Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although there are no SDS-sequestration data on the dissociation of the minor groove binding drugs , since they do not have suitable absorbance spectra , NMR exchange rates suggest that they are in rapid exchange with the DNA [ 26 ] .
2 I suggest that you are over conscientious . ’
3 ‘ without going into further detail I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract .
4 I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract .
5 These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction .
6 Various ways of studying water strongly suggest that it is in a similar category — that is , it is a fluid containing clusters of water polymers of varying sizes which are continually changing and reforming .
7 Rare coloured propaganda photographs suggest that it was of a warm mid-brown shade .
8 But the best official estimates for the number of lone-parent families in 1981 suggest that there were in fact some 900 000 such families in Great Britain ( see Haskey , 1986 , who indicates that an estimate of 825 000 lone-parent families for 1978 was given to Parliament in 1981 ) .
9 If you need to use that facility , and I emphasize that it is for emergency use only , your contact at Voice of America is Felix Klamin . ’
10 We must ensure that farmers realise that it is in their interests to restore the habitat and hedges .
11 There are even a few who I 'm sure do n't have a care in the world , although I 'm almost prepared to stick my neck out and say that they 're in the minority .
12 ‘ Oh but Khan , they say that you 're in good condition for your age . ’
13 It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties .
14 ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’
15 His notes say that it was in 1924 , but it must have been sooner , probably 1921 or 1922 , because he was back in South Africa in time to get married in 1923 .
16 Say that someone is considering buying something which ( in early 1980 ) cost £100 .
17 I was pleased to hear the Prime Minister say that there is to be a debate next week .
18 Rather than presume that a motorway is required , will my hon. Friend the Minister acknowledge that there is at least one other option — to leave things as they are ?
19 even such persons who worry about the ‘ lost ’ of land as Erik Eckholm , acknowledge that it is in our power to have more land if there is a will to work for it .
20 But coming back , we moved again as I say and it was in the er winter .
21 But I mean y'know ah y'know g if you want if you 're in that s if you 're getting a bit worried about it , do get out of the room for a bit and then come back in later .
22 go if you want cos I 'm in no hurry .
23 Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in
24 you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long
25 Say if it 's in such a secluded place you know if you 're gon na be there for twenty , er for days , there 's no help
26 I know it seems a little bit i idealistic , do n't know what the word is I want but it is for warning
27 sleep while he was like that so I picked him up and took him back downstairs again ,
28 The hon. Gentleman must declare his hand and say whether he is in favour of those disposal powers .
29 People moan and cry when they are in pain .
30 A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression .
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