Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got to 'ave him done away with , afore the licence is due . |
| 2 | ‘ You must have been in a hurry to come out without your coat ; you 'll feel the chill afore the night 's out . ’ |
| 3 | " Like as not we 'll be at war again afore the decade 's out . " |
| 4 | Afore the road ? |
| 5 | Afore the road , yes they just towed through the mud and |
| 6 | And they would lay just when and collect them eggs that night afore the gale . |
| 7 | And then Jess said : ‘ Come in … come in , afore the weather does thee an injury ! ’ smiling at him . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think our Matthew 'll be home afore the babby comes ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That was us when we all worked in the shop , afore the War . ’ |
| 10 | I also knew then that seeing the film at a matinee on a weekday was an illicit pleasure for her . |
| 11 | Her mind was too busy seeing the man who had wearily let her go , not wilfully , as she had always imagined , but finally , for what he thought was her own good . |
| 12 | The nature of these skills will be discussed below , but at this point it is necessary to recognise that seeing the process in this , light may create a gap between a teacher 's purpose and a child 's purpose for engaging in project-work methods . |
| 13 | probably the sensible course is for most books to be ordered sight unseen , with the occasional title requested ‘ on approval ’ when it is thought that seeing the book would be helpful . |
| 14 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 15 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 16 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 17 | This neoelitism took issue with pluralism initially in reaction to the voting studies of Berelson and others , but the major battleground was the community power debate , where the revision of democratic theory had practical implications for research methods and theoretical implications for the definitions of power . |
| 18 | Other cases are those where the agent 's knowledge and motivation can be surmised from the circumstances of his life ( parents or children ) or where a special arrangement is made to make sure of them ( e.g. , when legislators are periodically elected , thus providing them with motives to find out what are their electors ' best interests and to satisfy them , at least where the prestige , power , and lawful remuneration of their office are their only rewards and where these rewards are themselves substantial ) . |
| 19 | They really mattered in a society remote from our own where the prestige of many professions , including the polite ranks of clergy and the armed services , catered to the motivations only of duty , vocation , or ambition . |
| 20 | On 14 December 1991 , the south-southeast-trending fracture widened ( maximum extension by April 1992 , 1.5m ) , lava was erupted close to the summit , and by 15 December activity had moved down to a site 2,400m a.s.l. where the fracture intersects the western cliff wall of the Valle del Bove . |
| 21 | Where the Think Tank tended to challenge Downing Street , the Policy Unit strengthened it . |
| 22 | ‘ Like I say , where the Milettis are concerned , rather you than me , my friend . |
| 23 | Now there 's a title which says what it is , but booksellers should beware of Longman 's Think Ahead to First certificate where the sequel ( Think First Certificate ) was published first . |
| 24 | The book was printed at the Jubbulpore Mission Press where the Reverend L.A. Crain of the ABM Press of Rangoon was superintending . |
| 25 | Where the curl 'd Vine extends her willing Arms : |
| 26 | Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above . |
| 27 | the night sky where the hillside |
| 28 | No security dealer may deal in securities where it acted as an issuing house or in securities issued by itself , or in securities issued by another company where the trader holds an equity interest in excess of 10 per cent . |
| 29 | However , an arrangement where the trader 's losses are met by a third party , not for commercial reasons but solely to encourage the trader to keep trading , is not legitimate . |
| 30 | Where the sting is not a matter of general knowledge , its defamatory capacity is judged by its impact upon ordinary readers who have such knowledge — if the plaintiff can first prove that such persons were amongst the actual readership . |