Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment . |
| 2 | It is the story that has to be meaningful to , and has to have significance for , the individual reader . |
| 3 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 4 | Its digital nature is not an incidental fact that happens to be true of genetic information technology . |
| 5 | They may therefore be found within many other text types contained with the LOB , and used in a manner that tends to be consistent across each domain . |
| 6 | It is the complexity of the decoding and responding that seems to be under-represented in this model , as can be seen in the communication model if the following is substituted : |
| 7 | This structure extends over 0.3° ( 45pc ) but is part of an even more extensive 1° ( 140pc ) -shaped lobe that appears to be perpendicular to the plane and is reminiscent of the prominences and flares that protrude from the surface of the Sun ( Fig. 6 a ) . |
| 8 | Far from being dogmatic , our objective is to achieve the best possible delivery of health care through a health service that continues to be free at the point of delivery to patients . |
| 9 | It combines the transgression of narrative convention that begins to be manifest in The Sycamore Tree with a variation on the technique of recontextualization through linguistic slips employed in The Languages of Love . |
| 10 | The moral of this tale — do n't buy a machine that claims to be upgradeable without checking the cost of upgrades . |
| 11 | Right , and there 's various pros and cons to be aware of . |
| 12 | I shall return later to the possibility of seeing the inaccessibility in terms of a limitation of access between levels ( rather than between modules ) , but for the moment we can redescribe this retraining activity as the ability of the subject , at a given level ( the uppermost , of intending to walk , in this case ) , to retranslate an activity into a lower level , in such a way that the translation later becomes compiled ( in terms of the earlier distinction between compilation and translation ) and ceases to be accessible from the ‘ higher level ’ . |
| 13 | She 's full of smiles , full of energy and seems to be full of life . |
| 14 | Clearly ( as the employers were quick to point out ) keyboarding had nothing in common with what a man had learnt during his apprenticeship : it meant acquiring a new skill , But the men 's reluctance is still Surprising , and seems to be unique to Edinburgh . |
| 15 | The automatic recognition of handwriting is necessary as a natural mode of communication with computers , and appears to be appropriate for a number of applications . |
| 16 | This is confined to the free margin of the front row of basal epidermal cells , and appears to be continuous from cell to cell ( presumably through adherens junctions ) . |
| 17 | The brainchild of the Central Scotland Patients ' Association , the group is recruiting members and hopes to be operational by the end of the year at the latest . |
| 18 | Most importantly , Johnnies remains committed to South Africa and continues to be proactive in its pursuit of equality for all in a democratic multi-party society . |
| 19 | Thus he acknowledges the source of his prosperity , and claims to be unworthy of the deliverance for which he pleads . |
| 20 | He 's a star here , but wants to be top of the bill at the Westminster palace of varieties . |
| 21 | ENGLAND batsman Robin Smith is to have a shoulder operation but hopes to be fit for the new domestic season . |
| 22 | Vice-captain Gary Bennett , who limped off against West Ham with a thigh injury , will miss Saturday 's game at Southend but hopes to be fit for the FA Cup replay . |
| 23 | Full-back Terry Phelan was injured in training but expects to be fit for the match . |
| 24 | The £5 billion UK packaging industry consumes six per cent of total energy but claims to be responsible for just one per cent of waste . |
| 25 | He considered the role of the Council members as delegates to be suggestive of agency , but concluded that agency was defeated by the literal wording of the contracts which were entered into by the third parties in the following terms : |