Example sentences of "[art] [noun] be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Psychologically , as the response is always rewarded when this crucial element is present , the response becomes more and more strongly connected with the relevant cue and extinguished as a response to other cues .
2 The rest of the tent is then laid and pegged out .
3 The opportunity was not lost and Johnson eventually captured the title he sought .
4 In many of the higher insects the pleuron is usually connected and fused with the tergum by downward prolongations of the prescutum and postnotum .
5 but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract
6 The seamen are therefore determined that they will have nothing to do with Germans of any description until the Germans have made full reparation for the cruel murders committed and the lives lost on the high seas from submarine action " .
7 The strips are simply nailed and glued to the roof , allowing for an overlap between layers .
8 The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over .
9 Spoon the sauce onto serving plates , so that the base is completely covered and stand a pear in the middle .
10 If left too long in a situation of abandonment , the split is not healed and comes to be used as a predominant defence , as it did with Clive and Rose Greenacre .
11 The ridge is quickly gained and on this peach of a day was absolutely magnificent , with the hills retaining sizeable patches of spring snow that sparkled in the hazy sunshine .
12 The change was widely reported as bringing into question the government 's commitment to the phasing out of nuclear energy by 2010 , as approved in a 1980 referendum [ see pp. 30335 ; 30994 ; 34831 ] .
13 The change was certainly marked and immediate in our office ; we were getting literally hundreds of phone calls a day . ’
14 This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event .
15 Indeed , for all cases where the to infinitive evokes " subsequent potentiality " the support is necessarily seen or implied to be situated in time prior to the event .
16 It is ‘ only rarely ’ , he says , that the accounts are fully completed when the auditors arrive .
17 The programmes are now registered as providing learning support for NVQs at level 3 ( the Certificate ) and level 4 ( the Diploma ) which means that any students paying their own fees should not be required to pay the 25 per centincome tax component on either the HCIMA assessment fees or the college fees .
18 The trial was also explained and consent was sought from the head of each compound and the parents or guardians of each eligible child before enrolment .
19 I suppose when they string together every possible Celtic cliché , you can only sit back and submit knowing that the stereotype is so overplayed as to be utterly ridiculous , yet at the same time resenting the perpetration of it .
20 For the simple reason that , if they were to be considered as arbitrators , there would be at least a danger that one party or the other might be able to require a case to be stated before a court of law , by which means it could be suggested that the award was not binding because of some error in it .
21 For first attempts the board is best positioned as above , but with practice the board can be manoeuvred once the rig is out of the water .
22 The Board is simply saying that its own policies will also be explicitly only for companies .
23 The board is there to ensure that the share-holders achieve the best return on their investment .
24 Some of these designs can be adjusted when the sack is fully loaded and being worn — others have to be adjusted beforehand .
25 In the cinema foyer the two old ladies who run the cinema are both dispensing and receiving abuse from all sides as to the quality of the night 's offerings , Storm Over the Nile and Voodoo Woman .
26 Reactions were electrophoresed through a 10% denaturing gel and the gel was subsequently dried and autoradiographed using standard procedures ( 12 ) .
27 ( B ) The free and complexed DNA fragment populations were separated by electrophoresis through a 5% native polyacrylamide gel ( 8 ) ; the gel was then immersed and equilibrated into a buffer-containing plastic tray , and the retarded ( SC = specific complex , NSC = non-specific complex ) and unretarded ( F = free ) DNA species were exposed in situ to mild modification with DMS ( representative methylations are indicated by the black arrowheads ) .
28 Some of the old skill is perpetuated on the island as a cottage industry but the patterns are now used and often machine-knitted by mainland manufacturers .
29 A baby conceived by in vitro fertilization in this way is as genetically related to its father and mother as a normally conceived baby , and the technique is widely accepted as ethically acceptable , although not , of course , by the Catholic Church , for the reasons that have been mentioned above .
30 For this is not an isolated incidence of confusion , though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised .
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