Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [is] [vb pp] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 ( b ) The pressures on the police may be such that they will try to avoid keeping records especially where nothing is found or they feel that no request for a copy of the record will be made .
2 Co-ordinator — making sure that objectives are clear and that everyone is involved and committed .
3 I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road .
4 Social learning theory does not take into account the biological and genetic factors of nature however , in believing that everything is learnt and nothing is innate and sometimes these must be taken into account .
5 I always objected to the idea that everything is predetermined and that we have no choice .
6 From this it can be seen that recruitment will be most effective if everyone is involved and understands the problem .
7 The entire fabric and balance of power within the group may be shattered if someone is transferred or promoted .
8 Over the past few days , police officers have asked me why a community has to wait until someone is injured or killed before an offender is sent to prison for a lengthy period .
9 In the typical Western diet all the energy in protein is burned up daily and none is converted and stored as fat .
10 If something is advertised and sold as a hover-mower , is it reasonable to expect it to be used as a hedge-trimmer ?
11 It 's terrible but I find I do exactly the same with my children now : they come in from school and everything is dropped and I say ‘ pick them up ’ and I try to stop nagging them because I remember how much I hated it .
12 The Solheim Cup should help to nurture interest among prospective sponsors , while there are players — Scotland 's Dale Reid to name but one — who believe that the WPGET could even now have three or four tournaments up their sleeve which they are not prepared to announce until everything is signed and sealed .
13 But nothing is signed and sealed yet . ’
14 Unless something is done and we are given some special dispensation we will never be happy with this . ’
15 It 's only a matter of time before someone is killed or badly injured . ’
16 In other words , they actually arrange a medical assessment before someone is admitted and they then try to continue the kind of care that that has initiated .
17 Love is in never considering whether one is loved but how one can increase one 's love .
18 Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation .
19 Here again , if any particular type of equipment is absolutely essential in the bathroom , and finance is a problem , the social services department of the local authority may be able to help , and it is worth approaching them before anything is purchased or installed .
20 When your skin becomes damaged by sunburn it loses heat and moisture more easily and when it is extensive then sunstroke follows when someone is dehydrated and lacking salt .
21 Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists .
22 No hygiene regulations like now when everything 's wrapped and wrapped again . ’
23 With value-added tax , and the other charges made when something is bought and sold , things are comparatively easy .
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