Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Anne is teaching me French and she says my accent is really very good . " |
| 2 | An emphasis upon such occasions , taken in conjunction with the opinion surveys , could lead to the son of conclusion proposed by Shils and Young ( 1975 ) : the British people love their monarchy and this love is expressed during coronations and suchlike ceremonies with an intensity which borders on the mystical and which strengthens the sense of national community . |
| 3 | Whether the less common B II state actually exists in solution is not clear and it has been suggested that its appearance may be linked to crystal packing effects ( 3–5 ) . |
| 4 | Luke is most anxious to make this clear and he uses the Greek word parthenos twice in the opening sentence . |
| 5 | But many of the plastics being used in the linings are relatively untried and nobody has any real idea how long they will last . |
| 6 | One aim is to make the familiar look unfamiliar and he says it was only when he referred back to his photographs after completing many of his drawings that he realised what he had missed . |
| 7 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 8 | Just in , just in passing on this committee I 'm assured will be concerned of the apparent difficulties between er the Highways er and the organization of Suffolk and that in Norfolk , erm and we shall be I think er wishing to look at that er to see what 's going astray and something appears to me to be not quite right in the relationship and er , erm I think it 's important that er adjoining Highway Authorities do in fact get on |
| 9 | Genuine communication is participatory , liberating and it creates community . |
| 10 | Genuine communication is participatory , liberating and it creates community . |
| 11 | It has beautiful purple and green plumage , but its voice is strident and it threshes its wings frantically overhead when in the presence of any other murder victim , crying ‘ Ishkoonee ! ’ |
| 12 | Beejay is kind and calm and he takes care of me . |
| 13 | We conducted a two year study to assess the effectiveness of the family smoking education and smoking and me projects in influencing smoking behaviour . |
| 14 | His wife cares for him at home but this is very demanding and she finds that she needs regular breaks . |
| 15 | I think it was very interesting and it warns you not to talk to strangers . |
| 16 | The idea that there is something of a lag between terminology and social system is interesting and there does indeed sometimes seem to be this type of gap . |
| 17 | He 's recently widowed and he 's got four children . |
| 18 | The coat colour can be all white , blue , blue roan or pied and it owes this variety to the Shorthorn ; the ‘ blue ’ is the equivalent of the Shorthorn 's roan . |
| 19 | Xu 's ingredients are fresh and he uses just one board |
| 20 | He thought it was funny and who needs a Mary Poppins LP , a Beatles poster , a sequinned belt , anyway . |
| 21 | from a distance it looks more black than brown and it has a most interesting tail which , when closed , looks like one of the flippers scuba divers wear . |
| 22 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ The party needs a period of serious reflection about what went wrong and what needs to be done . |
| 24 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 25 | ‘ We know we 've done nothing wrong and it does not bother us in the least what the referees ’ report says . ’ |
| 26 | I mean it 's just you know that gone wrong and it does n't |
| 27 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 28 | Before : Rebecca 's long , one-length hair is quite coarse and she feels it looks dull and boring . |
| 29 | Despite attempts to recommend local materials , the per capita costs of the scheme were also high and there seems to have been a certain ‘ willing suspension of disbelief ’ about the local capacity to provide replacements for all the goodies originally supplied by UNICEF . |
| 30 | His institute 's estimates of the country 's current economic level relative to Western Europe are high and he concludes from this that economic reform can be based largely on domestic resources . |