Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this Europe there is a Benetton in every high street , Badoit and Czech Budweiser in every fridge , an Armani jacket in every wardrobe , Beaujolais Nouveau on every table , cable and satellite television channels in many languages in every living room , an Umberto Eco novel on every bookshelf , a Volvo in every garage , where CDs of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment lie casually next to Eurythmics , and where nipping across to Paris for the day is as natural as doing a day 's business in London . |
| 2 | As we have said , it exactly matches the needs of people who budget weekly , are probably paid weekly , and would find it difficult to cope with credit where paying in was left up to them . |
| 3 | Firstly , any lingering gossip about scams or hype evaporated at an impromptu set for Windsor 's assorted scruffians last summer , where Flowered Up revealed themselves to be well drilled in jazz funk slinkiness ( ! ) . |
| 4 | Both were essentially seminaries — a majority of undergraduates went into the church in the first half of the century- and finishing schools , where teaching rather than research was the norm . |
| 5 | ‘ Coincidentally , we are now seeing coming out of Eastern Europe that same broad attitude being adopted , not only by the democratic socialists and social democratic parties which are emerging in the East , but also amongst the reform wings of the old Communist parties led by a new generation who realise the command economy Stalinist game is completely up . |
| 6 | These valuations are way over the top and it is time a lot of these councillors where brought down to earth . |
| 7 | We 're very conscious of that erm and where , where we offered advice in large places where for instance , where housing where chemicals are stored and all the precautions that are needed are provided and built in , for instance stopping off the drains so that water is contained , providing sloping areas in , in the bottom of warehouses where water does n't come out , erm monitoring it telling people about it . |
| 8 | The benefit of these reactions have to be understood in terms of life in the wild , where fighting off predators , or fleeing from them , may literally be a matter of life or death . |
| 9 | Oh do , is that where forging ahead comes |
| 10 | The pearlescents have an historical precedence in Japanese prints , where ground up mother of pearl was used to catch the light but are otherwise an entirely novel kind of colour that invites experiment and stimulates the imagination . |
| 11 | The best way to practise your tiling skills if you 've never done any before if by covering just a small area such as a washbasin splashback , where setting out the tiles so they are centred on the area concerned is a simple job , and you have the minimum of tile cutting to do . |
| 12 | Where lighting consistently exceeds the recommended level for a particular area certain tubes could be removed , but in the case of switch start light circuits , the starter must also be removed otherwise this will continue to use power . |
| 13 | To scoffs of disbelief from some delegates , he asserted that , where managed safely and sensibly , nuclear power was one of the few energy sources which did not pollute the atmosphere . |
| 14 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
| 15 | Looking specifically at the mid-range commercial systems marketplace , Wendler believes that by 1995 , users are likely to reach a point where the cost of implementing open systems will be less than to carry on as they are . |
| 16 | In the absence of a specific object , it was assumed that the IRA may have intended little more than to carry out its threat to keep ‘ the war in the Ireland ’ in the limelight during the election campaign . |
| 17 | Then the time to locate an address in I 2 will be : I 1 will only be created when it is quicker to search I 1 and then the track to which it points in I 2 , than to carry out an average length search of I 2 . |
| 18 | Each such index can be used to give limited partial inversion , i.e. of one descriptor at a time , but they are generally provided and employed to allow the file to be accessed in ways other than by the major key , rather than to carry out an elimination of master file records not meeting some search criterion . |
| 19 | Victims were named but the report did not give details of those responsible , its remit being to document repression rather than to carry out a judicial investigation . |
| 20 | One answer is to discourage the generation of waste , directly by ’ polluter pays ’ rules , or indirectly through taxation ( eg , on non-returnable bottles ) — an idea easier to offer than to carry out . |
| 21 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't do anything else , Bob , ’ Howard said quietly , ‘ except sit here on my tod , as you put it . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do except sit tight , is there ? ’ |
| 24 | Once the message was on the wire , he had little else to do except sit back and wait for a few days . |
| 25 | An examination of the curricula of twenty LEAs enabled me to discover the word ‘ death ’ to be included in a third of the schemes for the different age groups from 7 to 14 , although tucked away beneath such general headings as ‘ Beliefs , Practices , Customs and Artefacts ’ ; ‘ Rites of Passage ( e.g. Initiation through Baptism , Burial Rites ’ ) ; ‘ Self-understanding ( e.g. Integrity , Pride , Humility , Loneliness , Suffering , Bereavement and Death ’ ) . |
| 26 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 27 | Frey in Rights , Killing and Suffering ( 1983 ) paints a detailed picture of the possible downfall of whole economies the minutiae of which , although hinting strongly at overkill , are nonetheless plausible enough to be disturbing ( 197–203 ) . |
| 28 | Indeed , they believe that instability in the past has been caused , rather than smoothed out , by governments ' futile attempts at demand-management policies . |
| 29 | a hexagon like that with a going inwards rather than sticking outwards , |
| 30 | Hate it as she might it would be harder to stop than to go on , almost like riding a tiger . |