Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry , you 'll have to wait for daddy 's clear . |
| 2 | An act or forbearance of the one party , or the promise thereof , is the price for which the promise of the other is bought , and the promise thus given for value is enforceable . |
| 3 | I mean for instance is gipsy a very helpful word . |
| 4 | See what I mean about metal being unparodiable ? |
| 5 | However , most of the cases which arose for decision were concerned with payments extracted ultra vires by persons who in virtue of their position could insist on the wrongful payment as a precondition to affording the payer his legal rights i.e. they were payments colore officii . |
| 6 | Open Learning Grants for training are available to all companies in the manufacturing and construction industries , hotel and catering establishments and firms engaged in tradeable services . |
| 7 | Or are you saying that the level of provision the County Council propose for employment is excessive bearing in mind that they do not propose to cater for one hundred percent migration ? |
| 8 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 9 | However , only assignment and test for equality are legal operations on pointer variables . |
| 10 | The reluctance to write about sex is curious in a writer who has been gleefully unreticent on the demands and delinquencies attending other forms of physical exertion . |
| 11 | The practical importance of this latter requirement among people who know they disagree about justice is evident . |
| 12 | Despite boasts months ago , it has of course been unable to get volumes at 200MHz and probably wo n't until third quarter 1993 . |
| 13 | Their impact has of course been immense . |
| 14 | Disposing of hair is dodgy , as is buying a broom in May or at Christmas . |
| 15 | He can never be forgotten throughout heaven 's eternal days ! |
| 16 | Ministers actually grappling with policy are wary of Sir Leon Brittan 's suggestion this week that East Germany be integrated into the EC , not as a new member , but as an extension of an existing member , West Germany , which already provides the Krenz regime with special access to the West . |
| 17 | To tamper with serfdom was certain to arouse wild expectations among the peasantry and would require the most rigorous control . |
| 18 | But if replication needs complex machinery , since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection , we have a problem . |
| 19 | Frost is the biggest killer as far as the size of crops harvested in Champagne is concerned . |
| 20 | Of course not all substances occurring in nature are benign . |
| 21 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
| 22 | But all were agreed that her insight into what it 's like to work in space was fascinating . |
| 23 | In the next scene Macbeth , speaking alone and with no need to deceive anyone ( given the convention in Elizabethan drama that what characters say in soliloquy is true ) , admits the evil of their ‘ deep intent ’ : Duncan is ‘ clear ’ , really has that freedom from guilt or stain that his wife had urged Macbeth to assume : in a sense he tries to do so here , in his defence of Duncan 's right to be treated with love and respect , and in his invocation of ‘ pity ’ , that constant test of humanity in Shakespeare . |
| 24 | Most events take about two hours and are normally limited to 20 places , so booking in advance is essential . |
| 25 | However , other services geared to improve the quality of life for the elderly or those newly discharged from hospital were unlikely to be funded . |
| 26 | The Microsoft memory manager included in DOS is good , but not that good . |
| 27 | Also included in coursework are class tests which may take the form of mid-module timed assessments or practical tests in laboratory classes . |
| 28 | Neither the airing cupboard nor the garden shed in winter are satisfactory . |
| 29 | The population reconstructions of Wrigley and Schofield ( 1981 ) support them and indicate that from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries fertility change was about twice as important as mortality in accounting for variations in population growth , and that declines in mortality were modest until the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Those clays in fact go right across the hillside there , and they cause a lot of problems because they slope inland , and over Ritchie Hill , coming out of Newhaven , the road there is nearly always during the winter months broken by cracks which open up , and has in fact been subject to considerable reconstruction this last summer . |