Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Andrew 's was the funniest where he just jumps up , goes woof |
| 2 | ‘ Either that or she just does n't fancy me , even I admit that possibility . ’ |
| 3 | There is so much evidence Of this that it hardly needs restatement here , nor does its corollary that the present tropical belt is atypically narrow . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , he has asked me to make it clear that he strongly supports the case that I seek to make . |
| 5 | He does note , in the letter to Zasulich , Morgan 's hope for a future society , which would abandon the obsession with private property , but at the same time he makes it clear that he rightly does not consider Morgan a socialist or a revolutionary . |
| 6 | It is not clear that she currently has any diplomatic status , though there is some evidence that the United Nations may still for some purposes recognise her ambassadorship . |
| 7 | The opinion makes clear that it also applies to ‘ defined-contribution ’ schemes , in which an employee makes payments into the scheme and gets a pension reflecting the returns on his or her cash . |
| 8 | Making it clear that it really does recognise that the only way to revitalise its languishing business units is to hire outsiders for some of the key positions , IBM Corp late Friday announced that as well as making its AdStar Inc storage unit a wholly-owned subsidiary , it had hired industry veteran Ed Zschau , System Industries Inc founder and one-term Republican representative , to be its chairman and chief executive — and an IBM vice-president , relegating the unit 's former general manager Ray AbuZayyad to the post of president and chief operating officer . |
| 9 | Meantime , the agreement under which Encore Computer Corp may switch to the Alpha from the Motorola Inc 88000 that it presently uses is apparently not a done deal yet . |
| 10 | This usage is now so prevalent that it hardly conveys anything more than the best that could be imagined . |
| 11 | But the men themselves , who call it ‘ the muppet shop ’ , remain unconvinced that it really has anything to offer . |
| 12 | Indeed , he has subverted the stake-in-the-heart , garlic-and-cross myth and has become so popular that he now has his own New Orleans-based fanclub . |
| 13 | Some of the craters look so fresh that one almost expects the rocks still to be warm . |
| 14 | Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period . |
| 15 | ‘ How do you know this if she never speaks ? ’ |
| 16 | And if I had n't met the people I 've met , I think I 'd 've been a very frustrated person cos erm , even though you can think of something , un unless , if you have other people you can go , if you say to somebody you could say , oh God , you know let's do this and this and this , or I think , really think this or this and someone else goes yes I do |
| 17 | Bernard Butler knows this and he hardly seems surprised . |
| 18 | O'Connell says the company was proud to say that it had won Posix-compliance and it now hopes to gain X/Open 's XPG branding . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm interested if it actually exists , ’ he said . |
| 20 | like , she 's coloured right , but she 's a bit portly and she just smells to be quite honest ! |
| 21 | Everyone will be embarrassed and it rarely helps . |
| 22 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 23 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 24 | Then there is a rather unseemly scramble , with London social services authorities passing the children from one place to another until somebody finally accepts our responsibilities under the Children Act 1989 . |
| 25 | But exploitation produces conflict and it is because of the conflict inherent in each stage of development that history is the unfolding of a drama in which we move from one kind of society to another and which ultimately leads to socialism . |
| 26 | No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it . |
| 27 | Under the legislation , which has Government backing , it will become an offence to carry a knife in public unless it specifically relates to work , religion or national costume . |
| 28 | The outcome is a proposed model of assessment which we believe is sound but which now needs to be interpreted and applied in the different single and multidisciplinary settings . |
| 29 | ‘ Participation ’ is another but it also has other sources . |
| 30 | Which is interesting because he also tells me that his father expected him to follow him to Cambridge University . |