Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever guesses , thinks or dreams he knows |
| 2 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ Every Parliamentary answer I have given or letter I despatched has been based on the position I understood it to be . ’ |
| 3 | If you do your own surveying and/or conveyancing you will spend some time at the Council offices checking with the building and planning officials . |
| 4 | While the Chicago School certainly addressed the expressive order in problematic ways , their critics have thrown out the baby with the bathwater ; misinterpreting or misunderstanding what these sociologists were attempting . |
| 5 | Swirling in an army Chinook helicopter through wind and fog and over a sea of smouldering lava yesterday , it was easy to see why earlier plans to bomb or mine it off course and up on to the surface have been shelved . |
| 6 | The amount of shearing or elongation which a ductile material will withstand varies enormously between different metals and alloys . |
| 7 | She may find it difficult to concentrate or interest herself much in anything or anybody . |
| 8 | Mind you , it 's not sunbathing or badminton I have in mind but planting — what more satisfying thing is there to do in the garden than to plant bulbs , or a tree or shrub to give you joy for years to come . |
| 9 | A typical ‘ theatre ’ student will therefore be one who can direct or discipline her or his individual skills towards a corporate aim . |
| 10 | Without knocking or hesitation he entered the left-hand door , drew up a chair and , with full and accurate expectation that he was awaited , opened his document case , threw the photographs on the desk and said , ‘ That 's the proof then . |
| 11 | The embodiment of such interactions , though not necessary to the understanding of the morning peak hour movements to work or education which have often been the primary focus of transport planning , is important to the understanding of other less straight-forward parts of the daily pattern of travel , which are important both to the travellers themselves and also to those concerned with the planning and provision of transport . |
| 12 | Enormously swollen parotid especially on the left side ; sensitive to the least touch or pressure which causes severe pain , he shrinks away when approached ; can scarcely swallow , throat sore internally ; face red and swollen ; eyes glassy and wild . |
| 13 | This account is now generally accepted , although some historians still suggest that Elizabeth herself would have preferred to have reintroduced the 1549 Prayer Book , had she been able to enlist any support for this move from her lay and clerical advisers at court . |
| 14 | The Organising Secretary of the scheme stated : ‘ I suggest that solicitors who participate in the Cardiff Duty Solicitor Scheme are not motivated by money or profit . ’ |
| 15 | Gur , Gur and Marshalek ( 1975 ) discuss findings which suggest that people who typically move their eyes in a leftward direction prefer to sit on the right side of a classroom ( looking towards the front ) . |
| 16 | ( c.26 ) " Since the kingdom consists of different regions , officers of the first , second , and indeed any rank should so far as possible be picked from different regions , so that [ men from ] the various regions should be able to come to the palace with a greater sense of knowing their way around ( familiarius ) since they would know that men who were from the same kin-group ( genealogia ) or the same region held a place there . " |
| 17 | It can not be too strongly stressed that people who use public parks enjoy seeing the building that was once its raison d'être . |
| 18 | To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like . |
| 19 | Nozick takes it therefore that for a to know that p we require that a would not have believed that p if p had been false . |
| 20 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 21 | Come August , when the action is beamed back from Barcelona , they might just recognise that man who works down at the local track . |
| 22 | It should not be forgotten that hazards themselves have geographical distributions yet there has been little effort in the UK to develop public domain databases . |
| 23 | Rhee explained the failures to control inflation as the fault of his incompetent ministers but Muccio maintained that Rhee himself was to blame . |
| 24 | It 's been claimed that children whose fathers worked there were genetically damaged by radiation . |
| 25 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 26 | And when you realise that there 's only one cop for every hundred people … you realise that feeling you have of safety and society order is just a f—ing whiff away from being gone . ’ |
| 27 | They say that parents who pay for their children 's education expect them to be given homework . |
| 28 | And some say that Jesus himself visited Glastonbury , after his resurrection , living for a while in a house where Glastonbury Abbey now stands . |
| 29 | So much is clear ; can we go further , and say that Otto himself went to Rome to be crowned in order to complete his pilgrimage in Charlemagne 's footsteps , that this was his chief motive ? |
| 30 | When you , when you say that Brian I mean you you 're , you 're talking about at the end of the planning the future after you prioritize ? |