Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What soon became clear was that he had also acquired a modern-day glamorous superstar . |
| 2 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 3 | The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go . |
| 4 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ For the railway monopolies , it has always been that they wanted the data network modernised . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the strategy is placing renewed pressure on LAG : ‘ Lignite Action 's position has always been that they do not want to allow any form of boreholing or test-drilling by the company because this will give them a foothold into the area and once in , it will prove more difficult for them to be ousted again ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 8 | Now , now I , now I , personal arguments has always been that we raise people 's standards , out there , throughout the world . |
| 9 | No my philosophy with customer relations has always been that you do n't give somebody a refund , you give them some tickets to fly again so it 's keeps them flying |
| 10 | The prevailing view of such work group resistance has often been that it stems from workers ' misunderstanding of management 's intentions . |
| 11 | Yeah but the fact it 's come out is that they 've been honest . |
| 12 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 13 | The thing that upsets me when I see all these pregnant people walking around is that I did n't do it . |
| 14 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 15 | There is indeed a single gene male which has recently been and it acts as a switch . |
| 16 | The last thing I remember before the green light for ‘ Go ’ came on was that I had n't brought any Kleenex with me . |
| 17 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 18 | Well I , that 's really the only reason I came up was because I wondered if they wanted to take me off it , you know if you wanted to change it , because i it is n't working . |
| 19 | Another pointer to this being made up is that he has got a degree , so should have an IQ at least marginally above yer average player . |
| 20 | The crucial message that came back was that we needed more hands-on management . |
| 21 | Maybe all that happens now is that you feel tired , but give it a year or two and — ’ |
| 22 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 23 | What we should expect though is that it comes back down to around the three point five mark for the year . |
| 24 | Well now erm what it says here is that you want to sort of talk about possible options for a year out and then relevance of archaeology to career in surveying or land management . |
| 25 | The only thing I worry about is if I lose my mother at this time of life , before I 'm due for a pension — what 's going to happen to me ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 've heard it said that the only reason we got the contract with Talkin' Loud is 'cos we know Gilles . |
| 27 | The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance . |
| 28 | So the problem we 've got here is that we 've X squared D Y by D X equals X squared so somewhere up here we had Y equals what ? |
| 29 | The challenge that many of us face today is that we have a choice — whether or not we go out to work , how much domestic machinery we use , how much we involve the rest of the family in housework , whether or not we employ someone else to do the cleaning , how many take-away meals are put on the table , and so on . |
| 30 | Majority voting satisfies conditions P , I and D. Where it breaks down is that it does not satisfy U , as we have seen with the example of the voting paradox given earlier . |