Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 2 | He likes them so much he even looks forward to being stuck at roadworks . |
| 3 | It sold more $500,000-plus machines in fourth quarter 1992 than the three previous quarters combined and looks forward to being able to use Pentium in its machines , because it says the new Intel Corp chip will reduce the gap between its machines and RISC in batch processing work . |
| 4 | The West German electorate lacks confidence in Chancellor Kohl and his team , but has yet to be convinced that the SPD , with whatever future coalition partner it chooses , will do much better . |
| 5 | Stirling has yet to be convinced even by Samuel 's figure . |
| 6 | Although Ian Wright will be included and is likely to get another chance , Taylor has yet to be convinced he is the right man to play alongside the Blackburn striker . |
| 7 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 8 | At the start , when you still have enough energy to argue if you can see Schiehallion or not , and your first piece of chocolate has yet to be unwrapped , the distant peak beckoning on the far side of the ridge is sensational . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the second strand to the Report that a Lending and Security Act be implemented to regulate commercial transactions has yet to be successful . |
| 10 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 11 | A person who is illegitimate may very well resent being called a bastard , although it happens literally to be true . |
| 12 | Art follows wealth , it was said , as it did in the city-states of the Italian Renaissance ; and it may continue to do so , even if the new patron happens now to be democratic and many-headed . |
| 13 | Ask him if he intends always to be faithful , and you 've get a 99.9 per cent change of him saying yes . |
| 14 | A diet rich in fibre tends also to be low in fat content because carbohydrate foods provide many of the calories . |
| 15 | Some of the signs , such as the quantity of berries on certain trees in autumn were for long-range forecasts , while still others could tell the weather for that very hour : ( The Shamrock is folding its garments before a heavy downpour ) is not only a picturesque saying but tends also to be accurate . |
| 16 | Thus , many deep-sea fish have puny bodies ( presumably an adaptation to the meagre food supply ) but they have huge heads , jaws , and teeth , as their prey — when it arrives — tends also to be large . |
| 17 | The literature in this area is fragmentary and tends either to be definitional or descriptive . |
| 18 | The strengths of the approach are clear : it gets away from being content-dominated and takes the teaching of skills seriously , especially skills of stilling , centredness and attentiveness . |
| 19 | The Seagram Grand National looks to be an ideal race for Royal Cedar , who jumps economically without being spectacular and never put a foot wrong here . |
| 20 | For some patients this seems superficially to be effective , but for men or women whose background or culture more readily allows them to express feeling , this is very difficult . |
| 21 | The fourth meaning appears to be a combination of the first and third meanings where non-sexual and sexual attraction are combined , and which seems also to be applicable to human beings only . |
| 22 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 23 | Many other companies , of course , are supporting environmental work but IBM seems almost to be unique in its corporate commitment to use of high technology for facilitating ‘ sustainable development ’ . |
| 24 | More importantly , Griffin seems either to be confused or just wrong about consciousness . |
| 25 | Pakistan 's military appears instead to be concerned with the country 's neighbour and traditional foe — India . |
| 26 | ‘ The factory seems currently to be booming and increasing its market share , ’ he said . |
| 27 | That some of this waste is unavoidable is probably true , for the aggressive instinct seems never to be satisfied with entirely impersonal objectives . |
| 28 | Symptomatic obstruction with a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis seems therefore to be diagnostic of malignancy . |
| 29 | I do n't know who parks there to be honest . |
| 30 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |