Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while . |
| 32 | Choosing a savings account to match your individual needs can raise a number of questions . |
| 33 | Just as fishkeepers tend to start their hobby with ‘ easy ’ livebearers , so the herpetologist invariably begins with an inexpensive animal that he is told will be easy to keep . |
| 34 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 35 | For , having barely embarked on their first Industrial Revolution , many Third World nations tend to regard their tribal peoples with the same antagonism which caused the " maturer " nations to extinguish theirs just a century earlier . |
| 36 | ’ Be it observed , therefore , ’ Seely concluded his diagnosis , ‘ that in these three vital matters , which taken together create an emergency greater than any through which this country has passed for centuries , no solution can be found unless all three parties combine to solve them . ’ |
| 37 | Because the mood in Japan is changing , and candidates want to identify themselves with reform . |
| 38 | A cynic will remember that research into the opinion-forming powers of newspapers has tended to conclude that readers expect to have their existing views confirmed . |
| 39 | But the conservatives , fearing a Mitterrand manoeuvre to split them , have denounced the proposed reforms as an attempt to distract voters . |
| 40 | He explained : ‘ I 'm enjoying watching Villa play and it will be interesting to see how many fans want to show their appreciation . ’ |
| 41 | The process is two-way ; some users who have used 1981 data want to continue their research with 1991 ; other users start with 1991 and decide they would like to see how the situation has changed in the last ten years . |
| 42 | I managed to limit myself ( for the moment ! ) to one each of S. flavitaeniatus , S. decorus and S. brichardi to keep my existing S. eupterus company . |
| 43 | And if any readers want to reveal their previous loves , send us the details at the above address , with your daytime telephone number . |
| 44 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 45 | If any readers want to share their interest in these models hen please do write as once again this is a little-known subject ; perhaps these models are just too big for the average collector to handle ? |
| 46 | So suppose an adult sniffs glue making himself very ill and subsequently sues the glue manufacturer . |
| 47 | Then I would tell myself such ideas were unreasonable : why would an American half-poet want to betray me to any government agency ? |
| 48 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 49 | When both parties cease to speak you have hit deadlock — wrong ! |
| 50 | Professor Usher concludes his criticisms of the defence counsel 's actions with this damning comment : |
| 51 | Er well we always start from what does the operator of this aircraft want to use it for . |
| 52 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 53 | But whatever their position is by Wednesday , supporters hope to see them put their disappointments behind them for the Aldershot Senior Cup final . |
| 54 | Normally you would n't be seen dead doing a knees bend keeping your back straight , but if you 're getting something off the bottom shelf you wo n't look ridiculous at all . |
| 55 | He would n't be surprised if it was a KGB plot to uncover his sleepers , to trace Western intelligence in the Soviet Union . |
| 56 | Er but I do n't believe it 's worthwhile doing manual on the cases , they will get picked up in the next data support run which runs two weeks afterwards , that 'll be erm beginning of May . |
| 57 | That deal fell through along with broad banking reform , but insurers hope to see their aims fulfilled in another way . |
| 58 | Between the 10th and 14th aspects conspire to bring you on line with your destiny . |
| 59 | I squashed into the middle of 50,000 betting-mad horse fans at the immaculate Shatin racecourse to witness their mania for gambling , and found the atmosphere more infectious than on the terraces of Aintree or Ascot . |
| 60 | Manufacturers seem to think we 'll put up with any old crap ! |