Example sentences of "[vb -s] [coord] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether one agrees or disagrees with this contention is immaterial . |
| 2 | I mean , everybody round here just stands or sits on those bar stools . |
| 3 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 4 | In this country a hospital accepts and cares for any person who can not be cared for in their own home , but to step into their admission halls is not always the loving experience needed . |
| 5 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 6 | I would imagine that industry confronts and copes with more forms of change than any other branch of our life . |
| 7 | It pitches and bobbles on some roads , and bounces over the potholes driven fast . |
| 8 | Marjorie , however , feels that she must put in an appearance downstairs , however token , before he leaves for work , and there is a sense in which Vic understands and approves of this gesture . |
| 9 | Once the marketmaker 's spread and the broker 's commission are taken into account the investor will face a sizeable loss if he or she buys and exercises at these prices . |
| 10 | Distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation , should all be given their ordinary meanings . |
| 11 | " A person is guilty of an offence it he ( a ) uses towards another person , threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign … which is threatening , abusive or insulting … with intent to cause another to believe that immediate violence will be used … or to provoke ( such ) violence . |
| 12 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if he — ( a ) uses towards another person threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation which is threatening , abusive or insulting , with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person , or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another , or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 13 | This may take several hours during which she will lay small groups of eggs , which the male fertilises and covers with more bubbles . |
| 14 | Then the secretory rate declined during second and third hours to the level of about 15–20 mg/30 minutes and remained at this level during the fourth and fifth hour of caerulein infusion . |
| 15 | He is Robert Harrold , Chairman of the National Dance branch of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing — a very experienced teacher who lectures and examines in many parts of the world . |
| 16 | Anyone who organizes or participates in these festivals is a traitor to Islam and the Iranian nation , " he declared . |
| 17 | Who comes or goes in these rooms is my business , not yours ! ’ |
| 18 | The age at which the woman first marries or enters into another type of conjugal union circumscribes childbearing . |
| 19 | The total form of a person 's language that he knows and uses at any stage of his development . |
| 20 | First ascertain what the learner already knows and teach from that point . |