Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service . |
2 | As other studies have shown that working class people suffer most from ill-health and also use health services less effectively than others , the research investigates three small samples of such people in three different areas : East London , Birmingham and Leeds . |
3 | Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable . |
4 | After the working day they sit down to supper and the master sets the tasks for the morrow : Quoth Maister — Lads , work hard I pray , Cloth mun be peark 'd next market-day , And Tom mun go tomorn to t'spinners , And Will mun seek about for t'swingers ; And Jack tomorn , by time be rising , And go t'sizing mill for sizing , And get your web and warping done That ye may get it into loom . |
5 | Blowflies winter also as maggots or pupae in carcasses ; butterflies and moths probably winter only as larvae or pupae . |
6 | In Chapter 4.4 , ‘ On the Dole ’ , Coffield takes issue with some ( relatively optimistic ) views of youth unemployment expressed elsewhere by Roberts that young people suffer less from unemployment than do adults . |
7 | They chatter together like fiesty and excited skunks , and look constantly for the opportunity to move in . |
8 | His standard campaign speech is full of promises to expand the police force , crack down on crime and unite the city 's various ethnic groups . |
9 | If we concentrate only on Japan and the East Asian NICs , the choices , although somewhat inchoate between national strategies , do appear to have some common elements oriented towards re-casting the organizational and industrial relations arena in terms consonant with those which marked the 1980s revival of neo-conservative liberal analysis . |
10 | The majority of the court , while dismissing many of the arguments that had found favour in Re Anschuetz and earlier cases , did little to advance the position from that reached by the Court of Appeals in Re Anschuetz . |
11 | I have no commercial gallery and I sell only through commissions and the Royal Academy ; moreover having always had a teaching job , I have no real need to sell . |
12 | This morning I rank somewhere beneath paedophiles and muggers of old ladies . |
13 | The kind of attention that we usually associate with love or hate , and at the same time an acute awareness of limits , of closed worlds , of helplessness , of traps of unsatisfiable longing — the sort of awareness that we associate rather with pity or fear . |
14 | They planned to visit the Rockies and fly on to Vancouver and then down into the States . |
15 | Their eyesight is remarkable in poor light , so they hunt mostly at dawn and dusk . |
16 | Add the courgettes , cover , and cook slowly for 4–5min until all the vegetables are soft . |
17 | It became , indeed , an expression of class confidence , both against the immoral aristocracy , and against the masses , apparently denied the joys of family life and prone to sexual immodesty , and vice , ‘ fit only for sleep or sensual indulgence ’ , as W. R. Greg put it firmly . |
18 | If we genuinely believe everyone to be entitled to education , then we must reject the aristocratic distinction between an education fit only for workers and one fit for philosopher-kings ; but we Must equally reject the new assumption that only those who are receiving a scientific education are being ‘ properly ’ educated ; the rest , those who are studying arts , being relegated to the position of drones or parasites to be , at best , tolerated , and seen as ‘ enriching ’ themselves . |
19 | Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’ |
20 | Visitors fly in from Iceland and Northern Europe over the winter and numbers increase greatly . |
21 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
22 | Wasps also make nests filled with combs of hexagonal cells , but they build not with wax but with paper . |
23 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
24 | Like pubescent first-timer thirteen-year-olds , they are to be avoided if you want more from life than cheap betrayals . |
25 | But then they fly off to Stockholm and have a couple of drinks . |
26 | Interestingly , Cole ( 1979 , 238 ) suggests that the low rates of Japanese satisfaction are due to the fact that they expect more from work than other nationalities ! |
27 | Coyne will be fully recovered by the time The Godfathers head off for European and American dates by the end of the month , but the British dates can not be rescheduled until early autumn . |
28 | Hill farmers are primarily stockmen who delight more in animals than in machinery , buildings , or cash crops . |
29 | Most of the airmen and women fly home in January but some say they have been here so long that this is their home , they 'll be staying in England . |
30 | Most of us produce a single design each year which we send both to calligraphers and non-calligraphers alike . |