Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The annual value of mergers more than trebled from a fairly stable trend in 1966 and 1967 . |
| 2 | When a norm is internalized , it is part of a person , automatically expressed in behaviour , rather than regarded in a more detached way as a rule external to the self . |
| 3 | It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end . |
| 4 | Nothing is more fundamental than to work on a precisely accurate plan from the outset . |
| 5 | Another sequence with enhancer-like character has been described in the S-phase regulated histone H4 , although located at a very distal position with respect to the transcription start point ( 21 ) . |
| 6 | We have had a good year , barring accidents , and although the summer weather was disastrous we have been more than compensated by the most beautiful Autumn ever . |
| 7 | What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ? |
| 8 | Yet Labour has a bigger vested interest in there being a European Parliament which — during the transition to a more federal union — co-legislates with the Council , rather than exists as a largely powerless consultative assembly . |
| 9 | Rather than moving towards the much vaunted Japanese way of doing things , America is moving in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | Although based in a traditionally strong tourist area , the DVT claims passenger figures have dropped by only 4.4% and turnover by 6.1% , yet traffic receipts fell by a dramatic £173,000 ! |
| 11 | Although amounting to no more than 3 per cent of the average household 's income , the rates bill arrived on people 's door mat as a single lump sum annual charge . |
| 12 | A report of the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee in April 1992 noted that ‘ most companies do no more than comply with the very limited disclosure requirements of SSAP 13 and some do not even do that . |
| 13 | The improvement in the speed and comfort of coach travel over the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was very striking , although overshadowed by the even more dramatic later impact of the railways . |
| 14 | Although set in an overtly political atmosphere , its purpose is unashamedly entertainment . |
| 15 | Flying is often safer than towing into a really strong and gusty wind . |
| 16 | Although dealing with a much smaller area confined to Insula XIV , an Insula which is half the size of most of the others , nevertheless , as many as 1293 well stratified vessels of coarse ware are published . |
| 17 | Because the definition of ‘ informal carer ’ can be so vague , we decided to focus on each person 's principal carer ( if there was one ) , defined on the objective criterion that he or she spent a minimum of seven hours per week ( on average one hour per day ) doing things with or on behalf of the dementia sufferer , rather than rely on the more subjective criterion of who appears to be most responsible for the sufferer . |
| 18 | .. were of a violet grey colour , and seemingly very dense , for although endowed with an almost inconceivably powerful ascensive force , they retained to the zenith their rounded summits . |
| 19 | Why does it seem important that the answer should have some ‘ objective ’ quality about it , an insight into history , society , knowledge , rather than point to a merely personal obsession ? |
| 20 | In fact , rather than talking of an explicitly ‘ Woodville ’ affinity , it is probably more realistic to see the family as part of the royal connection . |
| 21 | In fact , rather than talking of an explicitly ‘ Woodville ’ affinity , it is probably more realistic to see the family as part of the royal connection . |
| 22 | Abrams and Marsden ( 1987 ) found that it was easier to care for a heavily dependent person where there was an underlying positive relationship , than to care for a less dependent person where feelings were ambiguous or hostile . |
| 23 | In 1914 Bramah began an entirely different set of stories with Max Carrados who , on the dust jacket of the first edition , is described as ‘ a detective of a totally new and unexpected type , for he is blind ; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses ’ . |
| 24 | Although couched in the typically occult language of the time , Garland 's prescient account catches society at a crossroads : those young homosexuals adrift in a postwar landscape without signs may now be seen as harbingers of a new way of life and a new economic order — variously described as pop culture , youth culture or the Teen age — which stand at the heart of ‘ late , consumer or multinational capitalism ’ . |
| 25 | All appearances to the contrary , the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics , albeit deployed in a very special way . |
| 26 | For example , most scientists are now convinced that the cerebral cortex is parcellated into specialized sub-areas rather than working as a fully integrated system . |
| 27 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 28 | Pain and its Conquest concentrates on perception cognition and emotion , and the ways of manipulating these by verbal and intellectual means rather than concentrating on the more traditional methods of control by cutting , by blocking or the more recent manipulating of existing control systems by chemical or electrical stimulation . |
| 29 | A variety of isolated fractions or tissues from post-implantation mouse embryos will continue to grow and differentiate if placed in a well vascularized site in an immunologically compatible adult host ( 2 ) . |
| 30 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |