Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depression of last week had lifted like a fever passing when the patient sleeps or asks for food . |
| 2 | And with fine understatement it records where getting from A to B is virtually impossible : ‘ There are no rail services in Equatorial Guinea , few tarred roads , very few buses and no taxis . ’ |
| 3 | This will not do , for it is no different from saying that when one experiences ‘ red ’ one thinks or conceives of the colour , whereas the point of the theory was to explain what such thinking , or conceiving , is . |
| 4 | Whether one agrees or disagrees with this contention is immaterial . |
| 5 | Organiser Pat Devey , of the Ferries Project , said : ‘ Anyone who lives or works in the area will be welcome . ’ |
| 6 | The ideal approach is to choose the software to fit the application and then buy the hardware it needs or subscribe to the appropriate bureau . |
| 7 | As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ . |
| 8 | No Director has or had during the period any material interest in any contract of significance to the Company 's business . |
| 9 | ‘ We would like to know what connection he has or had with the target of the original surveillance . ’ |
| 10 | It stands or falls on this one event . |
| 11 | ‘ It stands or falls on the quality of its detail , ’ says Winston . |
| 12 | .. Next Steps almost stands or falls by us . |
| 13 | The managing director of a big British agency , when he heard his colleagues saying that an agency stands or falls by its creative department used to reply , " No — it stands or falls by its progress control department . " |
| 14 | And so we can go back to all the Beatitudes , seeing how each stands or falls in relationship to the previous ‘ Be-attitudes ’ that we have before God , in God , for God , and through God living in us . |
| 15 | I mean , everybody round here just stands or sits on those bar stools . |
| 16 | This figure shows the drivechart for the program JANEPLUS , which aims to introduce pupils to the idea of mathematical functions by displaying named figures , each of which either adds or multiplies by a particular small whole number which number the pupils must discover by trial , hypothesis and check . |
| 17 | But maybe he never wants or needs to … |
| 18 | Once they reach room temperature , bacteria become active again and food deterioration starts or resumes from where it left off . |
| 19 | It is sometimes very hard to define where music starts or ceases to be , complicated . |
| 20 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 21 | ‘ Equalization of lifetime income profiles ’ concerns inequalities in lifetime income growth and involves developing career income profiles that rise with age . |
| 22 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 23 | It is not our credibility on tax matters that needs to be proved , but the Labour party 's . |
| 24 | What I find so extraordinary is that Opposition Members are so keen to place with trade unions abroad so much of the authority on labour law matters that resides in this House . |
| 25 | The reef 's new status , granted by the UN International Maritime Organisation , will enable the Australian government to insist that ships that pass through the reef carry a pilot . |
| 26 | In future when I land at anything other than properly documented airfields I will ask the question : Are there any other runways or strips that look like runways in the vicinity that could be mistaken for the active runway ? |
| 27 | As the air temperature drops on a still clear night dew drops that form between the fibres eventually freeze to form a sealed ice cover which traps the air within this space over the relatively warmer soil and prevents the temperature dropping below freezing . |
| 28 | Families are usually unable to describe how they function to an outsider and so questions that enquire about this directly are likely to be unhelpful . |
| 29 | Also for cutting longer grass or seed heads that tend to be missed by cylinder mowers . |
| 30 | On the contrary , God gives men so many reasons to have lack of trust ( calamities , uncertainties , loss of hope ) that it could be said that God actually illustrates that trust in something or someone beneficial is not to be erected on happiness or good experiences alone . ’ |