Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , you should make it clear by words or conduct that you are exercising your right to treat yourself as having been dismissed . |
| 2 | Like , you could n't have pianos or sax because it was n't hardcore . ’ |
| 3 | A man is tonight being questioned by police in connection with a shotgun murder that occurred while he was on the run from prison . |
| 4 | I hoped that in the Queen 's Speech the Government would set out a programme that showed that we were prepared to play our part in removing the scourge of poverty , of short life and of environmental destruction which is the lot of so many people in the world . |
| 5 | It is an inborn fear that develops when they are only a few months old , regardless of whether they have ever met an owl . |
| 6 | It 's best to bring an early morning , mid-flow sample with you , because the hormones that show that you are pregnant are most concentrated in your early-morning urine . |
| 7 | He avoids mentioning Home Office research that suggests that there is a relationship between deprivation and crime . |
| 8 | Why the hell should I look at the roof except to see if there was a satellite TV dish . |
| 9 | HE IS EXACTLY what the media find hard to deal with : a mixture of self-containment and outspokenness that demands that it be taken , or left , for what it is . |
| 10 | British Sources wore a truculent glower and insisted that we were ‘ true Europeans ’ . |
| 11 | Monzer al-Kassar and Rifat Assad were two of the names that cropped up most frequently in the cascade of raw intelligence from informants and intercepts that he was analysing for NARCOG and back-channelling to Donleavy . |
| 12 | ( i ) Derive the equation of motion for the ring and show that it is independent of the cross-section of the wire . |
| 13 | Well give Jerry a ring and see if there 's anything to offer Yeah yeah . |
| 14 | And Andrew only uses pesticides and herbicides when there 's no alternative.Even then he uses minimum concentrations of chemical to avoid residues on the fruit or in the soil : |
| 15 | ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it . |
| 16 | The court said that a failure to pay a debt was not theft and held that there was no obligation to retain and deal with the money in a particular way . |
| 17 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |
| 18 | SIR — We share Coulter 's concerns ( May 8 , p 1185 ) about the general lack of objective assessment of menstrual blood loss and think that there are two reasons behind this . |
| 19 | Harriet glanced at Meredith and saw that she was looking at the picture . |
| 20 | He lifted his eyes and saw that he was almost at the top . |
| 21 | Close your eyes and imagine that you are centred within a sphere of white light which also permeates your body . |
| 22 | I only had to shut my eyes and inhale and I was back in Russia . |
| 23 | Could I appeal to running shoe manufacturers to open their eyes and realise that they are missing out on a valuable section of the market ? |
| 24 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 25 | Under an amnesty agreed by the National Assembly on Feb. 7 by 76 votes to four , the government on Feb. 9 freed 1,151 contras and 39 former National Guards and asserted that there were no political prisoners . |
| 26 | PLM leader John Osborne , who was seeking a fourth consecutive term as Chief Minister , lost his seat and stated that he was retiring from politics . |
| 27 | Twelve weeks over the time that is allotted in the programme and to do that we 're gon na have to produce the twice the rate that we 're doing now . |
| 28 | Naturally you will not want to make any commitment until you are certain that there is no chance he will change his mind and discover that it is after all you he loves . |
| 29 | Any judgment on the preferability of fixed or floating exchange rates must take into account these considerations and recognize that it is a matter of balancing advantages against disadvantages . |
| 30 | ‘ Have you ever seen a woman yoked to her husband pulling a plough because they ca n't afford an ox or a horse , while their baby lies under some hedgerow , wrapped in rags , sucking a crust and whining because it is too weak with hunger to cry ? ’ |