Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inner edge of a curtain or blind which is often bound or bordered . |
| 2 | When the principal exemplars of this class are dramatically eliminated the message is clear : middlemanship destroys from within , and the act of passing something on without truly changing or improving it is psychologically nullifying . |
| 3 | But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it 's no go if your personality is n't worth translating . |
| 4 | these values have to have an intrinsically prescriptive character , so that to know them is necessarily to have the will affected in a certain way . |
| 5 | There are in staffrooms ( as there are in every institution ) tacit rules that define what is collectively thought of as normal , acceptable , odd or inept and which therefore influence the kind of reputation and influence an individual has . |
| 6 | Once acquired it is rarely lost , even in echinoderms like sea urchins that ( perhaps ) could also function on a different symmetry pattern . |
| 7 | As a vet I am delighted this book is on the market and hope it is widely read . |
| 8 | On the south side Drury Chambers ( late 17th Century — now the Halifax Building Society ) , adjoining is Phelan and Agutter which is impressively decorated . |
| 9 | In order to achieve this the colonial authorities had to engineer a switch from subsistence production of basic food crops to the production of cash crops for the international market and to replace what is often termed the ‘ natural ’ economy of non-industrial societies with the ‘ money ’ economy of industrial societies . |
| 10 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 11 | She felt so strongly about the situation she removed Christopher , now 13 , from mainstream education and says she is still hoping to have his LEA provision reviewed . |
| 12 | The Saudi government claims to have removed the equivalent of 1.7 million barrels from offshore slicks , and says it is now starting to address the problem of oil on the beaches . |
| 13 | In a nutshell : young country bumpkin black cop is drafted in to defuse the tension on a London estate and discovers who 's really doing the dirty work . |
| 14 | Do the weeding yes and sorting which is really going to come from our meeting . |
| 15 | The Bush administration has undertaken a national energy review which will report by the end of the year , and that may be the first step towards the national action to end dependence on Gulf oil , and to start what 's always eluded this country — an Energy Policy . |
| 16 | THE world of public relations has plenty of detractors but Michael Murphy , the founder and chairman of PR Consultants Scotland , has managed both to make himself wealthy and to run what is widely regarded as Scotland 's most professional home-grown consultancy , as well as its largest . |
| 17 | And do n't forget that the money it costs to go to LA and to live there is eventually going to come out of your royalties , not the record company 's . |
| 18 | The Company is intent on maximising its potential and feels it is now set to further sales from 1991 which with revenue from other sources , point to a good year for the Company as a whole . |
| 19 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 20 | He says that the pain is so great that it brings tears to his eyes , makes him grumpy , and means he 's sometimes confined to his armchair for days on end . |
| 21 | Much worse to begin too soon and realize one is inadequately prepared than to begin too late and realize one is over-prepared . |
| 22 | Could erm could you perhaps tie up between you , David and Jane , erm so that Jane you could go and have a look at it and see what 's actually needed to get that up to date . |
| 23 | Progress has aimed its ADE at value added resellers and MIS departments in the past , but says it is now attempting to target large companies . |
| 24 | Ivan Capelli drove for the March team for five seasons , but says he 's still owed the money in unpaid wages . |
| 25 | ‘ They make you think of birdies , ’ says Les Jones , the club 's pro for 38 years , ‘ but getting them is easier said than done . |
| 26 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 27 | The intentions may be fine , but when considering what is actually happening in schools where the HCF approach is practised — as it is in very many — it seems to fit the marvellously Jewish remark attributed to Sam Goldwyn : " on the surface , profound , but deep down , superficial " . |