Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Do you know if she minds or was she . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Leave the chocolate to stand until it cools and the mixture thickens slightly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It matters because it means that a trust can be construed even from words which look rather unpromising . |
| 8 | " I do n't know whether it does or not , " said Nenna . |
| 9 | ‘ I really do n't know whether it does or not … |
| 10 | I do n't know whether she does or not . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 11% do n't know whether he has or not , and 4% do n't want to know . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | No that 's what happens if it happens but how would you avoid it ? |
| 18 | There are two different ways in which the existence of an alternative remedy can affect the availability of judicial remedies : it might entirely preclude the award of a judicial remedy , or it might give the court a discretion to refuse a ( discretionary ) remedy if it thinks that the alternative remedy is adequate . |
| 19 | And what will you do if it rains and you have n't got your anorak on the deck , Dick ? |
| 20 | That the view of the judge 's role as declaratory is inadequate can be seen if one considers that the reason many cases come to court ( which are only a minority of the cases that are actually started ) is because there is genuine doubt as to what the law is . |
| 21 | Oh , just wait till it comes and see what happens . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't look to just one man to have the freedom to create because what happens if he 's not doing it or is marked out of the game ? ’ |
| 23 | I mean this could be another area in which he feels threatened because he thinks if Nick and Honey have children then that again will reinforce a sense of failure , wo n't it ? |
| 24 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 25 | Pooh only believes what Rabbit says because he believes that Rabbit believes it too . |
| 26 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 27 | Understand why something happens as it does and you are your own master , able to use your common sense and logic to make judgements and decisions . |
| 28 | I 'm disturbed with what Phil says as he argues that we should trust staff but we would not like them knocking on doors . |
| 29 | Of course , what do you always do when somebody says that — look down . |
| 30 | What happens when it burns or explodes , so the okay , the potassium nitrate and the carbon and the sulphur burn and they give quite a bit of er C O two . |