Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Bought four years ago from Johnson Matthey , it has since trebled turnover and is now making healthy profits .
2 A bald answer to a problem , even though correct , will not earn many ( perhaps not any ) marks , because the examiner can not tell whether the student has knowledge or is just guessing .
3 He is doing well at school , has friends and is well liked .
4 Pr85 env , the initial translation product of the env gene forms oligomers , undergoes glycosylation and is proteolytically cleaved during its transport through the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus to the cell surface where it appears as a small transmembrane C-terminal domain p15(E) TM , linked noncovalently or by a disulphide bridge to a larger extracellular domain gp70 SU ( ref 25 ) .
5 Priestley received £3,000 and is now eyeing the £30,000 first prize at the Embassy World Championship .
6 But as such just because you 're hiring people that 's still going to be , in Marxist terms , seen as exploitation .
7 He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights .
8 There are two studies in progress which study heparin formally in the context of acute thrombolytic therapy ; in the European co-operative study group trial every patient receives TPA and is then randomised into an intravenous heparin or placebo group .
9 With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland .
10 Known as the prostatic-specific antigen test , it costs £15 and is currently used by about 20% of GPs .
11 It increases translucency and is quick drying , and is therefore ideal for glazing .
12 Without entering into the fine detail of what is required for a system of institutional international law it is clear that merely historically-established conventions followed according to the discretion of the participants in international relationships between states is insufficient to constitute law and is better regarded as a form of anarchy .
13 The support of the staff and their willingness to adjust their provision and their reaction , clearly demonstrates that given the proper approach teachers are in both principle and practice more willing to review their methods and sustain alternatives than is usually acknowledged .
14 The construction industry , despite its boom — bust nature , will regain confidence and is well placed to become a primary European export industry for the UK .
15 However , this survey also found that women spent less time out of the labour market rearing children than is often believed .
16 If I can explain inflation which included in the budget at this stage is inflation between November ninety two and November ninety three , so inflation from today if you like er or last November , through to the end of the year , that is provided for in the central contingency of the authority and as pay awards are awarded the money we drawn down from that into the planning committee so the amount there would one point five percent of pay and four point two percent from general commission , that 's reflecting inflation that 's already happening and is up last year 's budget to the position today if you like so one point five percent of pay was the A P T C award for July ninety two , sorry ninety three and we 're not anticipating here what the pay award will be for the coming year , that is dealt with centrally .
17 This process of taking information which is normally destined for the screen and sending it somewhere else is called redirection and is usually done with the > symbol .
18 It 's amazing how many women perm hair that 's already damaged and then wonder why the results are ghastly .
19 It 's called Jardea and is often found in water .
20 Those parts of the Bill are vehicles for British Rail to do work that is publicly demanded but which it resolutely refuses to give even the slightest hint that it contemplates .
21 Diarrhoea after cholecystectomy is a well recognised factor but is usually considered to be rather rare and to be caused sometimes by bile acid malabsorption of obscure origin .
22 They are not restricted , as formal databases are , to record material that is highly structured .
23 Forster shows Charlotte as someone who has never known love and is emotionally dried out because of it .
24 Suppose the economy is not one large , unified entity but is instead divided into a large number of islands .
25 She endures unnecessary episiotomies — the cutting of skin between anus and vagina — to speed delivery and is then sewn up again ‘ tight as a virgin for your husband ’ .
26 If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point .
27 It can be used when studying specific paddle strokes such as the low brace , forward paddling and bow rudder but is best used as an average overall measure of the paddlers style .
28 Former Sunderland striker Billy Hughes , who played in the 1973 Cup winning team and is now steward at Stressholme Golf Club , Darlington , said : ‘ It brought all the memories flooding back .
29 A year ago Ross decided to change sex and is now bidding to become a top female model .
30 Choosing Choose fruit that 's just softening ; it will soon ripen at room temperature .
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