Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 2 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 3 | Why do they have to go where it says : Danger ? ’ |
| 4 | I 've used a balloon in Africa but you tend to go where it wants ! |
| 5 | You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases … |
| 6 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 7 | I think our flat is just of his own , he comes and goes where he likes . |
| 8 | If it is inappropriate for the child to attend or he does not wish to do so , the conference should be given a clear and up-to-date statement of his views by one of the professionals working with him . |
| 9 | It 's got two chances either it lives or it dies , and it started to grow like mad . |
| 10 | You must tell the Department if you become aware that you are suffering from a disease or physical disability not previously disclosed or which has been disclosed but has become more severe . |
| 11 | Oh I , never said he did n't have Aids , but he 's never , he 's never said either has he ? , he 's never said he has or he has n't |
| 12 | If Mr Lightbown is set on young and weak Tory miscreants , they either crumble or he persists until they do . |
| 13 | ‘ The locals are praying that he wants to stay in Santa Barbara forever . |
| 14 | If a person writes a book or magazine article denying that he has committed any crime , are his words to be interpreted as his opinion regarding the crime ? |
| 15 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 16 | Whatever criticisms may be made of the STV there is no denying that it has proved viable in its own fashion in twenty-two general elections in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 17 | Many of the pieces can not be the beginning because they suggest that something has already happened . |
| 18 | Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years . |
| 19 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 20 | What evidence there is on sett size suggest that it does n't necessarily increase with group size , and certainly the four individuals in the Brighton group would hardly seem to need a complex consisting of more than a kilometre of tunnels . |
| 21 | We suggest that it enables the parents to pay a compliment to close friends by inviting them to be godparents . |
| 22 | The examples listed earlier suggest that it covers a vast variety of relations ; for example the relation between capitalists and workers is said to be one of oppression , while that between factions of the ruling class might be competition . |
| 23 | Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty . |
| 24 | Now , sources close to the receivers of the H-M Agency of Los Angeles suggest that it has been conclusively proved that she was involved in the massacre at Dead Rat , Arizona , last year , during which a peaceful force of process-servers were murdered by members of the Maniax gangcult , who then razed the community to the ground . |
| 25 | It is famous for its tremendous resources and ability to get the job done , but other firms suggest that it has a less than enviable success rate . |
| 26 | The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in . |
| 27 | Experiments suggest that it has a fluid consistency and that there is movement of the liquid molecules within the membrane . |
| 28 | There are , for instance , several conflicting claims concerning the function of the Japanese suffix -wa : some suggest that it is an obligatory marker of topic ( this claim is implicit in Li , 1976 : 465 ) ; others suggest that it marks given information ( see 5.1.2. below for an explanation of given vs new information ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Then I suggest that it begins working . |
| 30 | Popular understandings of subjectivity , psychology 's object , suggest that it escapes rationality . |