Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 2 | If Mr Lightbown is set on young and weak Tory miscreants , they either crumble or he persists until they do . |
| 3 | With regard to the right hon. Gentleman 's earlier remarks about opting in , I suggest that he discusses that matter with his right hon. Friends who would have signed the treaty in full without waiting to see what the economic conditions were at a later stage . |
| 4 | I suggest that she does as I have done , pops down to her local computer shop and purchases an anti-static bracelet and strap . |
| 5 | The inspector adds that he thinks that ’ the Force was in a parlous state in 1990 . ’ |
| 6 | Whilst what is meant by ‘ organised backlash ’ is never made clear , it is probably not unreasonable to infer that it implies that it occurred after 1968 and within a limited historical period . |
| 7 | Some such philosophers say that one notices that something is white through noticing its resemblance to other things . |
| 8 | Also , I 'd like to come over all clichéd now and say that it seems that you do get what you pay for , and while the Hohner is a very capable bass I would personally bypass this mid-price level and put the money to something else . |
| 9 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
| 10 | if he believes that a criminal offence has been committed and he believes that the officer ought to be charged . |
| 11 | I think the most important thing is to make clear , I 'm hoping to make clear somewhere that next year this council will have a members allowance budget which is one and a half percent more than this year , at the maximum , and it may not even have that I 'm not certain that we 've agreed that with the policy committee , I do n't know if anybody knows if we have |
| 12 | Do you know if she minds or was she . |
| 13 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |
| 14 | Leave the chocolate to stand until it cools and the mixture thickens slightly . |
| 15 | There is , however , a difference between imposing liability where the company has collapsed and it emerges that a director has been in total dereliction of duty or something close to it , and using the law to promote managerial dynamism . |
| 16 | So in fact I 've always concentrated and what people have wanted is some specific direction namely wills dying and what happens if you have n't done something about it . |
| 17 | Dependence often develops , but need not necessarily be discouraged unless it persists when the patient has managed to overcome most or all of his problems . |
| 18 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 19 | It matters because it means that a trust can be construed even from words which look rather unpromising . |
| 20 | " I do n't know whether it does or not , " said Nenna . |
| 21 | ‘ I really do n't know whether it does or not … |
| 22 | I do n't know whether she does or not . |
| 23 | I mean , I say , still again , I do n't know whether she swims or she does n't but nevertheless it 's an invitation out in n it ? |
| 24 | 11% do n't know whether he has or not , and 4% do n't want to know . |
| 25 | However , when searching for a particular route from the ‘ z ’ , a linear search must be employed to establish whether it exists or not , which slows down the search time compared with the 26-way tree where all 26 routes are allocated . |
| 26 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 27 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 28 | What he is mainly denying when he denies that there are final causes in nature is that the existence of each individual sort of thing is to be explained by its serving some cause beyond it , in particular some kind of human interest . |
| 29 | You have to be careful , you ca n't actually say that Nick represents this or that , you have to say that George thinks that he represents and sort of a kind of genetic engineering which would turn out a generation of perfect people , alright . |
| 30 | Jackie and Jaafer insist that it stands and are prepared to take the company on in court . |