Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical expenses and repatriation costs to the UK ( where medically certified as necessary ) . |
| 2 | Where better to sit and be seen ? |
| 3 | This is a delightful bedside dipper of a book and where better to end than an epilogue — Mae West 's curtain speech to her play Catherine Was Great . |
| 4 | Similar findings have been reported for both mid and east Devon where both service and professional activities have increased considerably ( Glyn-Jones , 1979 ; 1982 ) . |
| 5 | Sub-contract labour may be hard to obtain for certain types of work : for example , small works where both output and continuity are difficult to control . |
| 6 | Flight has typical game-bird alternation of quick whirring and gliding on down-turned wings ; makes a great clatter when leaving trees , where habitually perches and feeds . |
| 7 | The men of Devon were in 1204 granted the right to ‘ assart , impark , take all kinds of venison , have dogs , bows and arrows and all kinds of weapons , and to make deerleaps ’ , except on the outskirts of the forests of Dartmoor and Exmoor , where neither deerleaps nor enclosures might be made . |
| 8 | Swisher ( 1976 ) in a thorough review of achievement in what she terms the ‘ oral deaf ’ , found problems in speech ( in word classes , in syntax and in length of utterance ) , in reading ( whether through achievement tests , completion tasks , or direct analysis of morphology , phrases and so on ) , and in writing ( where either limited or stereotyped production occurs ) . |
| 9 | Although widely described as boat people , a large number of the January arrivals had made most of the journey to Hong Kong aboard Chinese buses , only boarding boats for the last leg of their journey . |
| 10 | Although badly written and fairly unimaginative , they pass the ‘ wet test ’ in their descriptions of safer sex . |
| 11 | Although little known as yet over here , their unashamedly passionate lyrics and stunning vocal harmonies have earned them a big name in the States . |
| 12 | My contention is , then , that ‘ profession ’ in the bourgeois sense of a special kind of occupation also carries ambiguous connotations of ‘ professional ’ as non-amateur , as describing services performed for gain rather than satisfaction or obligation , of skills acquired rather than naturally endowed and of lowly , client-dependent status as against the honorific independence of the gentleman . |
| 13 | It becomes a matter of redefining priorities in the short and long term rather than naturally assuming that all change means ‘ bolted-on ’ activity , Once LMS is embedded in the educational culture there is little doubt that resources should be freed as there will be less and less need for central staff to be employed in the day-to-day operational management of schools . |
| 14 | It 's better to get comfortable with the approach in a situation where you are confident , like a weekly meeting , than suddenly to try and implement it when you are in a more testing situation , like an important sales presentation . |
| 15 | Their army was about half the size of Dara 's , although highly trained and confident . |
| 16 | Although highly educated and a ‘ technocrat ’ , Li was not a popular figure , and was viewed as an extreme example of ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. advancement by personal contacts . |
| 17 | It was theatre practice to put dancers in dressing-rooms situated at the top of the building which was totally illogical as troupes always had more changes of costume than solo acts and less time to complete them . |
| 18 | Stories like these do more than merely entertain or divert us . |
| 19 | Rather than merely assert that what we desire is already reality , therefore , I would argue that our job is to discuss the contradictions and possibilities in the law as it has developed historically , as part of and in response to political and economic struggles . |
| 20 | We shall not have a complete theory until we can do more than merely say that ‘ things are as they are because they were as they were . ’ |
| 21 | It occurs on a much larger scale than generally realised and in most cases the function is unclear . ’ |
| 22 | The Middle East Economic Survey , a trade publication which maintains close contact with OPEC delegates , said in a special edition at the weekend that the cartel might have to cut its output ceiling by 678,000 bpd more than already planned if it wanted to raise oil prices from levels around $18 a barrel . |
| 23 | There is a danger of an even greater divide than already exists until we get care management in child care |
| 24 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 25 | Navies all over the world do more than just try and blow each other out of the water , or go on desperate reconnaissance missions as seen on TV . |
| 26 | The oil of the present sitter now hangs at Woburn while the pastel is the only one of the group to depict the sitter half length , rather than just head and shoulders . |
| 27 | Achieving that goal means more than just exposing and preventing abuses ; adequate protection of human rights depends of people knowing what their rights are . |
| 28 | Mr Landon also argues that the problem goes much deeper than just testing but begins when children are first identified as having a problem . |
| 29 | How most people prefer to be actively involved in sailing the boat rather than just sitting and admiring the view . |
| 30 | There is a need to develop the differences further , rather than just saying that contradictory emotions can exist in the unconscious . |