Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Faculty Office or the Schools Liaison Office will be pleased to advise on this and also upon an appropriate choice of sixth year subjects , particularly where students have marginally failed to meet the entry requirements at the first sitting of Highers . |
| 2 | Unlike the American press , where papers serve geographically defined communities , the English press operates on a national scale and serves social groups or campaigning proprietors rather than complete communities . |
| 3 | Although Westerners have invariably regarded a lack of individualism as a negative feature , an impediment to democracy and equality , Japan 's recent history suggests that an overriding emphasis on the group and the community can produce considerable strength and may have considerable virtues . |
| 4 | In INDONESIA 95% of women know about family planning , but less than 25% have ever heard of immunization or oral rehydration , both vital aids to preventing child deaths . |
| 5 | Mr Baron 's 10 points yesterday were not fleshed out either , but they go further than MEPs have yet done . |
| 6 | Although LEAs have sometimes held on to powers at the centre which prevented decisions being made quickly and flexibly , they did provide an education service which allowed an effective response to diversity and need . |
| 7 | Losses of the one pound coin during its year of introduction were also alarmingly high , although people have now begun to take better care of them . |
| 8 | This has to be anticipated although Socata have obviously learnt a lesson from their earlier ranges — now there is an indent for the first stage and second stage is full flap . |
| 9 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 10 | Although psychiatrists have traditionally preferred to regard these two varieties of psychosis as distinctly separable ‘ diseases ’ , it now seems more probable — as we shall have occasion to state several times in this book — that that is not so . |
| 11 | Spencer 's argument was that although societies become more differentiated and heterogeneous this tends , not to chaos , but new forms of equilibrium . |
| 12 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 13 | The Taiwanese government passed legislation in harmony with the regulations of CITES ( the UN 's Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ) in 1989 , although environmentalists have since accused it of failing to enforce these laws sufficiently . |
| 14 | Although philosophers have seldom tried to generate an entire political philosophy from that elementary principle , in the law of contract the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory dominates modern legal thought . |
| 15 | Although others have also advocated the centralization of the financial management of advanced further education , including , of course , the DES in the 1981 White Paper , it is unlikely to come about , at least in the near future . |
| 16 | They are still much the same in appearance as they were then , and farmed in much the same way , although tractors have now replaced teams of oxen . |
| 17 | He leaps in the air as if ants have just bitten his bum , and I reach out , grab the papermate , and shoot out through the door . |
| 18 | If witnesses have already given evidence at the magistrates ' court the Crown Prosecution Service might be persuaded to discuss the impression that they made . |
| 19 | Where a journalist intends to refer to an unnamed individual , it is reasonable that the individual should have an action for libel if others have correctly identified him or her as the target , whatever literary devices have been used as camouflage . |
| 20 | Cattle may be short in specific areas because finishers have already pushed through everything they have got before they are hit with the complications of the subsidy system . |
| 21 | Need for official reserves Because governments have frequently intervened in foreign exchange markets , the operation of floating exchange rates has , like the adjustable peg system before it , required the availability of official reserves . |
| 22 | I usually call myself half German because people get so fed up with all the Germans who say they 're Austrian . ’ |
| 23 | We started everything from scratch , which is nice , because people get so stuck in their ways : you walk into a professional studio and things are always done in a certain way . |
| 24 | ‘ The loss of a pet can be just as upsetting as the death of a member of the family because people become so attached to them , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Members can present petitions at the close of business of the House each day , but in future should we disregard them because people have merely put their signatures to something which , according to the Minister , they may not give a damn about ? |
| 26 | Rhetoricians since Aristotle have carefully observed the potential of linguistic devices such as alliteration , irony , imagery and metaphor , among other things , to provoke identification and emotional commitment among listeners . |
| 27 | But even now , after a lengthy recession , with thousands of new ventures bankrupt and confidence badly shaken , there is still plenty of scope for the venture capitalist , particularly since banks have drastically curtailed their own lending . |
| 28 | For since fishermen require only trained aptitudes , and not any exceptional natural qualities , their number could be increased in less than a generation to almost any extent that was necessary to meet the demand ; while the industries connected with building boats , making nets , etc. being now on a larger scale would be organized more thoroughly and economically . |
| 29 | Donegal have n't lost a game in 12 months , while Derry have only lost three times in 27 months , so it should be quite a struggle . |
| 30 | While members have occasionally expressed surprise at the committee 's sudden appearance in the front line , their cooperation has demonstrated the value of a discreet forum for discussing and resolving difficult problems outside the disciplinary processes . |