Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They will be very popular people — perhaps even more in demand than the producer — and should be able to sign short term contracts that allow them to continually search out the people willing to pay them most money . ’ |
| 2 | Like having a husband die and leave you for another woman at the same time . |
| 3 | All you have to do is answer three simple questions on the coupon provided and send it to : Ian Rush Competition , Liverpool Echo , Old Hall Street , Liverpool L69 3EB . |
| 4 | For the same reason , I suggest that you avoid overseas package tours that require you to be at the airport in the early hours of the morning , or very late at night , when you may have difficulty travelling to the airport safely . |
| 5 | In the absence of symmetry selection rules that require it to be zero , the value of the derivative is not restricted . |
| 6 | As early as February 1920 Trotsky had put before the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party a plan to end grain requisitioning and replace it with a fixed tax in kind ; also to allow the peasants to sell their surpluses on the ( to be revived ) market . |
| 7 | Professionals involved with child protection define and explain it in different and sometimes conflicting ways , and adopt quite different stances about the way it should be undertaken ( Stainton Rogers and Stainton Rogers , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | You can even create subject profiles that guide you to the pages containing stories most relevant to yourself . |
| 9 | If you are interested in enrolling in Business Direct , or wish any of your staff to enrol , please complete the attached application form and post it to the address shown or take it to your local Midland branch . |
| 10 | So if it 's an ambiguous message go and tell somebody about it so it can be clarified . |
| 11 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 12 | Napoleon marched through it on his way to Moscow , but today the road is used by those who wish to avoid the pressures of autobahn driving and see something of the pleasant , rolling countryside of Westphalia . |
| 13 | complete the application form ( and in some cases , ask your husband or wife to sign the consent form included and return it to you ) |
| 14 | To join , just complete the simple Enrolment Form enclosed and return it in the pre-paid envelope provided . |
| 15 | When it comes to the mother-in-law/son-in-law relationship , this is often a little less complicated , in spite of all those mother-in-law jokes that depict it as a continuous battle between a slightly hen-pecked , but still spirited little man , and his wife 's fierce , ugly , overweight mother . |
| 16 | It was the American biologist Garrett Hardin who first coined the highly apposite phrase ‘ fate 's lottery ’ for those capricious processes of gene shuffling that determine which of us shall inherit stretches of DNA coding for serious debility , which of us are bequeathed the determinants of mental disease , which of us will die young , and which of us will be able to avoid lung cancer despite a lifetime of heavy smoking . |
| 17 | His mother smiled and put me in his hand . |