Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with fine understatement it records where getting from A to B is virtually impossible : ‘ There are no rail services in Equatorial Guinea , few tarred roads , very few buses and no taxis . ’ |
| 2 | and he go and mum goes where have you been ? |
| 3 | If you 've ever wondered what Joan Didion shouts while having an orgasm , she can tell — the names of Herman Melville novels . |
| 4 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 5 | If you really know what you 're doing on each and every single note in your lead then you 're controlling your solo , as opposed to merely playing a bunch of licks and exercises while trying to land on a cool note here and there . |
| 6 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |
| 7 | With or without a supportive partner , managing independently remains a common goal for many mothers searching for ways of meeting health needs while cutting back on health resources . |
| 8 | The visually handicapped pupils attending an ordinary school may be greatly helped by a physical and social environment that has been planned with some sensitivity to their special needs while retaining a challenging or ‘ normal ’ character . |
| 9 | Tunisia faces a major challenge in meeting the country 's water needs whilst preventing the destruction of wetland ecosystems . |
| 10 | The conventionalist judge we just imagined , who worries whether deciding against Mrs. McLoughlin would be efficient in virtue of the precedents that mothers may recover for emotional injury sustained at the scene , has no need to look for any larger underlying principle " embedded " in these precedents or to defend one controversial view about the content of these principles . |
| 11 | ‘ Lying in hospital with plenty of time to think , one wonders whether racing is worth all the hassle . |
| 12 | HP DELIBERATES WHETHER TO CALL OUT THUNDERBIRDS |
| 13 | But in what the Law Society also interpreted yesterday as a clear shift in emphasis from the English proposals , the paper makes it clear that the role of the Lord President would be no different from the one he currently exercises when approving training and professional rules . |
| 14 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 15 | The potential of Belbin 's analysis for team management includes clarifying team needs when recruiting new members , allocation of roles , identifying training and development needs , constituting new teams and serving as a basis for team review . |
| 16 | 2 wishes to take an exclusive sub-licence of all of 's rights relating to the Licensed Software in the territories set out in Schedule 2 to this Agreement ( ‘ the Agreed Territories ’ ) for the purposes set out in this Agreement , which will include the publication of customised disks to meet specific market needs as described in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to this Agreement ( ‘ the Student Disks ’ ) . |
| 17 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 18 | Little was done , or could have been done under the imperatives of war needs as interpreted at the time , to close down the schools on the Black List , long overdue for closure and replacement , or to rebuild inner-city schools . |
| 19 | The technique makes use of the properties that water develops when heated to high temperatures at high atmospheric pressures . |
| 20 | Presently available nuclear power comes from the ‘ fissioning ’ , breaking up , of the atomic nuclei of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium and has as byproducts both desirable release of energy and unwanted nasty radioactive contaminants . |
| 21 | Does relative molecular mass have the same significance when applied to potassium chloride as it has when applied to benzene ? |
| 22 | The uniform group of objects that the programmer has when using an object-oriented model , also reduces the sting of the ‘ elegance and simplicity ’ argument used against the proponents of semantic data modelling . |
| 23 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |
| 24 | Such a process may be comparable to the experience one has when switching on the radio in the middle of a discussion programme and trying to understand the discussion through a partial reconstruction of what must have been said already , who the participants must be , and so on . |
| 25 | This transition the train goes through is like the experience one has when watching a train embark on a voyage oneself . |
| 26 | Discretion is concerned with the element of choice that an individual has when making a decision . |
| 27 | What an observer sees , that is , the visual experience that an observer has when viewing an object , depends in part on his past experience , his knowledge and his expectations . |
| 28 | The socialist , the feminist , or the worker who picks up a cheap print of the Memorial Sheet to Karl Liebknecht ( 1919 ) , is not prioritising the formal elements which attracted Max Lehrs as writing , ‘ It would be very regrettable if ( Kollowitz ‘ etchings ) found approval from the public merely because of their social content … = Art should not and can not serve the changing goals of parties . ’ |
| 29 | The chapter unfolds as follows . |
| 30 | This sentence structure then develops as set out in Fig 3. 1 . |