Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I know that today 's announcement will be a disappointment for them , and that those on the Tyne recognise that the response to all that they asked for previously was fair play .
2 If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic .
3 Yeah , and then the idea is the verb you plug in there , whatever then you plug in there is fine .
4 Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present .
5 A photographer has to really be aware of this , and how light relates to colour and how it relates to black and white .
6 The first one just understand it , you want to actually be able to do it .
7 She was convinced the defector he referred to vaguely was important and Urquhart was her only source of information about him .
8 But at last there was a kind of to and fro between them , more like a tennis match perhaps than a genuine conversation , with words being patted back and forth , but Rose at least was grateful for it .
9 The defendants also contended that the lease provided for payment of a rent which pro tempore at least was illegal under the Counter Inflationary ( Business Rents ) Order , or , if the court found against them in that , then it was illegal under the Counter-Inflation Act , 1973 , s 17 .
10 The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election .
11 Now the object of a handful of inquiries into influence-peddling and the mismanagement of taxpayers ' money , the EPA has at least been able to claim that its science is pure .
12 He believed there was a future for Swanage and therefore he had striven for a great number of years to improve it — ( laughter ) — but he was very glad that those who came from afar were pleased and satisfied .
13 This shows , for instance , that the element most closely related to extremely is fast : these two are co-constituents of the adjective phrase construction .
14 ‘ The Banks set out to break your Association , What they did was wrong and some of the things done since then are wrong ’ , said Mr. Peter Cassells , General Secretary to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions addressing the Biennial Delegate Conference of the IBOA at the Burlington Hotel on Saturday 24th April 1993 .
15 Still reeling from its ACE nightmare , MIPS 's market presence is seen to only be significant through its OEMs , according to the report .
16 ‘ I wish he 'd at least been honest with me and I could have divorced him .
17 The dolls he was looking at now were old and battered , their clothes colourless and torn .
18 ‘ On the telephone you sound like there is big trouble , ’ the Corsican said .
19 Well that dress Sophie 's got in there is lovely !
20 That dress Sophie 's got in there is lovely !
21 A lot of countries do n't have control over their own economies , they do n't have control over things like whether of not people are going to have jobs , whether or not people are going to make a livelihood , whether or not people are going to even be able to live in the country , because in Ireland something like 1000 people a week are leaving the country in order to get work .
22 I would not buy this from a retailer , as it tends to be very expensive there , but from the Cornish Bogwood Company , who seem to invariably be present at all the major shows .
23 But she 'd got to have her family backing , I mean er , in fact she 'd got to really be middle class , at least ,
24 And if you look at there are certain er types of people in history who use very non-symmetrical hand gestures who perhaps you might say were not the most open communicators in the world
25 a tendency to be based on what you can read and what you understand of today 's social problems , I mean every thing we 've had so far apart from the industrial revolution and the history behind it
26 Sport now , and starting with today 's main local story , Hans Nielsen will once again captain the skull Oxford Cheetas , who are supported by Fox F M.
27 The way people talk over here is pure poetry and nobody is really using that in songs so I thought I 'd have a go . ’
28 With the trigrams however the graph appears to still be ascending quite rapidly , suggesting that a larger corpus will discover many more trigram transitions .
29 ‘ We are disappointed but we intend to still be involved in the debate .
30 But the decisions referred to above are helpful to demonstrate that both at law and in equity it has long been recognised that an influence may be subtle , insidious , pervasive and where religious beliefs are involved especially powerful .
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