Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also significant because critics of theism have sometimes claimed that theists wish their statements about God to be ‘ necessary ’ propositions — propositions whose denial involves a contradiction . |
| 2 | But the injury ca n't be mended and vets say she 'll have to be put down . |
| 3 | After three weeks ’ hard pounding , both administered and received , the melancholy of the Conservative campaign ‘ A-team ’ suddenly lifted and journalists attending their morning news conference were treated to a double act worthy of The Two Ronnies . |
| 4 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 5 | Once it was recognized that animals orient themselves in a variety of ways , the engineering approach was extremely successful in identifying the underlying mechanisms . |
| 6 | DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate . |
| 7 | Erm , you may have heard that vandals destroyed our community seat on the Long Dobbs Lane last week . |
| 8 | I think it 's sort of accepted that men need their leisure time you know , it 's vital to them to either get out to the pub or get their leisure time and it 's women that 's considered they do n't need it , they 're you know , I do n't think it 's se se se , considered as important . |
| 9 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 10 | Furthermore , most migrants defined themselves as English speakers : it must be said that Jamaicans consider themselves speakers of English , and are offended when ignorant English people inquire what their mother tongue might be . |
| 11 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 12 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 13 | The machine controls caused power to be applied and consequences to occur which resulted in changed readings on the instruments . |
| 14 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 15 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 16 | However , the success of recent policy initiatives can only be fully met if farmers find it their own interests to plant up pieces of land in such a way as to achieve both timber production and environmental improvement . |
| 17 | JACK KEARNEY , 70 , who was shot when Loyalists murdered his nephew in a butcher 's shop in Moy , Co Tyrone , three months ago , died yesterday in a Belfast hospital . |
| 18 | Their aim was to ensure that contracts were given and policies enacted which favoured their interests in making profits . |
| 19 | No warning was given and police say they face an impossible task in fighting this kind of terrorism . |
| 20 | It 's a feature that might come in handy when building an annual report : the user selects a field and chooses the added ‘ delegate ’ option from the menu , and can then send the spreadsheet to a colleague with the field highlighted and instructions to fill it in . |
| 21 | I said , I said thing is I said last time everybody thought Carla was gon na get highly commended or honours do you remember ? |
| 22 | would have thought that graduates find it more difficult to impart knowledge to people than anybody else . |
| 23 | I 'm told that humans prefer it that way . ’ |
| 24 | Queues formed hours before doors opened as parents took their children to see their 12-year-old hero in action . |
| 25 | The meat is not eaten and has no market value , but the dried eyes and the sexual organs of the boto are often sold as amulets to increase one 's attractiveness to the opposite sex , or to increase the bearer 's sexual powers . |
| 26 | Despite the considerable pressures on the churches at the central and top provincial levels in 1922 , sparse reverberations as yet reached that grass-roots base which was considered earlier . |
| 27 | And since it is generally recognised that managers cost their companies at least three times their annual salary , the scope for cost-saving is enormous . |
| 28 | However , as shopping still had to be done , schools reached and roads crossed whatever the road width or traffic volume , accident levels continued to rise and living environments to deteriorate . |
| 29 | The Army might take up men , but the effect on the labour market can be offset if women take their place in occupations like weaving . |
| 30 | A HEALTHY baby girl whose twin sister died mysteriously in hospital , had ended up severely brain damaged after doctors left her in the care of nurse Beverley Allitt , a court heard yesterday . |