Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [subord] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated , has not the art of getting drunk . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly , while he is alive , Shaposhnikov the cappy man refuses to be parted from his headgear ; he grabs it when he determines to leave , and he drops it when he is persuaded to stay . |
| 3 | Although judges should approve it before it is made , they normally make no enquiries and allow the parties to say whatever they like . |
| 4 | It was indeed Darwin 's wife , Emma , herself a scientist , who pointed out the real danger in the use of scientific method when she asked him : " May not the habit in scientific pursuits of believing nothing till it is proved , influence your mind too much in other things which can not be proved in the same way ? and which if true are likely to be above our comprehension ? " |
| 5 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 6 | The servant warns him if he is going to step into a hole , and reminds him to reply if someone speaks to him . |
| 7 | Remember , a Halberdier may not use a shield while wielding his weapon , but the shield will still benefit him when he is shot at by arrows , for example . |
| 8 | One Saturday afternoon store security officers stop her as she is leaving , search her bags and find 11 lb of sliced ham and half-a-dozen eggs in them . |
| 9 | If a firm is to be successful , it will have to generate sufficient income to cover the cost not only of financing a capital asset but of replacing it when it is worn out . |
| 10 | We must do the work , and we must do it where it is needed . |
| 11 | One character , Camille , can not pronounce them until he is fitted with a false palate one more object to get comically lost . |
| 12 | One character , Camille , can not pronounce them until he is fitted with a false palate : one more object to get comically lost . |
| 13 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 14 | My debt is not discharged , and I can not and will not forgo it until it is paid . |
| 15 | If we analyse the relation between the event of " passively experiencing " denoted by have and that of saying or happening denoted by the infinitive , it becomes obvious immediately that the two must be conceived as occurring in the same stretch of time : one can only experience something while it is happening . |
| 16 | Do n't be satisfied with buying something because it is described as ‘ green ’ . |
| 17 | The suggestion that he is not supporting her while she is receiving benefit can not therefore be taken as positive evidence that their relationship is not comparable to that of husband and wife . |
| 18 | Here again , if any particular type of equipment is absolutely essential in the bathroom , and finance is a problem , the social services department of the local authority may be able to help , and it is worth approaching them before anything is purchased or installed . |
| 19 | A wide recording head stretches across the jumbo roll of tape and magnetises it before it is slit to domestic size . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly one of the underlying trends among public opinion about mental handicap is that parents should decide ; whether to have the child , whether to keep it once it is born . |
| 21 | He has always been very bad about it , which is why he injured himself at Steve Hadley 's yard , and even now John has to dope him before he is clipped . |
| 22 | There is no overt recognition that fat women do not have equal access to sexual relationships : however , if a fat woman 's friends never ask her whether she is attracted to someone , they assume that she is single because she is fat and that she is likely to remain without a lover . |
| 23 | ‘ The Museum of London will then temporarily fill in the site to preserve and protect it while it is decided how it might be put on permanent display . ’ |
| 24 | I always welcome hearing it when it is delivered so lucidly from the mouth of the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) . |
| 25 | Will he tell us whether it is intended to give help for water projects , sanitation or afforestation ? |
| 26 | Thus the real question seems not to be whether we should detect the disease but how best we should treat it if it is detected . |
| 27 | In October 1912 Hourcade wrote : ‘ The term ‘ Cubism ’ … means nothing if it is used to designate a school : there is no school of Cubist painting . |
| 28 | It does n't take steps to repair wear and tear , or to right itself when it is knocked over , the way a living body does . |
| 29 | Mathematics is a wonderful subject but the physicist has always to ask himself whether he is using those mathematical constructs which are truly appropriate to the way the world is . |
| 30 | Another woman , evidently heavily pregnant , asked simply if there was ‘ any other way to generate electricity that can , by its very nature , potentially reach inside to my foetus and contaminate it before it is born ’ . |