Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the wind gusts , rotors need either to flex or be very strong . |
| 2 | If the equipment in a playground needs repairing or is n't firmly fixed to the ground , or if there 's a lot of rubbish and broken glass lying around , do n't hesitate to notify the authorities . |
| 3 | They say that no need has been proven or is ever likely to be . |
| 4 | Dealers are confident that the market has stabilised or is even on the up-turn . |
| 5 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 6 | Native speakers of English typically use " have " in the present tense ( as in these two examples ) only when they want to imply that the event described is still happening or is still the case . |
| 7 | If the child does not know or is too shy to talk a suggestion that ‘ Perhaps mum or dad can remind you ? ’ and encouraging the parents to talk is one way around the problem . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , he did , but Jason either did n't know or was too frightened to speak . |
| 9 | We teachers need actually to say to the children that they are going to enjoy the work that day , that it will be interesting , and that they are going to know or be able to do things at the end of the day that they did n't know or were n't able to do before . |
| 10 | She almost asked whether he had not been there the previous Friday but stopped , unsure whether he had forgotten or was deliberately misleading her . |
| 11 | If not , and he 's picking the frog out of everyone who has or is still playing for the team , surely Strachan 's contribution far outweighs anything done by the Frog . |
| 12 | The necessity to offline may arise when the storage disks are becoming full , or if a certain package/package structure does not need to be stored online because it has been superseded or is no longer part of a live project . |
| 13 | Generally speaking , organisms in warm , shallow seas that either build or are closely associated with reefs have been relatively vulnerable to extinction , as have planktonic foraminifera and ammonites , which have undergone a succession of ‘ boom and bust ’ cycles ( Vermeij , 1978 ; Haliam , 1981c ) . |
| 14 | Slowly add the 1:1 nitric acid to the mercuric nitrate with constant stirring until the milky precipitate just dissolves or is just about to — approximately 8 drops of acid is usually sufficient . |
| 15 | Inside , the triforium is often omitted or is just a decorative band , while the nave arcade is of great importance . |
| 16 | I suspect the King was surrounded and was lightly wounded by arrows . |
| 17 | He , ‘ the seigneur ’ , hears the ravishing beauty of the song , but can not act and is not free ; they labour and act in a practical fashion , but do not hear . |
| 18 | Indeed , if the system has been well designed and is well run , it should stimulate demand for more and different types of information . |
| 19 | I went home sulking and was still in a mood when Frankie returned . |
| 20 | Erm the approach we 've adopted is to try and be as flexible as possible in terms of the using both the land-take and the economic activity rates . |
| 21 | ‘ It wo n't always be easy , but we ought to try and be as cheerful as possible . ’ |
| 22 | so we have to try and be really polite you see and she helps us like you are and , and see how your |
| 23 | The white press of Kenya had a far larger market to attract and was altogether more viable : a considerable number of Kenyan newspapers and magazines were readily available in Tanganyika . |
| 24 | They became scapegoats for crimes committed and were widely bruited as potential subversives . |
| 25 | But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in . |
| 26 | But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in . |
| 27 | If B replies no he is inviting A to tell him , while a response of no could be taken to mean that he does not know and is not expecting to be told . |
| 28 | He thought he was having a secret affair , and everyone thought I did n't know and was terribly sympathetic . |
| 29 | This was much more than we had expected and was largely due to the need to raise the path to the front door , which involved relocating two man-hole covers . |
| 30 | If the top of the egg is exposed to a sufficient dose of ultraviolet irradiation the nucleus is inactivated and is functionally useless while the cytoplasm is unaffected . |