Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The block surface is ignored as the cylinder is initially checked to establish that it successfully passes through the negative surface defining the interior boundary around the hole . |
| 2 | You might be surprised to find that it only means an increase in activity of fifteen percent of what you 're currently doing , to achieve something that 's in year three , that you 've got as year three , and you might think , ooh , that 's what I 'll do for year two . |
| 3 | GRAHAM TAYLOR woke today to find that he still has at least one friend after the worst week of his life . |
| 4 | Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points . |
| 5 | Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points . |
| 6 | He has often told friends he would like to write and he obviously has the creativity that could be adapted to another form of expression . |
| 7 | Julie was co-director of an information technology firm she helped to establish and which now employs 25 people . |
| 8 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 9 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 10 | In taking this position , the bishops were also following the lead of Pope John Paul II who , on his visit to Ireland in 1979 had argued : ‘ Divorce , for whatever reason it is introduced , inevitably becomes easier and easier to obtain and it gradually comes to be accepted as a normal part of life ’ ( 1979 ) . |
| 11 | In order that the CAA and AAIB can decide on appropriate action , they need to know whether anyone else has had a similar failure or found signs of overheating on one of these units and not told them about it . |
| 12 | It is a report and valuation for mortgage and insurance assessment which is usually done in half an hour and consists of a general look at the property to see that it actually exists as described , and is not in a state of collapse or major disrepair . |
| 13 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 14 | It would not be an exaggeration to stress the extent to which the nouveau roman has dictated the terms of critical discourse , nor to state that it still acts as the essential reference point in any definition of postmodern aesthetics . |
| 15 | The caveman 's body begins to sweat and it thus becomes wet and slippery . |
| 16 | The first idea is refined into a hypothesis by collecting more evidence to see if it really works , and ultimately it may be elevated into the rather grand status of a Theory , if successful predictions can be based upon it . |
| 17 | He looks up , surprised , then glances round to see if anyone else has noticed . |
| 18 | His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community . |
| 19 | If these ideas are taken together , and if three centuries of physics and chemistry are taken as the model to emulate , it is tempting to suggest that it really does not matter what the actors on the international scene have in their minds . |
| 20 | Hence , although acquaintance with ourselves seems probably to occur , it is not wise to assert that it undoubtedly does occur . |
| 21 | I am especially pleased to hear that he now supports the tests introduced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science . |
| 22 | I am cynical enough to suspect that it probably happens , and it vividly illustrates the point about equipment improving while its net effectiveness stands still ( and its costs increase ) . |
| 23 | Therefore , if you are confronted with a rug decorated in an intricate and curvilinear floral-inspired scheme , it is reasonable to assume that it probably originates from a workshop group in one of the limited number of countries which specialize in these designs . |
| 24 | This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording . |
| 25 | ‘ All the facts seemed to fit and he even looks like Ben . |
| 26 | There is a danger that a freelance programmer will try to hold his client to ransom if he later realizes that the value of the software he has produced is out of all proportion to the payment he received for writing it . |
| 27 | What matters is that they find the system simple to use and it certainly simplifies the practitioner 's lot . |
| 28 | He kills it eventually , he shoots it with this like hypodermic pistol to try to put it to sleep and it just explodes ! |
| 29 | Well everyone has , everyone is entitled to vote and he also thinks that if the time is right when unmarried women were property and he thought it would n't be long before married women to hold property too , so he was also he wanted to reform the Married Women 's Property Act . |
| 30 | Bozo stares up and down the road and wonders what to do before he finally fixes his bleary gaze where I hoped he would , and trudges away towards the phonebox . |