Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bill supposes that is how these things are done . |
| 4 | There may well be all sorts of deviations and fluctuations here ; the whole system expands and becomes complicated , develops and is continuously in motion and oscillating but , taken as a whole , it is in a state of equilibrium . |
| 5 | The Hindus believe also that the universe periodically dissolves and is then recreated . |
| 6 | You see , four of us going up and down twice a day , morning and evening , makes sixteen times altogether , and Mr Evans thinks that 's quite enough traipsing . |
| 7 | Perhaps the Prime Minister thinks that is too modest . |
| 8 | The methods are applied systematically every time the behaviour occurs or is about to occur . |
| 9 | The Regulation enters into force after the European Parliament has debated it , which should be no later than 31 March 1993 , but the Directive is delayed until October in response to a request by the Netherlands , which says that is not ready yet with its internal laws . |
| 10 | Although the market is growing by some 69% per annum now , Ovum says that 's already down 10% on its 1991 report 's prediction , and will fall to 27% per annum by 1997 . |
| 11 | Ever-loyal Leigh says that 's grossly unfair on a woman who proved she could act in the movie Madame Sousatzka and that she could sing and dance in the film version of Thirties musical The Boyfriend . |
| 12 | There are occasions when something occurs that is so much outside the laws of nature and likelihood that all previous points of mental reference have to be abandoned . |
| 13 | After a few blows there , the porcupine succumbs and is then turned carefully over and eaten from underneath , its soft underbelly causing no problems . |
| 14 | Some through passage also occurs and is probably regular , particularly in October and November , but the extent of such movements has not been determined accurately . |
| 15 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 16 | The largest wheel has a diameter of 17 feet l o inches and is over 14 feet wide . |
| 17 | CLAUDIUS takes ROS 's elbow as he passes and is immediately deep in conversation : the context is Shakespeare Act III , scene i . |
| 18 | That he neither really sees nor is really torn , that he can not enter the world of either comedy or tragedy , neither O brave new world that hath such people in it , nor Dark dark dark beneath the blaze of noon . |
| 19 | Colonel Qaddafi 's reported displeasure at the outcome of local debates on naturalization shows that is not always true . |
| 20 | Ask yourself what is the point it raises that is not precisely covered by authority . |
| 21 | This suspicion is particularly strong among biblical scholars , and one of them , Principal T.M. Knox , said more than twenty years ago ‘ The spirit moveth where it listeth and is not to be reduced to the numerical terms with which alone a computer can cope ’ . |
| 22 | Their epoxy , Kevlar , carbon and foam construction is virtually bullet-proof ; it floats and is all but impossible to dispose of . |
| 23 | The terrace garden still exists and is probably little changed since Tennyson 's time . |
| 24 | It falls and it lifts and it lilts and is never still |
| 25 | Anti-harassment legislation exists but is not much used . |
| 26 | The category of sexual assault includes but is not restricted to rape . |
| 27 | Force or coercion includes but is not limited to any of the circumstances listed in subdivision ( f ) ( i ) to ( v ) . |
| 28 | Force or coercion includes but is not limited to any of the following circumstances : ( i ) When the actor overcomes the victim through the actual application of physical force or physical violence . |
| 29 | Force or coercion includes but is not limited to any of the circumstances listed in sections 520b(1) ( f ) ( i ) to ( v ) . |
| 30 | Force or coercion includes but is not limited to any of the circumstances listed in section 520b(1) ( f ) ( i ) to ( v ) . |