Example sentences of "[vb base] [that] [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't make any difference to us , ’ shrugs Tim in his guttural Salford grind that 's been chipped away by ten odd years of living in Cheshire . |
| 2 | It does n't make any difference to us , ’ shrugs Tim in his guttural Salford grind that 's been chipped away by ten odd years of living in Cheshire . |
| 3 | Talking of shares , here is a reminder of the share helpline that has been set up to give you advice about your shares in Guinness . |
| 4 | When he had filled that side , he turned the page over and continued to make notes , completely disregarding the pencil sketch that had been begun . |
| 5 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 6 | The fry that have been born usually hide in these plants , although I have lost more than I have saved only rearing four Swords and two Mollies . |
| 7 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 8 | Part-way through entering the sale , Mr. S. had to go into the store-room to check a detail regarding the [ number of the ] machine that had been selected . |
| 9 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 10 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 11 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 12 | This is exemplified by Dritherm — the cavity wall insulation with the 100 year guarantee that 's been installed in half a million homes . |
| 13 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 14 | With the entire wealth of pop history on hand , the temptation is to indulge in the kind of free-for-all pick'n'mix that has been called retro-nuevo . |
| 15 | I also bought a Gibson Sonex that 's been doctored ; they 're not supposed to be very good , but this one sounds great . |
| 16 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 17 | And though the new government came to power threatening to precipitate a European crisis over a detested farm deal that had been negotiated between America and the EC , only three of the 29 ministers of the new government are anti-Maastricht . |
| 18 | The printers " picnic that had been arranged for a Saturday at the beginning of August 1914 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of war . |
| 19 | It 's busted , so there 's a whole long sheet of towel on the floor , like a bog roll that 's been dropped . |
| 20 | Erm the darkening of the edges , I suppose that 's been done to create a little more atmosphere in the picture , and I think it possibly does . |
| 21 | It is our job to state the message and I believe that has been done . |
| 22 | In the pre-unified past , Sotheby 's sold , without a peep of protest , a Pater and Lancret that had been looted from Potsdam ( The Art Newspaper , No. 1 , October 1990 , p. 1 ) ( subsequently reacquired ) , and negotiated with the Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin-Dahlem , in the sale of drawings from the Theodor Allan Heinrich estate , some of which had been looted . |
| 23 | Demand that had been suppressed or masked by what the old Poor Law debates used to call ‘ ineligibility ’ emerges as effective demand in proportion as , for example , custodial and institutional care is replaced by community care . |
| 24 | Soil that has been absorbed into the top layer of a substrate may be very difficult to remove . |
| 25 | Miami 's new-born Murk label that has been causing something of a stir on these shores of late , enough at least for Network to wet their oars and row straight for a licensing deal that sees three of the label 's best tracks to date brought together for a sampler EP . |
| 26 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 27 | Charlie Jordan was sitting beside his boat enjoying a pipe while he repaired some tackle that had been damaged . |
| 28 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 29 | I am one of those who welcome without any reservation the citizens charter that has been brought forward by the Government . |
| 30 | after an anonymous telephone call that had been passed on from Scotland Yard . |