Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realisation that this illness could apply to anyone broke down the illusion that it only affects those who have dropped out of society . |
| 2 | He flew in three days ago and has become so accustomed to the highlife that he now refuses to leave . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 4 | Since the dividing line is somewhat hazy , check with your architect or other professional adviser that he/she fully understands the technical requirements . |
| 5 | And Bill loves the wildlife , he 's a dedicated bird- watcher although he hardly looks like it when servicing the huge polarizers that turn coal into a fine powder for burning . |
| 6 | Ethnomethodology is an organizational study of a member 's own knowledge of his ordinary affairs , of his own organized enterprises , where this knowledge is treated … as part of the same setting that it also makes orderable ( Garfinkel 1974 : 18 ) |
| 7 | THE CITY is in grave danger of being bullied into subscribing for shares in the water industry that it neither wants nor needs . |
| 8 | So we get Joseph Wright of Derby as early as 1780 painting Arkwright 's cotton mill by night — tiers of tiny yellow lights in the immemorial country darkness of the Derwent valley , the isolated forerunner of those tremendous galaxies of light that one now sees from the Pennine Moors after sundown . |
| 9 | Wengen 's skiing is extensive , but for piste skiers is mostly easy ; Murren is very limited , with one spectacular descent from the famous Schilthorn ; Zermatt has something for everyone and lots for experts , but to reach its full potential needs better snow than it often receives ; Saas Fee has an excellent glacier , but again needs abundant snow to provide much more than that — in particular , to satisfy better skiers . |
| 10 | ‘ And then we have an old lady , more or less an invalid so she never goes out , who thinks she saw someone climbing over the garden fence one night . |
| 11 | In recognition that nobody really knows how the broadband Asynchronous Transfer Mode market will develop , L M Ericsson Telefon AB has announced a system claimed to support networks of virtually any capacity or configuration . |
| 12 | Considerably more sacrilegious , albeit in a flippant way , is Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , " Of the cunt , which was made with a spade " , in which God is presented as having forgotten to give Eve genitals and then allowing the Devil to remedy this , on the condition that he neither adds to nor takes anything away from God 's creature . |
| 13 | For Leavis , Cambridge English offers a way forward for the discipline as a whole by virtue of its emancipation from " linguistic grinds " and Anglo-Saxon , but only on condition that it now becomes infused by a " general discipline " addressed to the growth of " intelligence and sensibility " . |
| 14 | A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out . |
| 15 | Just do n't enjoy Palace losing , but sheer football and it just shows you that ironically the two games can match each other and there were chances for Palace to wrap that game up . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's convinced he 's innocent of Angy 's murder and she only wants me to play detective and find the real killer ! |
| 17 | We belong to a dog club and someone there has suggested that this may be due to the fact that she is spayed . |
| 18 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 19 | This is a key issue in multimedia only because full motion , full frame video has been talked up by the industry until it even has its own acronym ( FMFFV or FFFMV , depending on preferences ) . |
| 20 | ‘ My daughter goes back to school this week after the half-term break and she really wants to know Penny is all right before she goes . |
| 21 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
| 22 | He opens his mouth and it almost spills out , the bitter refusal : no . |
| 23 | In addition , recruitment is a major activity in any personnel department and it frequently gives rise to administration problems of an essentially mundane nature which are , nevertheless , a major irritant as far as the personnel manager is concerned . |
| 24 | It could prove a very sound investment if he ever decides to sell it again . |
| 25 | Erm sometimes er I have n't mentioned much about the gender of the therapist but sometimes it can help a great deal if the therapist 's the same gender as the same person who 's undergoing therapy and it also helps if it 's er sometimes you ca n't very easily with some therapists , y'know it sometimes erm helps if it 's somebody you can trust and confide in and stuff like that and obviously , having met various psychiatrists and clinical psychologists , er quite a number of them are not people I 'd particularly like to talk about about being abused as a child . |
| 26 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |
| 27 | In a pop gothic mishmash that splices a superhero revenge drama with a hi-tech Phantom Of The Opera , Liam Neeson plays a scientist who invents an artificial skin which melts in the light and who then gets burnt to cinders by gangster psychopaths covering up big-city corruption . |
| 28 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 29 | That confusion if she ever brings her in work and she can take . |
| 30 | ‘ 1(1) A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it ; and ‘ thief ’ and ‘ steal ’ shall be construed accordingly . ’ |