Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its heart lie two raised mires of deep peat , wildernesses of scattered birch , where adders sun themselves among the fern , and amber dragonflies haunt the peaty pools . |
| 2 | ( Corney & Barrow sell it from 12 Helmet Row , London , EC1 ; tel : 071 251 4051 ) . |
| 3 | If you need to bring an umbrella , a street guide or anything other than a briefcase or handbag leave it in the reception area during the interview . |
| 4 | The first is the European Commission 's insistence that abolition of border controls means what it says : come next year , there must be no passport or customs control whatever at Dover . |
| 5 | Well if you stop crying and ask for it properly and you do n't mind if mummy or daddy do it for you that 's fine . |
| 6 | Does dew or rain reduce it to a sodden pulpy mass ? |
| 7 | But some people do n't like having the responsibility of doing their own thinking — they let the Church or television do it for them . |
| 8 | Stars of stage , screen & radio welcome you to the ‘ World of Entertainment ’ . |
| 9 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 10 | People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not . |
| 11 | Asthma , heart conditions , diabetes or epilepsy expose you to special risks , and we do n't recommend you windsurf with any of these conditions . |
| 12 | One of the many dimensional technologies that IMC court us for . ’ |
| 13 | CPRW 's National Executive Committee agreed this course of action yesterday , following a request from the Friends of Cardigan Bay that CPRW join them in calling for a suspension of the 14th Round of Oil/Gas Licensing ( 1 ) . |
| 14 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 15 | Once it was recognized that animals orient themselves in a variety of ways , the engineering approach was extremely successful in identifying the underlying mechanisms . |
| 16 | However , as John Springhall has recently argued , there is little evidence that teenagers suffer anything like an ‘ identity crisis ’ during their adolescent years . |
| 17 | If the police can exploit the technique for measuring the speed of road hogs , dare we hope to find that bats use it for measuring the speed of insect prey ? |
| 18 | Theodore 's reconciliation with Wilfrid took place in the context of Caedwalla 's dramatic ascendancy in southern England and if it is true that he expressed the wish that Wilfrid succeed him at Canterbury ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) this may have been in recognition of Caedwalla 's new regime with which Wilfrid was associated . |
| 19 | ‘ It is vital that companies prepare themselves for the new Europe and this initiative will help firms in the south . |
| 20 | Those possibilities are seen as restricted and , although many would not agree with Jackson 's controversial view that all blacks go through stages of white envy , all would appreciate the point that blacks resign themselves to more limited prospects . |
| 21 | For more evidence that addictions have something in common in the way they act on the brain as a whole , no matter which pathways they stimulate , look at the pictures on this page . |
| 22 | The one thing that pots give you above everything else is versatility . |
| 23 | ‘ But Jesus made me , so Jesus save me from pity , sympathy , and people discussing me . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But Jesus made me , so Jesus save me from pity , sympathy , and people discussing me . ’ |
| 25 | We believe that farmers should take an increased interest now in these matters because the erm general public are concerned about the rising instance of pollution and I think that farmers owe it to the remainder of the community to come to places like Muck '89 and see for themselves exactly what new machinery is available to combat pollution . |
| 26 | The fact that firms find it in their mutual interests to combine , or to develop lasting links , does not mean that such links are socially desirable in the wider sense ( as Williamson , for example , would agree ) . |
| 27 | One evening after dinner Wendell Harvey had demanded that Aubrey tell them about his childhood at The Grange , and how Harry had become involved with the family . |
| 28 | He thinks it 's ‘ nice ’ that people credit him with changing British photography , with breaking down the class barriers , with producing memorable images , but he also seems slightly amused by it all . |
| 29 | is that we do make sure that people know everything on the phone so . |
| 30 | He shows that the maize is an important political symbol ; that people use it in ritual exchanges ; that its by-products are useful in ways unique to it ; in short , that it is effective in areas of life other than nutrition . |