Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comments from several solicitors , from both large and small practice firms , suggest that there remain on the rota solicitors who have over-valued or mis-stated their criminal experience : |
| 2 | No matter what benefits the salesperson discusses , the buyer may be reluctant to change from his present supplier or change his present model because to do so may give rise to unforeseen problems — delivery may be unpredictable or the new model may be unreliable . |
| 3 | People desperate to conceive can sometimes enter fertility programmes without enough space to query how far they are prepared to go , to resolve any differences between the partners , or to mourn their personal loss in not being able to produce a child naturally . |
| 4 | Working in a situation which encourages general contact with the public or involves their active participation creates advantages for both the artist and his audience . |
| 5 | But the home government always resisted this simple but dangerous solution , passing up chances to expand territorially if that meant the helots could stab them in the back — or eat them raw . |
| 6 | But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries . |
| 7 | A professional company , in favourable circumstances , can own or lease its immediate means of production , and deal relatively directly with its public , while its technical means are relatively simple . |
| 8 | Having reached the end of the second sentence , we have to decide whether to repeat what we have already written , or introduce something new as a contrast or relief . |
| 9 | Oddly enough I did n't set out from wherever I come from to trespass on your island , or to lose my wretched memory . |
| 10 | One of the major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 11 | The experience would not dent her confidence or make her fearful about driving alone , she said . |
| 12 | He , of course , was very anxious that no one should disobey her , or make her angry . |
| 13 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 14 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 15 | ‘ For your own sake you should get rid of him — or make him live out , ’ Frank said quietly after a period of silence . |
| 16 | Or make their extra money . |
| 17 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 18 | Your dad 's always tried never to tell you lies , or stories that would scare you or make you superstitious , but — ’ |
| 19 | If the Labour Party wished to participate in government it would have to shed its Marxist-Trotskyist wing or make it impotent . " |
| 20 | You work lightly so as not to draw in the knitting or make it lumpy and you could also undo lightly worked stitches more easily . |
| 21 | It made no reference to the possibility that schools for the less able might depress expectations and discourage the pupils in them , or make it difficult for such schools to attract an adequate share of available resources . |
| 22 | It is useful for those of us who worry that hearing other opinions and listening to other people may weaken our case , or make it difficult for us to concentrate on our own determined agenda . |
| 23 | They could feel angry , embarrassed and even guilty because of the comments of over-anxious parents who keep hinting about their longing for grandchildren , or make it clear that they think there should be no more . |
| 24 | Talk about safer sex with your partner , or make it clear that it is safer sex you want by your actions . |
| 25 | Not the bottle that guarantees to turn your grey hair black or make your bald pate sprout again , but something else . |
| 26 | Designer smells , which can take the anxiety out of a trip to the dentist or make your synthetic upholstery smell like real leather , are now being released on an unsuspecting public . |
| 27 | The police took the immediate neighbours into their confidence out of sheer necessity , hoping one of them might have seen or heard something significant the previous Tuesday ; but none had . |
| 28 | Anybody who had seen or heard anything suspicious in the neighbourhood of her home on Tuesday 1st September was urged to contact Thames Valley CID . |
| 29 | I just wanted to alert the staff in case any of you have seen or heard anything suspicious . ’ |
| 30 | You may not be putting together the salad on your plate or cooking your main course in the kitchen , but you do have a certain control over what goes onto your plate . |