Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Forgive 'N Forget 's most recent outing he had run fourth behind Combs Ditch at Haydock Park , and that horse was also in the Gold Cup field , third favourite after a highly successful season which had brought him three good prizes and a neck defeat by Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 2 | At the top of the hill she was still in the forefront of matters with Run And Skip , but behind them Wayward Lad and Forgive 'N Forget were travelling smoothly and coming ever closer . |
| 3 | When recycling or re-use is not practicable , C&P 's waste is sent for landfill or incineration by professional contractors who are authorised and policed by the regulatory bodies . |
| 4 | Someone for whom it really is of no concern whether others enjoy or suffer is schizophrenic ; he is no egoist , but one whose imaginary viewpoints are disconnected from the real people around him . |
| 5 | Everything I do or say is turned against me . |
| 6 | Yeah their their funding tends to be they 'll they 'll fund something like a production or they 'll say at you know if you put our name up were give you so much or General Portfolio perhaps will will fund a particular show or a series of show 's or say were prepared to put a thousand pounds could you name six shows and we 'll put our name on those show 's when they 're advertised but no company or other Council 's actually prepared to come along and say were prepared to put money on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 8 | Studies on particular aspects of gastrulation or organogenesis will require their own set of parameters according to the specific system or process being studied . |
| 9 | Both approaches will incorporate controllable and uncontrollable variables , the proportion and relative importance of each type varying with the type of system or process being modelled . |
| 10 | Auden was rightly suspicious of his own rhetoric ; but to say that the line We must love one another or die is untrue because we die anyway ( or because those who do not love do not instantly expire ) is to take a narrow or forgetful view . |
| 11 | Export or perish was the message received by 98 countries from the IMF between 1980 and 19852 . |
| 12 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 13 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 14 | Incense or oil burner in the form of a Swastika adorning an ant-hill in which a Cobra or Nag is in residence . |
| 15 | It is as a result of fears such as this that members of the RUC are required to obtain official permission before they cam talk to outsiders , such as the Press and researchers , or face being sacked from the force . |
| 16 | Fyodor Kuzmin , the commander of the Baltic Military District , ordered Lithuanian deserters from the Red Army to return to their units within four days or face being returned by force . |
| 17 | Gloucestershire County Council had been told to cut services to the tune of almost ten million pounds or face being poll tax capped . |
| 18 | ‘ ALL THAT WE SEE or seem is but a dream within a dream … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream . ’ |
| 20 | The people that we fall in love with , form an emotional bond with or marry are an integral part of our destiny . |
| 21 | The haulage contract was made on Smith & Jones standard form contract terms , endorsed with a special clause that in the event of any damage or delay to any of the goods , total payment would be suspended pending a satisfactory explanation as to damage or delay being received from GFT . |
| 22 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 23 | Equitable Life , Royal Life and Save & Prosper are just three of the major companies with school fee plans . |
| 24 | With Save & Prosper 's Guaranteed Stockmarket Bond , if shares go up you win and if they go down you get your money back . |
| 25 | Save & Prosper is more generous , giving the equivalent of the offer price if the shares are kept . |
| 26 | Car , bus and train passengers have to make generous allowances for traffic being heavy or bus/train being late or cancelled . |
| 27 | The whole reason why they succeed or fail is management . ’ |
| 28 | The whole reason why they succeed or fail is management |
| 29 | These new relationships may or may not affect the physical arrangement of the structure or artefact being designed . |
| 30 | But if our picture of God is wrong , then our whole presupposition of what it is possible for God to be or do is correspondingly altered . |