Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better Leisure ’ offers gently exercise and relaxation for men and women of 50–plus . |
| 2 | Main shock and aftershocks together demonstrated that the fault runs north-south . |
| 3 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |
| 4 | The Commission 's record on attacking cartels and concerted practices is impressive , for it has vigorously pursued and successfully secured the termination of a substantial number and variety of concerted practices . |
| 5 | Britain 's growth rate has rarely exceeded that on the continent by more than one percentage point . |
| 6 | Over the past few months , for instance , our Government has single-handedly ensured that the new directive on efficiency standards for boilers ended up far weaker than initially proposed by the commission . |
| 7 | The population of Liverpool has vastly reduced since the so-called Labour party policy took over our great city . |
| 8 | Godard has revealingly said that cinema is dependent on capitalism in two senses : first in the making of the film and second that ‘ in film the money comes back in the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 27 ) . |
| 9 | However , his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life has rather backfired because on one occasion to distract a rather persistent journalist he assured him that he was ‘ heavily into drugs and loved having sex with Chihuahuas . ’ |
| 10 | Until recently , a salmon farm inhibited fishing in Skeltar , but this enterprise has since ended and salmon once more have freedom of access to their traditional spawning grounds . |
| 11 | Gestetner made pre-tax profits of £27.2m last year on sales of £900.3m , but the company has since said that trading in Europe has deteriorated and that it sees only a small profit for the half to end-April.Inchcape is buying the shares from Bermudan-registered Chiltern Capital Ltd , quoted in Australia . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 13 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 14 | It has since emerged that several aircrew were reluctant to continue the slaughter . |
| 15 | No one ever asked me to do so — though everyone has since assumed that , for all eternity , it will be my round of drinks . ) |
| 16 | Even Mr Murray , who appeared on television to condemn Peking for its butchery , has since acknowledged that ‘ at the end of the day , we have to live with these guys . |
| 17 | Initial documents were sent to Dublin from Britain in January , but Mr Barnes has since revealed that more documents were supplied by London as recently as July . |
| 18 | The Statistics Branch of the Northern Ireland Department of Commerce has since confirmed that the slump in industrial production was similar to that of the earlier strike in 1974 . |
| 19 | He was charged $65 for a call that never got through , and the Inter- Continental has since confirmed that ‘ for technical reasons , charges for all international calls out of Zaire commence as soon as the line rings , as opposed to when the party telephoned actually picks up the receiver ’ . |
| 20 | She has since discovered that owner Pauline and her colleague Sue are both very knowledgeable and extremely helpful in spite of the fact that Tessa had obviously bought her machine elsewhere . |
| 21 | This little bubble of unreality has since expanded until it enfolds the entire Paisley Park complex in Minneapolis , with all the technology and all his minions at Prince 's beck and call . |
| 22 | The minister has since explained that the committee found conflicting evidence in a ‘ preliminary report ’ from Indianapolis , the home of Lilly 's research laboratories . |
| 23 | Chairman Sam Smith has since resigned as have three non-executive directors . |
| 24 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office was present during the opening speeches of this debate but he has since disappeared and has not returned since . |
| 25 | Roos has since died and Tsurumaki has gone out of business . |
| 26 | The son has since died and the daughter has handed over her interests in the case to lawyers . |
| 27 | Peter said he thought Lydia White ( Linguistics/McGill , Montreal ) had still not placed her book on universal grammar with a publisher although Tim Blakey has since reported that when he contacted her when he was there last week , she refused to see ‘ yet another publisher ’ . |
| 28 | A future director of the National Theatre who admired Leavis 's lectures at Cambridge has since remarked that ‘ all we students pretended we sped to his lectures to imbibe his humanism , ’ whereas in fact they were enjoying his character-assassinations : ‘ Strange that a great moralist should be so destructive about creative artists . ’ |
| 29 | Her old flatmate Carolyn Pride , who has since married and become Carolyn Bartholomew , has been instrumental in this . |
| 30 | She has since married and is living in South London with her husband and her two children . |