Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm making her kick , trying to get her to shake or swat them off , and the last thing I need at this point is for her to panic , in which case I can certainly kiss the whole blessed contract bye-bye . |
2 | Usually I can only suggest possible methods of locating a partner for a large cichlid — unless I have just had a similar query from someone else , in which case I will happily operate a marriage bureau as long as both fishkeepers are agreeable . |
3 | Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro . |
4 | ‘ For income I 'd again select a combination of funds . |
5 | There were a thousand possible combinations … one-four-six , one-four-seven … in twenty minutes I could perhaps try a hundred and fifty numbers . |
6 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
7 | Having identified the most likely candidates I shall then consider the critical experimental evidence ( which again derives from studies of the role of contextual factors ) . |
8 | Apart from a strong pair of legs you 'll also need a good dictionary to decipher the route names . |
9 | Erm you 'll have sine you 'll probably have a triangle with A B C marked on it . |
10 | By having a very limited range of values in each compartment you can quickly locate the components you require , with minimal wear on the components . |
11 | In her mind she could still hear the other woman saying lewdly , ‘ She 's certainly got the hots for you . ’ |
12 | If you stand where King Harold 's men awaited William 's troops or walk through the actual battlefield you can almost sense the battle all around you . |
13 | When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea , or a ‘ cinema tea ’ , which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off , which also represented something , and a cake . |
14 | If you build up an aerobic walking programme you will soon see the excess pounds drop away and you will feel and look fitter and slimmer without weight watching . |
15 | Maybe in the future you should perhaps adopt the style of Caroline , when speaking to major non-conformists , things are real . |
16 | In practice you will probably find the above guide will provide a good enough outline of the sort of person you are looking for in relation to the formal job description document . |
17 | You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter . |
18 | If this is not possible in a single short headline you can always add a second headline to give a little more information . |
19 | But Aunt Emmy I , you know , I know she 's in , you , in daylight you can just see a , a shape of a person standing there , yes . |
20 | On the subject of Fanatics you should always buy the full allowance . |
21 | In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy . |
22 | By moving the flux points around and changing their strengths we can easily assess the effect of a changing core field on VGP path . |
23 | Without such research we shall never have a conclusive demonstration of the need ( or lack thereof ) to include other indicators in resource allocation to the NHS . |
24 | I mean in other words we 'll now have a proper strategy the Vale of the White Horse , which was always an area of the county where the County Council services to the elderly was poorer than elsewhere . |
25 | Meanwhile , the rise of ‘ a new kind of economy … threatening to many , demanding rapid changes in work , life-style and habits , hurls large populations terrified of the future into spasms of diehard reaction … instead of the much-touted end of ideology , we may , in both global and domestic affairs , see a multiplicity of new ideologies spring up … instead of President Bush 's famous thousand points of light we may well face a thousand fires of fury . ’ |
26 | It is because the individual animal is the unit of study that this is a cluster sample ; if herds were the unit of study we would simply have a simple random sample of herds . |
27 | From GHS data we may therefore calculate the prevalence of self-reported acute health episodes and the duration of these episodes . |
28 | When those hybrids overran the guards they might simply tear the last survivors apart . |
29 | However , as Cusick maintained , once the audience had seen people coming and going through a stone doorway they would subconsciously assume the rest of the set to be stone as well . |
30 | I 've found that after a few years experience you can tell , you just can you know ; which even if you 've got a group with two very imaginative kids in , who can play instruments really well , and the others sit back and let them do it , then you might give the difference between two out of ten and nine out of ten for effort in the same group , but for the overall effect they would then get the same mark for the group thing . |