Bedlam when the verb shows up very late in long sentences

It’s bound to happen sometime to any writer, whether professional or not, when he or she unwittingly strings together far too many words to form the subject of a sentence, and then doesn’t bother to check how excruciatingly tough to read the resulting sentence becomes.

Take a look and read—preferably aloud—this lead sentence of a recent opinion column in a leading Metro Manila daily: