Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 2 | More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there . |
| 3 | Cashiers ' keys which identify the cashier or shift which is printed on the folios ( bills ) vouchers and audit journals . |
| 4 | In many Endopterygote insects , more especially those whose eggs are deposited within plant tissue or in other concealed situations , the distal abdominal segments become attenuated and often telescoped to form a retractile tube or oviscapt which is used as an ovipositor . |
| 5 | The complainant may not know the precise details of the agreement or arrangement or conduct which is damaging its competitive interests in the market place . |
| 6 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 7 | On the way , he is chased , or fancies he is chased , by Police who hate him . |
| 8 | The act of giving birth strips away much of the personal life ; labouring women may cease to notice who is in the room , or to hear what is said . |
| 9 | So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving . |
| 10 | In this context , as elsewhere in this book , by ‘ desire ’ to do or have something is meant to ‘ want ’ to do or have something , which in its turn means to seek the satisfaction of responding to an urge . |
| 11 | When presenting his petition , a creditor should be owed a sum equal to or exceeding what is known as the bankruptcy level . |
| 12 | These may be very simple things , such as ‘ seeing ’ that a friend will be getting in touch shortly , or knowing what is coming in tomorrow 's post . |
| 13 | The public plays no part in this ‘ social construction ’ , it can do ‘ little more than accept or ignore what is transmitted ’ . |
| 14 | He sticks like glue , and thinks he is masking his intentions . |
| 15 | Like the horn and trumpet it is furnished with valves , but has four of these instead of three in order to give a complete chromatic scale from its fundamental note . |
| 16 | I am convinced that she has a good intelligence , and understands what is proposed as treatment . |
| 17 | For example , as the stick is moved forwards a little , the eyes see the nose of the glider moving down , and the brain expects the sensation and understands what is happening . |
| 18 | ‘ There must be an end to this double-dealing and deceit which is selling Scotland and its people short . ’ |
| 19 | I think we 've got to draw the line and say there is going to be a cost to our econ our ecology , if we allow it to run in the way the government have in mind . |
| 20 | The ZX Spectrum and Easy Programming attack the same problem area — what the hell do you do once you have unpacked your computer , tried to understand the manual , and realise it is written by people who seem to have forgotten that most of their readers will be neophytes ? |
| 21 | That is why to know him is to trust him , and to trust him is to begin to know ourselves . |
| 22 | The Governors control very much of the finances of the school and supervise what is going on . |
| 23 | Probably the only way to try and prevent it is to go into the schools and get people that have been through the proble , the problem theirselves to go into the schools and try and educate the kids to stay off drugs . |
| 24 | In any field of employment a successful application depends to some degree on the applicant 's being seen to say and do what is expected during the selection process , and to this extent conventional selection methods can always be faulted for the way they may presume that words uttered on a form or in an interview are reliable indicators of future performance . |
| 25 | Then Macbeth seems to have a change of heart and says he is leaving whether he becomes king or not to chance . |
| 26 | Sam claims her father breached the trust she placed in him and says he is holding on to her cash . |
| 27 | Meisel is beginning to direct videos and says he is losing interest in fashion as a subject : ‘ It all seems mediocre to me , uninspiring . |
| 28 | Pioneer Sparc cloner Opus Systems Inc , Mountain View , California , is finally calling it quits with whatever remains of its Sparc clone business and says it is retracting back to its SparcCard PC add-in boards ( UX No 343 ) . |
| 29 | The company promises to provide its corporate customers with early access to leading-edge technology and says it is solidifying relationships with the kind of partners that can provide extremely high volume manufacturing , capability and full global distribution . |
| 30 | SGS Thomson Microelectronics BV has a new 1M-bit M28F101 Flash memory device and says it is planning to sample a series of multi-megabit EPROM Flash memories this year . |