Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of my holiday went so quickly , each day we went out , sight seeing or to various beaches , and also it was very hot , not like England . |
| 2 | So the whole crystal structure tries to contract or in other words the material is under pressure ( see Example 3.2 ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps they need to be better publicised or at different times/days . |
| 4 | This probably reflects the fact that all such work tended to attract men from similar areas — those that were conveniently situated or with low levels of local employment . |
| 5 | There tended to be a permanent core of linguistically trained staff engaged on programmes within companies , either freelance or on renewable , semi-permanent contracts . |
| 6 | For instance , we might suppose that a belief is justified iff in certain circumstances ( to be spelled out ) it would be knowledge . |
| 7 | Metaphors , when mixed or over extended , may : 1 . |
| 8 | The collection of data and the general observation stage ( often referred to in general terms as ‘ the field work ’ ) can be an onerous step for the inexperienced researcher , particularly if the fieldwork is undertaken too soon , before ideas have been clarified or without adequate pilot studies being made to try out questionnaires or interview schedules . |
| 9 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 10 | A final element in the USA is the legal interest in mental health which focuses strongly on the individual and the right not to be committed except in extreme circumstances . |
| 11 | suggest that with appropriate feedback the effect could be eliminated . |
| 12 | Comparisons suggest that for comparable hotels rack rates can be increased by an average of £5 per night . |
| 13 | Estimates of the amount of oil in proven recoverable reserves ( 92 x 10 9 tonnes ) suggest that at current rates of use ( 3 x 10 9 tonnes per year ) we should have enough , both as fuel and a feedstock , for 30 years . |
| 14 | Table 11.8 ( and other partial data for France and Italy ) suggest that in general the burden of company taxation was not much reduced in the 1960s , so that the fall in profitability applied post-tax as well as pre-tax . |
| 15 | Suggest that in small groups they make an image to show what it 's like to experience conflicting feelings — of sorrow , loss , relief , excitement , hope , expectation . |
| 16 | I suggest that in future Councillors and concentrate on engaging their brains before they start putting pen to paper |
| 17 | The results of Warman 's experiments strongly suggest that in normal language comprehension syntactic processing is not autonomous , in the sense that the time taken to understand a sentence does not depend solely on the amount of syntactic analysis required . |
| 18 | Some partial statistics in February 1874 suggest that in certain firms the number was rising particularly fast . |
| 19 | Weber 's observations on status groups are important since they suggest that in certain situations status rather than class provides the basis for the formation of social groups whose members perceive common interests and a group identity . |
| 20 | I suggest that in early modern England the sodomite , though not an identity in the modern sense , could and did denote subject positions or types ; ‘ he ’ precisely characterized deviant subject positions as well as denoting the behaviour of individuals . |
| 21 | These findings suggest that in active inflammatory bowel disease , an increased biosynthesis might coexist with an increased consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids . |
| 22 | They suggest that in previous eras BBC Scotland got what was in essence a block grant from London in respect of costs of making programmes for Scotland . |
| 23 | These data suggest that after medical dissolution , the risk of gall stone recurrence is not reduced by a high fibre , low refined carbohydrate diet : it may be lowered , but not abolished , by low dose ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 24 | But if you take the , the servicing sections overall , what we should be able to say is that look okay we 're gon na have a delayed kick in of improved productiv because it , productivity cos of new systems that are helping us , whether it moves us from two point six to two point seven to two point eight is arguable , and we wo n't know that for sure until we get there , but we should n't have is deterioration . |
| 25 | Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily . |
| 26 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |
| 27 | Lyons , in fact , concedes ( b ) : ‘ I am only too prepared to accept that in other traditions scribal records either are not or are not seen to be intrinsically more reliable than memory and oral transmission . ’ |
| 28 | as the norm for conversational speech ; that is , to accept that in informal speech there is an inherent tendency to a reductionism by which we say only that which is necessary to effective communication . |
| 29 | But it still makes me angry to know that in other countries so many children die , so many families are bereaved , simply because they lack basic health care . |
| 30 | Admittedly , it probably helped that in real life , she came a cropper over Keifer . |