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

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1 If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity please sign and return the attached undertaking of confidentiality to me .
2 Many systems make some questions easier to ask and answer , particularly where the structure of these matches the design of the database .
3 Ascertain what type of case each lawyer prefers and whether the lawyer has any interests outside work that assist .
4 Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course .
5 Feeling really invigorated I decided to spend my remaining time in the gym and let those machines really know that I meant business !
6 Even those companies not using these products directly find that they are affected by the de facto standards introduced by IBM .
7 We felt we should make these resources better known and reinforce the contemporary vocation of the Pompidou Centre .
8 This is not to suggest that history only happens because some later critic constructs it .
9 I telephoned that prison only to learn that he had been transferred to Risley .
10 Theories of the weak nuclear interaction which describe this process also predict that it is possible for the nucleus to decay by the simultaneous emission of two electrons or positrons ( double beta decay ) .
11 The statement poured scorn on a rebel broadcast several hours earlier saying that the junior officers , led by a group of captains , had ousted the military leader and his general staff .
12 Yes , okay , then maybe you can mark that up then , and it might be that we , we might have to circulate all members again to see if they assume the situation of being able to undertake these particular requests er , about the visits .
13 I do n't think many people ever realized that his biggest hero of all time was Flynn [ with whom Howard worked in The Roots of Heaven in 1958 ] .
14 The need to fill these vacancies quickly means that an agency is preferred to advertising and search , and in addition such a strategy avoids the administrative burden of taking persons on and off payroll whose stay will be limited .
15 For both parts of the experiment , for each trial ( represented by columns 1 to 12 in each word list ) , the experimenter simply ticked each word correctly recalled and totalled the number of words recalled for each of the 20 serial positions .
16 I put up for sale the service areas on new long leases , retaining some controls only to ensure that the areas were safe stopping places for motorway travellers .
17 I find this attitude hard to understand but it still prevails today .
18 I 'm still conscious of what I wear , I have n't completely lost track of fashion , but I do take more care now to see that my body is well covered , especially my head .
19 Feminists often argue that marriage merely reproduces and reinforces the inequality between the sexes prevalent in wider society .
20 I will not pass this way again to see if it did him any good .
21 Men who took such actions clearly felt that they had a secure prospect of work and that they did not need to be particularly submissive to their lords .
22 Keep all trimmings tightly wrapped until used to prevent drying out .
23 It will cover any expenses reasonably incurred and any loss of benefit which you might reasonably be expected to have had but for the dismissal .
24 To see that this is the case , annotate each term below to say whether it belongs to the typical register of the birthday card or the register of the legal contract ( even if you have never seen a legal contract you can probably do this ) .
25 But how did such migrants ever learn that there was better weather at the other end of the globe or that hundreds of miles north of the African savannahs , for a few months , abundant food was to be had .
26 ‘ If DJs gave either side enough spins and all curry eaters bought it , I believe I could really hit the big time , ’ said Peter , who lives in Bargoed , Mid-Glamorgan .
27 Do these experts really think that mothers are so inept that they would go on doing something that is so ineffective ? ’
28 Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds .
29 Taxation is designed to ensure that the losing party only has to pay those expenses properly incurred and is not saddled with the cost of unnecessary or unduly expensive work .
30 I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt .
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