Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , the whole business has been carefully planned , even though the other disciples seem not to have been privy to the arrangement . |
| 2 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 3 | ‘ The rumours that Madhuri will shortly settle down as a housewife and give up acting are pure lies , ’ said Sanjay . |
| 4 | Although the cultural traditions and education and social systems in OECD member countries vary there has been wide agreement about the importance of transition and the nature of the process . |
| 5 | The Rutland jurors swore on 7 December 1299 that all the vills and lands outside the bounds they then set out had been afforested in the time of King John . |
| 6 | The young people , in particular , as they become better educated are reluctant to work the land — which is very hard work for a low income . |
| 7 | In particular workers may come to the conclusion that their real wage rate is fluctuating procyclically ( this surmise may , in fact , turn out to have been erroneous , but that is another story ) : when prices are rising more rapidly than previously , workers suspect that the real wage rate has also risen . |
| 8 | The last stay here had been brief ; perhaps it would be the same this time . |
| 9 | What will it be When that the wat'ry palates taste indeed Love 's thrice-repured nectar ? |
| 10 | Newspapers that do not change are likely to be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 11 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
| 12 | The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English . |
| 13 | So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability . |
| 14 | An impression has undoubtedly gained ground — which I do not think is fair to the Wolfenden Committee — that the Committee desired to legalise homosexual conduct . |
| 15 | ‘ We are trying to turn around a situation we do not deny is difficult , ’ admits one Ferruzzi executive . |
| 16 | Israelis , used to instant retaliation , do not like being sitting ducks . |
| 17 | Similarly , health and safety legislation can be designed to protect workers from agreeing to work in conditions which they do not realize are unsafe . |
| 18 | I do not recall being frightened , although I should have been . |
| 19 | Artists do just stop being able to do it . |
| 20 | I 've gone to the local Council and er unfortunately they 've said to me that I 'd have to go on a waiting list ; the housing aid have said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast which I 'm sorry to say I do n't think is suitable to bring two children up in . |
| 21 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 22 | It 's we , we should n't accept anything that you know , we , we do n't think 's correct ! |
| 23 | Which we do n't think 's fair . |
| 24 | Now , what we do n't want are detailed particulars of the shop , the salesperson 's home address and physical attributes . |
| 25 | And one thing we do n't want is extra work . |
| 26 | I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’ |
| 28 | , we 'll get some of those , I 'll put them in , in the trolley , come on , now Charlotte please do n't start being naughty , do n't start . |
| 29 | It is worth checking your essay to make sure that you are not presupposing things which you do n't believe are true , and that you are n't hiding anything in a presupposition which needs to be made explicit and justified . |
| 30 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |