Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But parliament is far away , and the border of Wales is very near , and is there a soul in these parts who does not know that smuggling goes on day by day , and that life here would be impossible if it did not ? |
| 2 | D' you know that guy comes into my office about twice a day and perches on my desk like a bird of ill omen all ready to commiserate with me about my wretched lot ? |
| 3 | And he , you know , he 's not gon na know if Andrew goes through there and suddenly disappears and do n't come back through that door for |
| 4 | Do retailers think that Christmas ends on December 24 ? |
| 5 | ‘ It does seem rather an absurd idea , after all ‘ civil ’ covers the middle ground , and somehow I do n't think that area exists for us . ’ |
| 6 | Delay created by these reasons , both human and procedural , can prove extremely frustrating to the parties , most particularly to the plaintiff who will feel that delay amounts to a denial of justice . |
| 7 | They will not feel that principle discriminates against them . |
| 8 | How will I feel if Jonathan wants to be on TV when he grows up ? |
| 9 | NATO 's discomfort will grow if reform spreads to perestroika-resistant East Germany ; West Germany would be tugged harder towards neutrality and thoughts of re-unification . |
| 10 | Our balance of payments will never improve while trade continues to be a one-way traffic . |
| 11 | I hope they will still claim that rain belongs to them when people put in insurance claims for flood damage . |
| 12 | He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough . |
| 13 | Here , as often with the author of Thankyou , Fog , we may well suspect that Auden generalizes about English life too much on the basis of his own late-Edwardian childhood in a comfortable rentier household . |
| 14 | To understand Henry 's response , the reader must see that Henry has focused on Caleb 's mention of ‘ fires ’ , must see that Henry infers at once that the train is due , and must grasp the importance of the speaking verb . |
| 15 | Teachers often lament that pupils do not see and use links between different areas of the subject . |
| 16 | When the battery is first connected , the buzzer may sound if Q happens to be left high ( i.e. set ) due to the race condition mentioned earlier . |
| 17 | The doubter will never remember unless God works in his heart bringing a conviction of sin . |
| 18 | Not for nothing do rivals sourly suggest that MS-DOS stands for Microsoft Seeks Domination Over Society . |
| 19 | Club boss Dino Zoff said he would decide whether Gazza plays on Sunday an hour or two before the game . |
| 20 | However , jewellery may be stolen , cattle may die and grain deteriorates in quality with the passage of time , thus wealth in these forms is inherently risky and to a certain extent illiquid , i.e. not usually suitable for instant transfer or use . |
| 21 | But does this not mean that God has to be affected by what happens in the world and that the challenges and frustrations which the world 's freedom continually presents to Him force ever new responses from Him , so that He is continually changing ? |
| 22 | What does it mean when man gazes into a woman 's eyes , then lets his gaze drop to her cleavage ? |
| 23 | We know that this is so because the X-ray diffraction pattern , which shows the crystal lattice spacing , does not change when cellulose swells in water . |
| 24 | Once again , let us emphasise that Compact belongs to everyone . |
| 25 | Given what we have heard about Eli and his sons , and in the light , also , of those dark prophecies of doom , what message do those words convey as Israel goes into battle with Philistia ? |
| 26 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 27 | On travelling along the x axis to Quito a traveller would find that Libreville lies in the y direction . |