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

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1 Imagine , he finally splutters , ’ all these little rich old ladies listening to techno It looks like Detroit is finally recognising its brightest new industry .
2 Tax-rates were cut , reliefs reduced or abolished and the £30,000 ceiling for mortgage relief has been frozen while relief is now restricted to the basic rate .
3 ‘ I 'm going back to see if Caspar 's still locked up . ’
4 Aids researchers are now investigating if HIV is somehow triggering the suicide response of protective white blood cells , stripping the body of immunity .
5 It is now fashionable , however , in universities , to question whether life is ever lived anywhere other than the imagination .
6 The problem which arose in British Steel can be overcome if agreement is finally reached .
7 Okay , well I think what we did was erm Right we talked about the list of exclusions , things that we ca n't record because Maureen 's already done them .
8 Heads began to drop as Rochford 's forwards took charge , the absence of Graham Mackleworth as motivator and hooker being very apparent .
9 There are several decisions about livestock I want to take while Father is here to advise me , and I must persuade him to come with me to Bodmin market on Thursday .
10 The fact that a convection pattern , occurring when Ra is a little above its critical value , commonly contains defects has very important consequences for the ways in which the convection may evolve as Ra is further increased .
11 The intention of this law is in doubt ; the idea that it was specifically directed against Kimon , whose mother was Thracian , fails because Kimon is now thought to have died as early as 451 , too early for the law to have touched him .
12 The news comes as BA is still licking its wounds from having to apologise for the dirty tricks campaign conducted against its smaller rival , Virgin Atlantic , and the early retiral of its former chairman , Lord King .
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