Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like one of those terrible sights of the racecourse or the battle field where wallowing living beings persevere dumbly in their duty although mutilated beyond repair . |
| 2 | If you are into backpacking , self-sufficient trekking abroad , or expeditions of any kind where carrying heavy loads is essential , you will be interested in Karrimor 's newly launched Aurora SA7000 rucksack , their latest big load carrier . |
| 3 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 4 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 5 | Service pipes can run the length of the house and may need insulating against frost damage where exposed . |
| 6 | Everything else was on the same scale — an orchestra of sixty players to dance to , eight large buffets with four tiers on each so laden with food that hardly an inch of rosewood or mahogany showed , a winter garden where gentlemen could smoke their cigars , and a long terrace where perspiring dancers could escape the candle fumes and wander in the warm , starlit twilight . |
| 7 | Yet society tends to lavish care and protection upon normal babies far surpassing that accorded anencephalics or even cases of Down 's syndrome and mongolism where letting die ( ‘ passive euthanasia ’ ) is frequently defended . |
| 8 | Take corrective action where required |
| 9 | Control establishes standards of performance , measures performance against the appropriate standards and identifies corrective action where required . |
| 10 | Control means to establish standards of performance , measure performance against those standards , and take corrective action where required . |
| 11 | It is then developed in seven statements to a climactic definition of the nature of the fire of love ; they are brought to a triumphant conclusion by juxtaposing a negative statement with its positive form to indicate ways in which the third degree of singular love fulfils and transcends the longing of the earlier stages : The phrase from The Song of Songs ( 5:2 ) which heralds the arrival of the beloved , here conveys a sense of a transformed newly awakened consciousness where longing and the unquiet ego are quenched . |
| 12 | Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown has threatened to sue an American television network over reports that , while Governor of California , he threw parties where marijuana and cocaine where used . |
| 13 | Similarly , the title of mayor or lord mayor where retained adds to the social status but not to the legal position of the person holding the chair of the council . |
| 14 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 15 | On the other hand , when the free-swimming ancestor of plaice and halibut , being , like a herring , vertically flattened from side to side , took to the bottom , it was better off lying on its side than balancing precariously on its knife edge of a belly ! |
| 16 | But I still prefer him in my side than playing against me . |
| 17 | Once again the newspaper cartoon was a favourite Iraqi medium for attacking the opposition , although in the US and other Western countries an independent press was more concerned with circulation than serving any political or military purpose . |
| 18 | Yet , encouraged by Tory Central Office , sections of the Press are keener to criticise Labour for the quality of its opposition than to slam the Government for policy failures . |
| 19 | This is a larger offset than seen for Vela , where the radio pulse leads the peak of the first γ -ray pulse by 0.126 0.006 phase . |
| 20 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 21 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 22 | There is an overwhelming body of evidence that British employers are more aware of the importance of training for their future than has ever been the case in the past . |
| 23 | Underlying the Unionist acceptance of coalition in 1918 was a darker attitude to the future than appeared in the coalition programme . |
| 24 | He has also convinced the Scots he cares far more about their future than did his predecessor , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 25 | Such fees , it claimed , would be more effective in halting deforestation than logging bans . |
| 26 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 27 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 28 | Yet it is easier to sense the swing of history against traditional religion than to measure it . |
| 29 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 30 | Thus , the left ansae subclaviae innervates most of the ventricular myocardium , and stimulation of the left stellate ganglion results in a greater overflow of adrenaline in coronary sinus blood than does stimulation of the right stellate ganglion . |