Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An area involved in memory should be more active during tasks that have a high memory component than during those that place few demands on memory . |
| 2 | The nature of these changes is less well understood than of those that occur in bacteria adapting to new chemical environments . |
| 3 | Except to those that love them . |
| 4 | He also promised unilaterally to reduce Soviet strategic nuclear warheads to 5,000 , rather than to 6,000 as required under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) [ see pp. 38320-21 ] ; challenged the USA to open negotiations to effect deeper cuts , i.e. a further 50 per cent reduction , in the strategic nuclear arsenal of both countries ; and called on the USA to join the Soviet Union in imposing a ban on nuclear testing for at least a year and to renounce the " no first use " nuclear strategy . |
| 5 | The results suggest that M paratuberculosis isolated from man exists in a form which hardly replicates if at all when cultured in MG3 medium in vitro , and are consistent with the involvement of this known animal enteric pathogen in a proportion of chronic enteritis in man . |
| 6 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |
| 7 | With an almost unanimous vote at its 40th congress in Geneva , the party said that the word " communism " was being dropped because of all that had been done in its name . |
| 8 | After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both . |
| 9 | I know you are over age ( over 21 , she means , he said ) but I worry about you because of all that happened ( she means me being an orphan , he said ) . |
| 10 | She felt that the children did not like her because of this and seemed to be taking less and less notice of her . |
| 11 | ‘ Because underneath all that starch there 's a great deal of passion in you . |
| 12 | Tonight the weather might discourage supporters from attending but for those that do , manager Mick promises a treat . |
| 13 | But , she went on : ‘ However , in the present era of instant world-wide communication , it would be unrealistic to seek to prevent , whether under existing or amending legislation , the reporting in the media generally of statements emanating from illegal organisations , whether they purport to issue from Dublin or elsewhere . ’ |
| 14 | Gets here as near eight-thirty as makes no odds , and works till about ten . |
| 15 | As with tensile and bend testing , torsion testing may be done under various stress or displacement programs . |
| 16 | Once more the medial sound has confused him , as with pinched and chucked . |
| 17 | A State may have accepted restrictions upon its treaty-making power by surrendering all or some of its foreign affairs powers to another State , as with protected and protecting States . |
| 18 | There was , however , a greater awareness of the need to develop a framework of rules which could operate in the interests of the world community as a whole — against terrorism or narcotics , for instance — and a greater readiness to establish relations with traditionally conservative states , such as the Arab monarchies , as well as with those that claimed to adhere to Marxism-Leninism . |
| 19 | This is not arbitrary — it is designed so that it operates just as well with colour-blind predators as with those that have good colour vision . |
| 20 | Indeed , one might hope for still more in the way of functional explanation much of the syntactic machinery of a language seems to be concerned with the linear re-organization of material in sentences ( as in passive or topicalized constructions ) , a re-organization which does not seem substantially to affect the ( truth-conditional ) semantic content . |
| 21 | To examine the effects of PSL , SASP , and 5-ASA on ADCC activity as well as on natural and lymphokine activated killer activity , those drugs were added at various concentrations to the cultures in all three kinds of assays already described . |
| 22 | She would have described herself quite objectively as aged 35 and looking neither older nor younger , height 5 feet 4 and usually just under nine stone with a figure that was well kept rather than dramatic . |