Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [coord] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they could only wait and listen for any scrap of news . |
| 2 | It may have brought much comfort ( or much discomfort ! ) , it may have been continuing or a once only meeting but nevertheless was important in that another Christian was alongside to listen and share in such a way that you travelled on encouraged . |
| 3 | If you want to colour the planets , do n't all go and stand round that picture , go and have a look come back and colour them . |
| 4 | It can be three point seven eight , seven nine eight , or you can just multiply and divide by ten for how many ten pounds there are . |
| 5 | And therefore I believe it 's worth making the effort to use non-sexist language , because no one notices , and using sexist language may just offend and put off one or two . |
| 6 | Yes , we do need to fight and I did make reference that we need not just to organize and cooperate with other public sector workers , but we actually need to build a campaign with the users of the services . |
| 7 | What qualities do you most like and dislike in other people ? |
| 8 | Congress , if as a trade union , and if as a labour movement , you stop going forward in campaigning , there 's only one thing that happens you start to go backwards , because this government will always try and take from working class people , all the time . |
| 9 | I do n't usually come and talk like this , do I ? |
| 10 | Not all the decisions in a given period can be carried out , since many of them may erroneously anticipate and depend upon other decisions which are in fact not being made . |
| 11 | The important feature of both initiatives was that people who normally work independently from each other and who shared a common vision and interest , were brought together also to share and benefit from each other 's expertise . |
| 12 | In scientific visualisation applications , researchers can both model and step inside complex molecular structures . |
| 13 | The engineer with the irreverent sense of humour who would n't give houseroom to a defunct machine but who would carefully dismantle and put by any parts that might be of use later on would — this time next year — be helping to nourish the rose beds . |
| 14 | The cymbal is indestructible , except by nearly-silence which skulks in a corner unable to really move or communicate with other potential nearly-silences . |
| 15 | There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve . |
| 16 | Then I thought I might as well go and look for Sabine . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members . |
| 18 | Leavis always laid claim to the subtler view of controversy , but his doctrine was always easily open , as he knew , to cruder interpretations , and the fire-and-brimstone of his prose sometimes made it hard to interpret or understand in any other way . |
| 19 | The accord exists because all promises of a ‘ happy ’ after-life are related to ‘ happiness ’ with the meaning it has acquired in the worldly sense , for indeed , it can mean nothing else , as human beings can neither experience nor envisage with any real conviction , any other kind of happiness . |
| 20 | The five foolish virgins with no oil for the lamps could neither buy nor borrow from those who had supplied their own lamps . |
| 21 | You must either study and cater for existing markets or create hew markets for your own special products . |
| 22 | It implies that , since subjects can not completely understand or communicate with each other , or even themselves , the full ‘ representation ’ of women by female subjects , or of particular , female-identified subject areas , methods or theories , is impossible . |
| 23 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 24 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 25 | You will either belong and adhere to this school of thought , or you will be outraged at the very suggestion . |
| 26 | The reservations manager will either write or telephone near that date to verify the reservation , as a ‘ no show ’ means a loss of business to the hotel . |
| 27 | I have already identified more than one type of contradiction ; those that can exist between one 's fantasies and what one would actually do or enjoy in real life , and those that can exist between one 's understanding of the oppressive nature of some discourse or practice and one 's continuing investment of desire and finding of pleasure in it . |
| 28 | Did Kuwaitis actually fight or die in that war ? |