Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ? |
| 2 | Some industry watchers espouse the theory that says Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp picked on the COSE move as a way out of OSF and that OSF could eventually find itself with its funding terminated and its sponsors telling it it 's a for-profit software developer . |
| 3 | I regret the delay that has already occurred and shall watch with great interest the manner in which the Labour party mobilises its forces to support that measure . |
| 4 | Although I regret the reorganization that has brought about so many redundancies , I do feel it is necessary in the light of quality control . |
| 5 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 6 | The mower is lifted using two hydraulic rams which raise the drums and wheels in sequence to give a ground clearance of 450mm ( 18in ) . |
| 7 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have never enjoyed the business totally — I hate the artificiality that surrounds it . ’ |
| 9 | I mean the question that has to be faced is that when you talk about cutting the costs in local government you also have to talk about the services which councils deliver , and you ca n't get something for nothing . |
| 10 | You mean the sheet that has all the subjects ? |
| 11 | Submerged oxygenating plants replace the oxygen that has been lost in respiration . |
| 12 | Leave the vehicle electrics at 24 volt but replace the distributor and leads with normal Land Rover ones . |
| 13 | Is carrot fly the thing that goes for carrots or not ? |
| 14 | Animals of high status commonly provide the reassurance that stabilizes interaction , and relations between close kin clearly underlie most of the contacts that take place . |
| 15 | The reason for this is that the outflowing rivers provide the sand that makes them good beaches . |
| 16 | I will give him sharp orders , he thought , and bring him up on a short rein ; and I will see him come to terms , and kiss the hand that curbs him . |
| 17 | They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it . |
| 18 | To colour in a rectangle , you simply move the cursor on to it and then press the key that corresponds to the code for the colour you require . |
| 19 | Ehrlichman and Weinberger criticise the emphasis that has been placed on the first eye movements occurring after a question has been asked and the consequent ignoring of movements which occur prior to or during presentation of a particular item . |
| 20 | I rewrote the sentence as follows : ‘ Use Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , e.g. in dialogue , in a story or a play-script . ) ’ |
| 21 | If only for one short night , forget the ambition that gnaws unceasingly at thy soul — I say forget thy greatness and be a woman and — my wife . ’ |
| 22 | You push it in the stack , mist it round and pull it out like that ; and then smell the hay that comes out on its end . |
| 23 | I sense the drum that beats beneath the roots |
| 24 | We may all experience the compelling and sometimes painful quality of moonlight , or sense the darkness that surrounds us as a palpable presence . |
| 25 | Hobnobbing in TV circles he may even get to meet Richard Briars and solve a mystery that 's plagued him for years : Those voice-overs he does for ads on the telly , he always sounds so out of breath . |
| 26 | With her first fiction , then , Iris Murdoch joined the ranks of theorists who are part sceptical of theory ; and though her writings never lose the marks of a philosophical training , they suggest a training that has been lived and effectively outlived , a sense of theory turned questioning and whimsical . |
| 27 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |
| 28 | For the advertiser who is concerned as to whether he or she is getting a good deal from an agency or media specialist , companies such as Media Audits provide a service that compares the buying performance of different advertisers and their agencies in similar markets and media . |
| 29 | The activities of the sbcC and sbcD gene products have not been determined , but the available evidence suggests that they provide a nuclease that disrupts palindromic DNA ( 6 , 7 ) . |
| 30 | Goeres and Sedlmayr propose the sixfold combination of napthalenic C 10 units ; Wakabayashi and Achiba propose a mechanism that starts with the combination of napthalenic C 10 unit with a ring C 18 . |