Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water was quite pleasant , certainly better than when mixed with liquorice to make ‘ Spanish water ’ . |
| 2 | Firms might hold such stocks so that when faced with an unexpectedly high level of demand they can meet it without recourse to a sharp and possibly very costly increase in production . |
| 3 | Note that at the back of the head an allowance of approx. ½in has been left , and this is bevelled with a smoothing plane so that when viewed from above the head will lie at an angle to the neck . |
| 4 | It was more important to set the processors ' internal patch levels so that when switching between processors the levels still matched . |
| 5 | This means that total injections will also be autonomous so that when plotted against income on a graph , we have a horizontal straight line . |
| 6 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 7 | They can also be extremely awkward , never more so than when loaded with the needle-tips of a yucca or the sharks teeth of an agave . |
| 8 | A clamour of conflicting emotions warred within her while her treacherous body arched greedily to every movement he made , answering each speaking gesture as fluently as if used to long practice . |
| 9 | ‘ We choose every item personally as though shopping for ourselves , paying particular attention to practicality and originality . ’ |
| 10 | In Scotland there have been fatal aircraft accidents to private aircraft where the occupants were killed in their leisure time rather than while working in their normal occupation , and the procurator fiscal has decided not to take the matter on to the formal fatal accidents inquiry because he has satisfied himself that it was a matter of accidental death in an aircraft accident without suspicious circumstances . |
| 11 | The institution of bishops he defends as convenient and of long standing , rather than as based on Apostolic succession . |
| 12 | Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people . |
| 13 | These should be viewed as a means to an end , rather than as ends in themselves . |
| 14 | These diverging processes are best thought of as locally autonomous in the manner of the ‘ recursive ’ procedure of Chapter 3 , rather than as coordinated in some grand central design . |
| 15 | It is important to re-emphasize , however , that just because we are presenting an account of later life from the inside , rather than as judged by outsiders , this book does not attempt to present an objective measure of disadvantage . |
| 16 | The water hawthorn , Aponogeton distachyus , will grow if sown straight away or if kept until the following year , but loses its viability if allowed to dry out completely . |
| 17 | The core of the double-entry system is the ledger , in which all the transactions of the business must ultimately appear , either individually or as totals from subsidiary books , as shown by Fig. 5.1 . |
| 18 | Jane Camp is an enthusiast for the medium because it allows her to control wet-into-wet washes and paint out mistakes more easily than when working with watercolours |
| 19 | Our present calendar is a modification of the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar on 1 January 45 BC and since named after him ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Indeed they are , ’ he said calmly as though working on a crossword puzzle . |
| 21 | Molly raised her voice slightly as though speaking to a foreigner and tried to get to the heart of the matter . |
| 22 | Never before or since equalled for its length , number of sets and sheer volume of visual effects , this twelve part story remains a testament to the skills , planning and resourcefulness of Doctor Who 's most formative Director , Douglas Camfield , now sadly deceased . |
| 23 | On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences . |
| 24 | Subjects woken during an REM burst have been shown by S. Molinari and David Foulkes to report highly vivid visual experiences much more frequently than when woken from periods of REM " quiescence " . |
| 25 | It is worth repeating here that although discussed in four phases — assessing , planning , implementing and evaluating — individualising nursing is not a linear progression ; it assumes a built-in responsiveness to feedback at any of the phases , giving ample allowance for change within the overall framework . |
| 26 | The entrance to one at the east end of Loch Gorm , which can be seen when the water level is low , is rather puzzling and could as easily be the remains of a wall as a path to the island , particularly as when seen in those conditions there appear to be the walls of a square building on the south side about halfway to the island , and if the water level has been raised to improve the fishing it may not be a true crannog . |
| 27 | It sounded as though she were talking to someone she knew well , or at least had dealt with previously , because she called her interlocutor ‘ Tonio ’ and smiled continuously as though engaged in invisible wooing and sometimes she laughed . |
| 28 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 29 | The children performed these tasks either silently or while engaging in a task designed to suppress their vocalisation of the word names . |
| 30 | Penry closed his eyes tightly as though praying for patience . |