Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 The trick is to soften it even further — use the tiniest dab of dark aubergine or amethyst shadow and brush it over the lid , up into the crease and lightly over the eyeliner , to blur the edges . |
| 2 | If the conduct or behaviour of any member of your party causes distress or threatens danger or damage we reserve the right immediately to withdraw all their holiday facilities , including the provision of accommodation and flights , with no liability to refund any part of the price received for that person 's holiday . |
| 3 | ‘ We took the caravan to Teesdale every weekend during the season and I would make sketches of landscapes or take photos and paint them when I got home . |
| 4 | According to the trust 's Andy Hunter , the aim is not to treat or rehabilitate people but give them an opportunity to work . |
| 5 | They were trying to isolate the gene that produces insulin and insert it into the nucleus of a bacterium , so that you could get a self-replicating life-form which could then be used in the treatment of diabetes , or else it could provide a source of insulin that was n't animal-derived and did n't give you rejection problems . |
| 6 | This discovery has now been extended to the present-day analysis of human cancers by scientists world-wide and holds real promise for understanding the mechanisms that cause malignancy and treating them or even preventing them . |
| 7 | Alarmed by the scale of public outrage over the attack , the Provisional Irish Republican Army accused the police of being more interested in protecting property than saving lives and claimed they had not wanted to hurt anyone . |
| 8 | The Normans , too , that escaped Siward and joined them . |
| 9 | The interplay of these variables generated what Almond and Verba characterized as " the civic culture , " " a pluralistic culture based on communication and persuasion , a culture of consensus and diversity , a culture that permitted change but moderated it . " |
| 10 | Who needs wheel spats that collect debris and make it difficult to maintain the brakes , particularly when the engine is only 160hp in an airframe capable of taking 250 ? |
| 11 | Steamers could carry larger volumes of cargo than sailing vessels and do it more frequently and regularly . |
| 12 | Another source of distraction is that the initial what-questions ( first and second sentences ) are followed not , as one might expect , by an identification of the thing that inspired Rimbaud and drove him to reach into his soul , but by the pronoun It . |
| 13 | Finniston is in no doubt that making decisions and seeing them implemented properly are the most important aspects of a chairman 's job . |
| 14 | ‘ I could empty out this whole ward and fill it before evening with four new patients — four I could help , Jack ; four that need help and need it now . ’ |
| 15 | You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men . |
| 16 | It 's also a source of food and sport for Lithuanians who ride and ski in their forests and hunt game and prepare it for the table . |
| 17 | And fax machines that enable you to send and receive pages of information anywhere in the world — in seconds . |
| 18 | Does education prepare people to be objects of learning and to accept their place within the status quo , or does it encourage people to question the critical issues of the day and challenge forces that keep them passive ? |
| 19 | Mechanical filtration is anything , like filter wood , used to strain and collect particles and hold them for removal . |
| 20 | In Avon , Dr Peter Fleming , or a member of his team , will visit the home within 24 hours with the General Practitioner to give an explanation , as best they can , as to what has happened , to explain the post-mortem findings , and to counsel parents and help them in any way they can . |
| 21 | His round had been long and arduous , and he was thinking how pleasant it would be to see and tease McAllister and ask her to serve them all some home-made lemonade . |
| 22 | If the scope of reason is confined to refining and systematising imperatives and deducing them from each other , how can it ever change their relation to the spontaneous ? |
| 23 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 24 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 25 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 26 | Each year group described a recent trip and showed photos and work they had done . |
| 27 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |
| 28 | Its shared outlay option involves the hotelier paying the installation cost and buying fuel but having he system run and maintained by Cogen , with a consequently much lower electricity charge . |
| 29 | When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money . |
| 30 | Pat was a big man and grabbed Sean and bundled him over the couch and into the laps of Mrs Kelly and Mrs Quinn who screamed blue murder . |