Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Belgium the outstanding example is Tournai Cathedral which , although added to and altered later , is certainly one of the finest Romanesque buildings in Europe . |
| 2 | But what could be worthier of my human intelligence than to discriminate between and interrelate the parts of a painting or musical composition with the concentration of a mathematician solving a problem , yet respond to them with the immediacy of a dog pricking up its ears ? |
| 3 | It dropped fast , keeping its upright stance at first , than turning as if emptying itself , and the men fell out . |
| 4 | The willingness to share in the experiences of patients ; to share their sense of loss , disappointment , anger and grief and the spiritual anguish which can challenge the way they have thought , perhaps believed and behaved in the past , can add to your nursing care much more than withdrawing from or denying such experience . |
| 5 | Certain contracts are excepted and are therefore not cancellable under the Regulations ( even if made during or following an unsolicited visit or an excursion ) , namely any contract : |
| 6 | Ever since that event I have never taken a trolley off anyone , and have explained why if needed to and told as many people as possible about it . |
| 7 | Third , the goods produced by bureaus are public goods in the sense that they are unlikely to be provided if charged for and offered for sale . |
| 8 | It also implies that data users need to continually monitor/audit the data held , to assess changes in relevance etc. , a complex and time-consuming process for modern databases , unless accounted for when designing the system . |
| 9 | Thus , while conjoining with and serves as a powerful cue to put the atomic individuals together , it can be offset by mixing the description types of the atomic descriptions . |
| 10 | while mounting into or dismounting from or travelling in any private motor car not belonging to the Policyholder or wife/husband and not hired to either under a hire purchase agreement |
| 11 | Her arms she knows not whether to swim with or to hold before her . |
| 12 | She did not rage so much against Aunt Emily but more at herself for being so naive as to agree to and promote a plan that any less raw and unworldly creature than herself would have seen was hardly possible . |
| 13 | ‘ Experiences , relationships etc are considered to be supportive when the individual involved sees the experience tin terms of his values , goals , expectations , and aspirations ) as contributing to or maintaining his sense of personal worth and importance . ’ |
| 14 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 16 | Here it seems important to distinguish between Hitler 's image as portrayed to and perceived by the mass of the population , in which anti-Semitism was no more than a subsidiary component of the ‘ Führer myth ’ , and his image as viewed from within the Nazi Movement and sections of the State bureaucracy , where his ‘ mission ’ to destroy the Jews functioned as a symbolic motivating force for the Party and SS , and an activating and legitimating agent for government initiatives to ‘ force the pace ’ in finding a ‘ radical solution ’ to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 17 | Mating strategies are clarified , as predicted from and elaborated in captive studies : subadult males are more active sexually than adults , but the latter focus on peaks of female fertility . |