Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country was spared the follies that all too often accompany the first six months of a new government while tyro-ministers clamber up what the Civil Service likes to call their learning-curve . |
| 2 | Katze had never seen this type of explosive , but it did n't take a scientific genius to work out what the thing was . |
| 3 | It 's your moral and legal responsibility to find out what the law says and to comply with the law . |
| 4 | Now the Pentagon has begun a serious attempt to find out what the future shape of American defence should be , and whether the new shape will in fact save money . |
| 5 | Almost every newspaper , national newspaper and local free papers , will have er their horoscopes , television and radio chat shows , again , will have their their resident astrologers telephone call lines to find out what the stars have in store for you , an unprecedented interest in the , in the various branches of the occult . |
| 6 | The professors with Middle-European names spend their lives working out what the great inner secret is , that thing you feel at the first glance . |
| 7 | S&N 's executive committee has recently approved an initiative to find out what the situation is and is preparing an attitude survey to identify what managers are really thinking and what the problems are perceived to be . |
| 8 | This may conflict with the chronological age , and the person may switch backwards and forwards from one age to another , so it requires alertness to work out what the person is feeling . |
| 9 | It should be possible with a reasonable amount of investigation to find out who the local trade union officials are and who it is who is responsible for the placement of work . |
| 10 | But Labour , too , was disappointing in its reluctance to sketch out what an alternative science policy might look like . |
| 11 | Larger dis large test statistics mean rejection of the goal right erm there 's no simple rule of thumb with kie squared you just have to look at the erm actual tables to find out what the critical values are . |
| 12 | Some large companies , unsure if they are rewarding their top people adequately , have been known to commission firms to find out what the competition are paying ; who better to ask to undertake this research than the headhunters themselves ? |
| 13 | Sentimental producers may like to think that these programmes give the politicians a chance to find out what the people are thinking , and vice versa . |
| 14 | Guttersnipe could not summon up the enthusiasm required to wade through sufficient of this turgid stuff to find out what the ‘ bizarre test ’ was but suspects it might have something to do with explaining the meaning of the words ‘ Do-be-do-be-do ’ at the end of his popular tune ‘ Strangers In The Night ’ . |
| 15 | It is no defence for the officer to say he does not know and can not with reasonable diligence find out who the driver was . |
| 16 | Mr Cheney questioned whether the United States was pursuing the plan ‘ because it 's the best military solution … or are we doing it because there was an announcement of a policy and now everybody 's scurrying around trying to put together a policy to carry out what the president stated as an objective . ’ |
| 17 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 18 | Southwestern Bell Corp and the Panasonic unit of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd have developed a new personal communication service but we all have to wait until next Tuesday or Wednesday to find out what the service will be . |
| 19 | For this purpose , the designer is too familiar with the product and he rarely takes the trouble to find out what the user really needs to know . |
| 20 | A muttering audience coughs and squints through the smoke to find out what the hell 's going on , and only a mild smattering of , ‘ Oh , it 's her ’ applause greets me as I stagger out of the smoke towards Jim . |
| 21 | As the British media hung on his every word , Ally announced to the world that Willie Johnson would ‘ terrorise their full backs ’ , and the rest would be academic . |
| 22 | Ho hung on his every word , looking terrified as Jack 's fantastic story unfolded . |
| 23 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 24 | Some creditors will demand extra protection , such as restrictive covenants attached to their loans laying down what the firm must do if things go wrong . |
| 25 | I mean some people say it diffidence some people say it 's considerate so you have to then try and go a bit further beyond the actual differences to find out what the reasons behind them are . |
| 26 | I went along to Tom 's yard to find out what the horse dentist actually does , how often he should attend and how the owner can tell if his horse 's teeth need further attention . |
| 27 | Blinking politely at the assembled masses hanging on his every syllable , the poodle-headed astronomer and Friend Of Freddie swiftly got to the point of his keynote address to the CMJ Music Marathon . |
| 28 | But when he spoke , he had his audience hanging on his every word as he described in the most modest terms , what was clearly an arduous adventure , expertly carried out . |
| 29 | I shall not necessarily take the hon. Gentleman 's figures on the disabled as being correct , but I shall certainly make inquiries of British Coal to find out what the position is , and I shall write to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 30 | Archbishop Tutu said in a statement that he had asked to see the President in an effort to spell out what the white minority government must do to resolve South Africa 's political crisis . |