Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The British mandate censor , a Jewish man called Arieh Siev — a nice fellow although we never saw eye-to-eye — refused to let us print . |
| 32 | It was then time to dig over the kitchen garden , although we now had help . |
| 33 | Often a local authority is a loose federation of ( departmental ) states rather than one strongly unified body . |
| 34 | I probably , homework , because her daughter was dying or something and she , her daughter was quite seriously ill and taken to hospital , so we just had Miss so we were n't given any homework for that |
| 35 | The last two are different from the first five visual elements in that , although they also convey information , they are not part of the interaction in the same way . |
| 36 | Today , in the country , you are more than likely to see women still washing in this way , although they now use lixivia ( bleach ) , sold in bright plastic bottles which , empty and discarded , can often be seen in a river bed or floating out to sea . |
| 37 | It is difficult for her and others to grapple with the fact that , although they often oppose racism on behalf of Asian communities , they find themselves unable to control and dictate the forms that anti-racism takes . |
| 38 | using toluidine blue-stained tissue also failed to find aluminium or silicon in the plaque cores , despite using a technique ( laser microprobe mass analysis ) capable of parts-per-million sensitivity , although they consistently find aluminium in neurofibrillary tangles using this technique . |
| 39 | They never see the naturalists who work there , who ca n't speak Spanish anyway ; so they just see science and naturalism as a gringo thing . |
| 40 | The taps at Chacombe House have now all been fixed so they only produce water at less than forty-three degrees centigrade . |
| 41 | To date , new services have all been on lines owned by Rail Freight — so they currently pay infrastructure costs which would otherwise fall to county councils . ’ |
| 42 | The study 's starting point was a UN forecast that the world 's population will reach around 11.5 billion by the end of the next century , although it also took account of upper forecasts which suggest figures of 12.5 billion by 2050 and 28 billion by 2150 . |
| 43 | The offence of incest prohibits certain sexual relations within the family , thus providing a distinct label for some forms of child sexual abuse by parents and grandparents , although it also covers brother — sister relationships . |
| 44 | Although it still contains air , it can no longer support the weight of the car . |
| 45 | It is hard work for most amateurs , using unaccustomed muscles , to double dig a whole plot , and although it undoubtedly improves fertility , the effort and perspiration always feels more justified when you understand why you are expending it — so here is the explanation . |
| 46 | Although he later affected contempt for the poor , Walters had grown up the son of a working-class Leicestershire Communist . |
| 47 | I am lecturing all over the place , ’ explained the explorer.However , although he also finds time for lectures to raise money for good causes , like his visit to Snape , Sir Ranulph is a notoriously private celebrity.He rarely gives interviews , and does not keep hand-out photographs of himself . |
| 48 | In his Life of Hooker Walton states that in the original lost manuscripts there was no mention of kings being accountable to the people ; and he relates how Charles I , in a discussion with the Parliamentary leader Lord Saye , refused to accept any arguments based on the last three books , because it was doubtful whether they were authentic , although he gladly accepted Hooker 's judgements in the first five . |
| 49 | He has again been selected to represent his country at this September 's World Championships , again to be held in Ibiza , although he desperately needs sponsorship to repeat his feats of last season . |
| 50 | Then , although he sometimes has trouble walking and talking even on dry land , he seems to levitate about three inches off the ground . |
| 51 | Nazmu Virani , although he never drinks alcohol , links his best deal to a brewery . |
| 52 | The family was clearly influential , perhaps having been helped by his brother who was archbishop of Canterbury , and a third brother was an alderman , although he never became mayor . |
| 53 | But perhaps the best measure of Paul 's ability was that , although he never sought publicity or acclaim , he was voted Palace 's Player of Year for two consecutive seasons , both of which were spent in Division One , in 1979–80 and 1980–81 . |
| 54 | Although he often uses occupation and length of time in educational institutions as the axes for his displays and charts , in the text he attempts to encompass a far greater range of differences based on gender , age and expectation . |
| 55 | Through the Schola Cantorum , d'Indy and his colleague Charles Bordes did more than anyone else to promote interest in Rameau . |
| 56 | ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’ |
| 57 | As it excludes the concentration of these means of production , so it also excludes cooperation , division of labour within each separate process of production , the social control and regulation of the forces of nature , and the free development of the productive forces of society . |
| 58 | The hope on the part of the Berkeley Software contingent that Novell Inc will quash the suit once it finally takes Unix Labs over may turn out to be a forlorn one . |
| 59 | I was angry enough that night to rape you , but I was also very deeply in love , and I wanted more than anything else to make love to you . |
| 60 | ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained . |