Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the same should happen to her , Margaret knows that Gemma will benefit to the tune of at least DOUBLE the original basic sum assured . |
| 32 | It must now be asked if the same could said in the mid-1980s . |
| 33 | as if the dead could answer . ’ |
| 34 | She said that my grandad was even shaved by the undertaker when lying in his coffin , so if the dead could shave there was no excuse for the living . |
| 35 | And the grandmother 's homily in all its macabre detail , leading up to ‘ so if the dead could shave there 's no excuse for the living ’ releases a humorous response because it seems just what a respectable parent would say , in desperation to whip her errant son back to the straight ‘ n ’ narrow . |
| 36 | He tensed himself , ears straining , wondering if the French would pursue him and , when he safely reached the top of the alleyway , breathed a sigh of relief and continued on his way back to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 37 | If the French should take them and see them directed to such noted men , they might take care to send them to them . |
| 38 | If the English would execute the son of Sir Alexander Seton , a noted Scots knight , would they hesitate over ordinary townsfolk ? |
| 39 | Dahlerus had spent the morning in one last effort to save the situation , and Goering had , in fact , ordered a plane to be prepared and standing by to fly him to London if the British would accept . |
| 40 | It doubted if the British could hold even the line of the Suez canal against a Soviet attack , while their own conduct and historical record might jeopardize the position behind them . |
| 41 | How to avoid freeze-ups — and what to do if the worst should happen |
| 42 | But it gives you the peace of mind to know that , if the worst should happen , you could cope with the situation . |
| 43 | If I differentiated this I 'd get two X cos the two would disappear . |
| 44 | In order to deal with the problem of an assembler of a finished product , s1(2) allows the consumer to treat any party in the chain of distribution as the producer , unless the latter can identify his supplier . |
| 45 | We choose to consider a system programmer 's view rather than that of an application programmer ( even at the assembler language level ) , because the latter would expect to use facilities provided by supervisory software to mask the hardware treatment of such things as transput control . |
| 46 | Of these , addition-cured compounds are generally superior to condensation polymers , because the latter can lose accuracy through diffusional loss of byproducts . |
| 47 | Those with new , more productive equipment are prepared to pay higher wages to attract labour than are those with older machinery because the former can operate profitably at higher wage levels than the latter . |
| 48 | For Tibetan freedom and for thousands of years of long life for His Holiness the Dalai Lama — and because the Chinese should leave Tibet . |
| 49 | The former will make a strong statement , enhancing the rest of the display , whereas the latter could result in a fussy mess in which it becomes impossible to enjoy any of the plants as individuals . |
| 50 | The former benefited from the full market value of his site in residential use , whereas the latter could benefit only from its existing use value . |
| 51 | Whereas the Chinese would take only clear amber and the Dutch had a preference for it , the Russians went for cloudy amber . |
| 52 | They may well be cumulative , since poorer groups can less easily afford to bear any organization costs , whereas the wealthy can meet similar costs easily . |
| 53 | At present the thrifty working man could be refused the benefit of the OAP Act , while the thriftless could receive it … |
| 54 | While the former may relish the proposed new responsibility , the latter may actively resist releasing such a valued member of staff . |
| 55 | The difference between need and dare and the modals is simply that the latter are by the very nature of their lexical meaning incapable of evoking a reality , while the former can evoke potentialities only in non-assertive use . |
| 56 | The former query , until recently , would have been classified in the ‘ Housing , property and land ’ section while the latter would have been classified as a ‘ Social security ’ enquiry . |
| 57 | The former can be easily damaged by careless use or everyday wear and tear , while the latter can fray due to fittings swaying in the breeze , and can become brittle with age . |
| 58 | The former will always appear arrogant , while the latter will seek appeasement . |
| 59 | Thus , while the five may have remained united , and the EEC survived intact , the ‘ victory ’ went largely to France . |
| 60 | While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of penury . |