Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those killed or injured were working men going peacefully about their lawful occasions , yet the terrorists did not hesitate to murder or maim them . |
| 2 | Checking or correcting is another procedure not usually engaged in unless directed to , but discussion of methods often produced a correction to the original wrong answer . |
| 3 | With Save & Prosper 's Guaranteed Stockmarket Bond , if shares go up you win and if they go down you get your money back . |
| 4 | The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real . |
| 5 | They are usually quite a mixed group , some of whom have had bad experiences at school or have been long term truants . |
| 6 | Since the Williams Report , the only books which have been prosecuted have either glorified illegal activities , such as the taking of dangerous drugs , or have been hard-core pornography lacking any literary pretension or sociological interest . |
| 7 | Changes over time to things that are seen and heard are powerful forms of stimulation for young infants , and the main purpose of the research is to explore systematically infants ' ability to detect and respond to such change . |
| 8 | They have gone through privatization and ceased being Civil Servants and gone out into the cold and now they are suffering this blow , so they do , I think , deserve the most generous possible treatment . |
| 9 | joined the Group with the acquisition of of Trowbridge in May 1978 and has been regional buyer for the north west region since March 1985 . |
| 10 | Curt Fredrikson founded the Swedish Debt Surveillance operation , and has been Managing Director of the Swedish wing of Justitia since 1985 . |
| 11 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 12 | United Distillers enjoys a commanding position in this market , with Dewar 's the number one brand overall , Johnnie Walker Black Label the number one de luxe , and Usher 's Green Stripe the number one locally-bottled Scotch . |
| 13 | Artists of the stature of Sendak and Keeping are visual explorers , never satisfied merely to repeat performances , even though those performances are outstanding . |
| 14 | Beginning , Resourcing , Believing and Remembering are four stages in the ‘ States of Man ’ , the imaginative brief set for the 1991 Smirnoff UK Fashion Awards which take place in June as part of a week of college fashion shows . |
| 15 | LOOK and LISTEN are key ideas . |
| 16 | agreed and accepted 's further comments and would report to his Division that these matters were under consideration by the National Education Committee . |
| 17 | It is distinct from non-data-ink , which can be erased without loss of information : gridlines and hatching are good examples . |
| 18 | Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them . |
| 19 | Tamas Vasary , a former Northern Sinfonia director of music , conducted and secured am impressive performance . |
| 20 | The only douceur which he asked for and obtained was 11 Downing Street . |
| 21 | Manualists , by contrast , believe that signing and fingerspelling are essential tools in the learning process and that lipreading and speech are , in any case , beyond the capacity of the majority of deaf and dumb children . |
| 22 | Weaving , crib-biting , biting ( general vice ) and kicking are typical vices . |
| 23 | Graham ( whose chapter on budgeting and allocating is essential reading ) reports a survey of 23 university libraries he carried out in 1985 , in which 14 of the library grants covered only non-staffing costs ( books , periodicals , binding and operational money ) , whilst the other nine included staffing , though usually with severe limitations on virement between staffing and other sub-heads . |
| 24 | Adding and subtracting are easier operations than multiplying and dividing . |
| 25 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 26 | Breaking and entering 's one thing , making off with essentials is another matter altogether . ’ |
| 27 | The evidence of actual bystanders of what they saw and felt is some evidence of what the hypothetical bystander would have been likely to feel . |
| 28 | An empirical orientation to change and a conditional relationship between governors and governed are long-standing characteristics of political life . |
| 29 | The ref was full of Christmas spirit and United 's top scorer was dancing with delight . |
| 30 | ( c ) Appropriation and obtaining are similar concepts . |