Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the patients with idiopathic DU had , however , serum pepsinogen I values that were more than 50% higher than the highest value of all the other groups studied ( Table 2 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ten days ago we had confirmation that a company was willing to offer a 7 night holiday in Cyprus which means that are now hurriedly getting our act together . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She hoots and is about to say something , but she holds off in front of Darius and squints at me to see what I mean . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One hopes that is not what Crane had in mind when he credited Williams 's poems with ‘ charm ’ . |
| 8 | " And " is by no means always used in its Boolean sense ( consider " yachting and boating " ) , but " or " usually is so intended ( people use " or " rather than " and " when they do not see the concepts which it separates as being particularly closely related ) . |
| 9 | And erm I remember I remember that boy you know when goes when he goes that was so funny . |
| 10 | And then when he came down he goes that were n't that wa , that were n't me who thought that , it was Emma 's dirty mind . |
| 11 | CLAUDIUS takes ROS 's elbow as he passes and is immediately deep in conversation : the context is Shakespeare Act III , scene i . |
| 12 | Their epoxy , Kevlar , carbon and foam construction is virtually bullet-proof ; it floats and is all but impossible to dispose of . |
| 13 | It falls and it lifts and it lilts and is never still |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Ask yourself what is the point it raises that is not precisely covered by authority . |
| 16 | Eysenck claims that criminals tend to rate highly on two personality characteristics — extroversion and neuroticism — both of which he sees as being predominantly inherited . |
| 17 | Beccaria concludes with a section on prevention , which he sees as being very much preferable to punishment — it increases aggregate utility , the happiness of the greatest number ( or , rather , decreases their aggregate unhappiness ) . |
| 18 | The well-known symbol of the Association is on all packaged foods that it recognises as being truly organic and indicates that the food has been produced on land that meets all the requirements of the Association . |
| 19 | Now it seems that was n't the case . |
| 20 | The methods of enforcing a security interest depend upon the nature of the rights which it confers and are often in no way peculiar to company law . |
| 21 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
| 22 | For the verbs which accompany clausal adjectives , however , there is no need for any compatibility at all ( although it may happen to occur if the verb also takes simple objects ) , since the noun phrase here has no direct relation to the verb which it follows but is simply one of the elements assembled within the opaque frontiers of the clause . |
| 23 | The press , the TV and the radio would like to know what 's going on and , incidentally , so would I. Kersey does n't know , or he does and is n't saying . ’ |
| 24 | So Sardinia knows what it faces and is fully prepared . |
| 25 | He acknowledges that Donald is South Africa 's top bowler and major attraction but he believes that is still no excuse for bowling him too much . |