Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps no one can understand anyone : each blackbird believes that he has put into his whistle a meaning fundamental for him , but only he understands it ; the other gives him a reply that had no connection with what he said ; it is a dialogue between the deaf , a conversation without head or tail . |
| 2 | Schank [ 1972 ] drew up a list of 12-15 primitive actions that he claims underlie the meaning of all active verbs , of which a number are listed below : |
| 3 | The next characteristic of a switching-off organization is that there are far too many people and far too many layers so that each employee feels that he has little or no headroom . |
| 4 | The truth is that Labour knows that it has no creditable system with which to replace our proposals . |
| 5 | A perusal of the French text shows that it uses the phrase ‘ exigences importantes ’ , which appears to bear a family resemblance to the phrase ‘ exigences impératives ’ used in the french texts of judgments following the Cassis de Dijon case law and rendered into English as ‘ mandatory requirements ’ . |
| 6 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 7 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 8 | If the pulsar is a rejuvenated old neutron star , the large magnetic field suggests that there has been little or no decay from its original value , lending support to work suggesting the field decay may not occur , in contrast to other evidence . |
| 9 | Left FIGURE 7 The gliding flight of gulls — the further wing leads as it approaches ( A , B and C ) and trails as it departs ( D ) . |
| 10 | This process continues until everyone has a name on his or her back , the organizer putting a name on the birthday child 's back , who will have started the game . |
| 11 | Flying the flag : The Fijian team celebrates as it retains its grip on the Cup for the third year in succession : ( l-r ) Fijian supporter , Waisale Serevi , Tomasi Cama , Vesito Rauluni ( captain ) , Mesake Rasari , Viliami Rauluni , Filimone Seru , Ratu Sakeasi ( front ) . |
| 12 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman recognises that there has been a major expansion . |
| 13 | This exhibition shows that he has other strings to his artistic bow . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 15 | The British government says that it finances nine projects , including a recently opened satellite station in Nepal , and that it sees no necessity for a separate fund . |
| 16 | Forget the doubters : British Coal knows that it has only one way to go , and that is forward . |
| 17 | This model proposes that there exists a set of auditory word detectors , closely analogous to the visual word detectors in the Johnston-McClelland model . |
| 18 | And at least Micky 's deaf-aid thing guarantees that he does actually say the lines you wrote . ’ |
| 19 | A form of writing that deals with the historical evolution of the landscape can be recommended to anyone interested in understanding why the English landscape looks as it does . |
| 20 | Following reason in this way shows that one knows how to go on ( to use again Wittgenstein 's phrase ) within the discipline . |
| 21 | La Fontaine , in her review of studies of British kinship suggests that there seems to be ‘ a preference for particular siblings rather than a general solidarity with brothers and sisters ’ ( La Fontaine , 1985 , p. 54 ) . |
| 22 | One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life . |
| 23 | Another romantic element is introduced intermittently through the attachment of the aristocratic Alison Westwater and humble Jaikie Galt , a rugby player of international repute whose lighthearted approach to Evallonian politics deepens as he listens to Alison 's analysis of the situation . |
| 24 | It is , in fact , in twelfth-century Latin comoediae and some thirteenth-century Old French works that one finds the most convincing examples of works composed for performance of this kind ; in the present context it is particularly interesting to note that Edmond Faral identified as Anglo-Latin comedies the two extant twelfth-century comoediae written entirely in dialogue . |
| 25 | And the couple can look forward to more proud moments in the future , Antony their youngest son says when he grows up he wants to be soldier and be just as brave as his dad . |
| 26 | But then the second girl wails that she has laughed away her whizz powder . |
| 27 | The overall leader knows that he has little to gain and much to lose . |
| 28 | A similar picture emerges if one compares the proportion of sub-degree to degree courses . |
| 29 | Individual deterrence occurs when someone commits a crime , is punished for it , and finds the punishment so unpleasant or frightening that the offence is never repeated for fear of more of the same or worse . |
| 30 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |