Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [vb base] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials at Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry now say that they 're tired of quibbling over market share figures with the US , and say they do n't intend to allow the US to establish a new market share goal in upcoming semiconductor talks , which will begin in Hawaii next Tuesday , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ Because there was a controversy over the old 20% figure , which was taken as some form of commitment , we have no intention of referring to any new numbers ’ Koji Matsui , deputy director of the industrial electronics division of the Ministry declared . |
| 2 | If you are going to use computer generated artwork in your publications , be they business graphs , drawings or logos then ensure that they are created with a drawing package not a painting one . |
| 3 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 4 | Did you care to touch upon the fact that fish rarely flourish once they are removed from water ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ As a teacher I have observed that children truly learn when they try to solve questions which they themselves ask . |
| 6 | Although ministers now stress that they recognise the importance of backing basic research without strings , the suspicion still lingers that decisions are shifting towards short-term payoffs . ’ |
| 7 | Although ministers now stress that they recognize the importance of backing basic research without strings , the suspicion still lingers that decisions are shifting towards short-term payoffs . |
| 8 | Business and pleasure only mix when you 're wielding the cocktail shaker . |
| 9 | Encourage the visitors to ask questions , if they are newcomers to the neighbourhood conversation about whether they have settled in and met the neighbours and general chat about shops , buses , doctors and dentists again show that you are human and interested in them as people . |
| 10 | First , I was a gypsy and gypsies never forget and they never forgive . |
| 11 | Duncan and Goodwin thus claim that it is the localized heterogeneity of economic , social and cultural relations , and the plurality of influences which result , that is crucial to the distinctiveness of the local state , and to an understanding of the myriad forms of local politics which are produced . |
| 12 | Piaget and Klein also show that it is only through the intrinsically dynamic relationship between the infant and its environment that the subject is able to become itself . |
| 13 | Er , what they do , every year they switch identities e , Jessica pretends to be Elizabeth , and Elizabeth pretends to be Jessica but , this year they do n't do that cos tha all their friends like know and , this year cos their teachers and things still think that they 're erm so , they swapped identities they like , give detention and things to the wrong people and stuff like that . |
| 14 | We seem to be working really well as a unit and things really gel when we write together . |
| 15 | Ivanisevic and Co. naturally argue that it is unfair to alter the regulations as it would interfere with the natural development of the game . |
| 16 | His extravagant action , his grace , his poise and his enthusiasm combine to produce a perfect jumping machine , and people soon realise that they are watching something exceptional . |
| 17 | It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year . |
| 18 | The colours of garments printed in books and magazines probably influence whether we like the garment or not . |
| 19 | The tree is also supposed to represent the growing maiden acquiring womanly sense or wisdom , and Ndembu sometimes say that she ‘ drinks sense as a baby drinks milk ’ . |
| 20 | And yet with each succeeding year both my guilt and inferiority somehow diminish as I witness the old country ways vanish . |
| 21 | Extensive calcareous flowstone and stalactite deposits are developed at spring discharge points in fractured bituminous limestones and combustion-metamorphosed marbles : the ground water is saturated with calcium hydroxide , with the consequence that calcite and aragonite rapidly precipitate when it comes into contact with atmospheric carbon dioxide . |
| 22 | But if politicians also believe that they are being fed distorted and incorrect information by budget-maximizing bureaucrats and that the resources they vote to the administration will be used inefficiently , they will reduce their allocations . |
| 23 | There has been a dramatic increase in knee injuries since the '70s , when it was more common to break a leg ; serious knee sprains , probably involving torn ligaments , are at least ten times more likely than broken legs — mainly because bindings now release when they are meant to and boots give greater support to the lower leg and ankle . |
| 24 | James Bond fantasies , you know , when things just appear and you 're just sophisticated and your hair 's in a flip and you look great and you get on your private jet . |
| 25 | This suggests that even when writers explicitly indicate that they are correcting themselves , as for example in [ 34 ] , the original formulation contributes to the overall relevance of the text . |
| 26 | This is an activity that does n't bear repeating often as sponsors sometimes discover that they have pledged themselves to give much more than they had intended and that , unlike the purchase of a raffle ticket or a ticket to a school event , there is no chance of personal gain . |