aquarium on silk is made by using a rubber-based glue called gutta in the same way that wax is used in the batik process . |
| 8 | As we leave the womb , enter the world and grow , and get over the initial wonder of walking , we change our pre-natal wheelchair for a series of substitute wheelchairs — bicycles , motor-cycles , cars , taxis , buses , trains , aeroplanes — and chairs ( in houses , schools , offices ; anywhere where people gather and sit ) . |
| 9 | First is a low-key step of gathering intelligence and planting seeds — just finding out where people stand and leaving behind a germ of the idea to let it blossom . |
| 10 | Where characters appeared and disappeared at random , and the plot was therefore ever-changing and never got anywhere . |
| 11 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 12 | Returning to the three possibilities , consider the second , where competition exists and produces tolerably efficient results , but these are deemed undesirable . |
| 13 | Redruth , where Murdock lived while working in Cornwall . |
| 14 | And as he climbed into the car and started the chilled engine , he had to make a very strong effort indeed to close the door on the compartment of his mind where Marjorie belonged and open wide the door to careful logical thinking about the project and this newest complication . |
| 15 | As the individual WFS country data show , in some populations , mainly on the Indian sub-continent , where women marry and have their first child at an early age , the first born is the child least likely to survive infancy and early childhood . |
| 16 | The cultural variable of costing and benefit management may require careful handling , although experience suggests that approaches to this are usually cyclic . |
| 17 | There was no light in the window , so Vasilissa knocked and went in . |
| 18 | Once Chuck turned and grinned delightedly at her as he paused to mop his brow , and she smiled warmly back . |
| 19 | Drab and perhaps a little the worse for wear , sedate in unpretentious boards or cloth , they are cherished far more than copies reclothed and bedecked in elegant calf and morocco . |
| 20 | Although conservatives argued that visiting the shrine — particularly on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of the ending of the Pacific War — was a legitimate means of paying respect to the dead , others interpreted it as paying homage to an outdated militarist philosophy and its discredited adherents . |
| 21 | Paleontologists such as Edward Drinker Cope ( 1840–97 ) and Alpheus Hyatt ( 1838–1902 ) argued that evolution was a more purposeful process than Darwin imagined and suggested that Lamarckism would allow living things to play an active role in determining their species ' evolution . |
| 22 | Although Governments come and go , governance in the civil service sector of this country continues untainted . |
| 23 | Stadium racing on Monday nights once Ballyskeagh opens as planned in October . |
| 24 | When one dhāmi died the god chose another and was embodied in him so that , although dhāmis came and went , the god 's reputation endured . |
| 25 | Siemens AG says it won a Bulgarian contract worth more than $6.3m to modernise and expand the country 's telephone systems : Siemens will deliver more than 80,000 EWSD digital exchange lines and fibre cable : its Digicom Bulgarian joint venture set up last year with a local partner , will install the kit in Sophia and in northern Bulgaria by 1996 . |
| 26 | ‘ So Constanza went and met her mother halfway at Nice . |
| 27 | One advantage is that the number of seconds when grading one 's own eggs are usually less than producers experience when supplying a Packing Station . |
| 28 | This apparent contradiction is only resolved when we realize that man in his ( sic ) present state is sub-human — ie less than God intended and created . |
| 29 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 30 | The Reds dropped a few small bombs , killed far fewer people than calculation suggests and ignored militarily-attractive targets . |