Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I says Andy cut it down a bit like , even if you could cut , cut it down a bit for and I says he ca n't afford to give big housekeeping money and plus try and get a bus away to Kilkeel and take out , or take the wee girl out , what do you call her , Sonia . |
| 2 | What I 'd like to do to start with is I 'd like to actually put the scores up , put your scores up on the charts and then we 'll look at what , what exactly they mean , what does A stand for but what does it all mean . |
| 3 | Well they will be going through P as if everything goes |
| 4 | And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable . |
| 5 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |
| 6 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 7 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |
| 8 | Gifted The mantle of captaincy has never really settled on Azharuddin 's shoulders for while he remains a gifted and wristy batsmen , he is a shy , sensitive person . |
| 9 | Well there 's Diane the hairdresser 's wife whom I do n't see a great deal of but she lives near . |
| 10 | This meant that the scope for comparing establishment behaviour over time , which would provide some indication of whether there has been any increase in the use of temporary workers [ see Chapter 7 ] , was rather limited . |
| 11 | But , it has given no indication of whether it intends to acquire or dispose of any data processing activities . |
| 12 | Every research study needs to be assessed on the criterion of whether it measures up to its own stated objectives . |
| 13 | He gives a definite shape to a side in that he gets his hands on the ball and keeps moving forward . |
| 14 | When issuing the FBL , the FIATA freight forwarder acts as a carrier in that he concludes a contract for a combined or multi-modal transport with the shipper , and contracts or sub-contracts for the carriage with one or more carriers . |
| 15 | Of Condition In If it rains today I sha n't go shopping the clause if it rains today qualifies sha n't go . |
| 16 | Then we simply can not carry on our lives as if nothing has happened . |
| 17 | The couple act as if nothing has happened when Ferdinand agrees to stay . |
| 18 | ‘ Diana came off that plane in Korea as if she has just had a stand-up row with Charles , ’ the aide said . |
| 19 | Strangely , as they soar ever upwards , the balloons take on a mushroom-shape as if there 's been a nuclear explosion beneath . |
| 20 | There are n states of nature and he receives a return of if he takes action i and the state is j . |
| 21 | Indeed , the courts will take a pragmatic view of the complexity of the information and the employee 's ability to remember it as a test of whether it has been wrongfully used/disclosed by him . |
| 22 | The information needs to be stored in such a form that will facilitate fast testing of whether it matches what is being searched for . |
| 23 | Oh the Toshiba , the Toshiba transformers , that 's what he 's got a good range of and he 's written down |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not a question of whether she has any boyfriend , more a case of which boyfriend she 'll be with . |
| 25 | Oftel does say that it believes video on demand comes under the auspices of the Broadcasting Act , rather than BT 's Public Telecommunications Operator licence , and while the ITC agrees , it also says that the question of whether it constitutes a broadcasting service has still to be decided . |
| 26 | ‘ In future cases where a new regime comes to power unconstitutionally our attitude on the question of whether it qualifies to be treated as a government , will be left to be inferred from the nature of the dealings , if any , which we may have with it , and in particular on whether we are dealing with it on a normal government to government basis . |
| 27 | Access to their help , leaving aside the question of whether it employs a separate , distinct expertise , has usually meant passing on pupils from the classroom or the school . |
| 28 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 29 | For older women , there is a question of whether it has any relevance at all . ’ |
| 30 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |