Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our data suggest that it also has an effect on colorectal tissue . |
| 2 | That is saying something and , indeed , there are those closer to him who suggest that he really believes he has got the ball ‘ on a piece of string ’ at the moment , but hardly dares to say so in case it tempts fate . |
| 3 | The recent tours of the Republic by New Zealand and world champions Australia demonstrated that it still continues to do so — and how . |
| 4 | Diana has never been close to the Princess Royal , and demonstrated that she now has no intention of pretending otherwise . |
| 5 | The block surface is ignored as the cylinder is initially checked to establish that it successfully passes through the negative surface defining the interior boundary around the hole . |
| 6 | The working party has claimed that it routinely alters MRLs for food . |
| 7 | ( In fact , if one reads her work carefully , one notices that she never speaks of God , but rather of people 's concept of God , which may lead them on in their striving for justice . ) |
| 8 | They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer . |
| 9 | Under these tests , a country reserves the right to refuse an operating licence to a foreign firm if it deems that it already has enough similar companies on its territory . |
| 10 | You might be surprised to find that it only means an increase in activity of fifteen percent of what you 're currently doing , to achieve something that 's in year three , that you 've got as year three , and you might think , ooh , that 's what I 'll do for year two . |
| 11 | GRAHAM TAYLOR woke today to find that he still has at least one friend after the worst week of his life . |
| 12 | The compelling analysis of this anecdote is then shown to have important implications for the reading of some familiar literary text , revealing that it too shares in the cultural presumptions critically uncovered in the anecdote . |
| 13 | The idea of going out to the suburb with the dog track , and confronting the confusions and embarrassments of his past life with the formidable armoury of maturity and understanding that he now possesses , appears suddenly very sweet . |
| 14 | And never forget that he also means trouble , so watch your tongue when you 're in his presence . |
| 15 | Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points . |
| 16 | Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points . |
| 17 | He has often told friends he would like to write and he obviously has the creativity that could be adapted to another form of expression . |
| 18 | I do n't know if anybody else finds that . |
| 19 | Erm I was thinking of phoning John , I do n't know if anyone else knows anyone else who might have tubular bells of the right pitches ? |
| 20 | Julie was co-director of an information technology firm she helped to establish and which now employs 25 people . |
| 21 | The video work at this school revealed to some teachers the gap between their perception of what is happening and what really happens in the classroom . |
| 22 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 23 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 24 | For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively . |
| 25 | In consequence , many Members who put their names down will have only ill-formed ideas about what they want and it frequently happens that Bills presented are ill-prepared or misconceived . |
| 26 | You ca n't always wait until someone else tries it . |
| 27 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 28 | In taking this position , the bishops were also following the lead of Pope John Paul II who , on his visit to Ireland in 1979 had argued : ‘ Divorce , for whatever reason it is introduced , inevitably becomes easier and easier to obtain and it gradually comes to be accepted as a normal part of life ’ ( 1979 ) . |
| 29 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 30 | And maybe it has but it also seems to have raised the stakes unhelpfully , even dangerously high . |