Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr MacSharry , described as being ‘ difficult to get to know ’ , still works extremely hard and plays little . |
| 2 | Since the true wind is so strong , the apparent wind plays little part . |
| 3 | ( ’ Cardinal York' , as he became known , was a fervent believer in the Stuart cause and eventually called himself Henry IX , but plays little further part in the invasion story . ) |
| 4 | Our author is aware of these objections but , even though Christ plays little part in his religious vision , he does find a contemplative exemplar in the gospels in the story of Martha and Mary . |
| 5 | Doeringer distinguishes between three major divisions : a pragmatic approach in which theory plays little or no role although , as Eldridge ( 1975 , p. 7 ) has reminded us ‘ the pragmatists in emphasising the need for realistic solutions often carry a good deal of conceptual and theoretical baggage around with them ’ ; secondly , a Marxist approach , stressing class relations and conflict irreconcilability ; and , following Dunlop 's ( 1958 ) seminal work , the highly influential ‘ systems ’ model focusing on the rules of industrial relations and their determinants . |
| 6 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
| 7 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 8 | True to Reid 's claim that the debate jumped to solutions , we now find that a major response to economic decline and youth unemployment has been the Youth Training Scheme organised through the Manpower Services Commission of the Department of Employment , in which the school sector plays little part . |
| 9 | It just plays that horrible music . |
| 10 | Yeah but can we plays that tape so that everybody 's can hear ? |
| 11 | No , not everyone goes that way . |
| 12 | ‘ The other options are to fight in Europe or against another British fighter like Henry Wharton — but if Benn goes that way he would be offered money I would n't get out of bed for . ’ |
| 13 | And therefore it was wrong because the argument goes that liberalism and nationalism are the great triumphant er ideologies of the nineteenth century and the Vienna settlement 's not only wrong , but it was historically erm in a sense doomed because it was trying to oppose the growing erm unstoppable er ideologies of er erm of er of Europe . |
| 14 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 15 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 16 | " They say " There goes that Mrs Blake again . |
| 17 | I 'm not asking for a lesson on highway modelling particularly at half past four in the afternoon but what 's your reaction to what Mr said about the way in which your model would perform in other words on an all or nothing basis , when it 's shorter it all goes that way ? |
| 18 | So you dye it yellow and then you dye it blue and it goes that green . |
| 19 | if , you know if you 're not satisfied it goes that 's |
| 20 | She goes that 's probably why she was telling me to get the flat ones cos she wo n't get them on . |
| 21 | I 'm not pinching your socks , I 'm using me own white ones oh which is a pair here ? that one goes that 's a pair |
| 22 | just pushing it in and and if it goes that 's it , you , you want to question every thing |
| 23 | Goes that way . |
| 24 | Er , like this morning at break I walked , I walked straight past Peter right and er come up to me and he goes that 's not very nice is it ? |
| 25 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 26 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 27 | And you carry on straight all the way down there and just carry on straight , and then you come to umm a road that Kent House Road goes that way Kent House Lane or Kent House Road . |
| 28 | There goes that bloody dog . |
| 29 | But the story goes that money speaks , and some people , some parents , if they get hit in the pocket , will probably take more notice of their child , |
| 30 | One goes that way every other hour one comes through every other hour . |