Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 2 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 3 | It is actively supported by a small part of the population , and tacitly tolerated by many more , out of either fear or a simple desire not to be involved in a political battle . |
| 4 | ( See Types of Income ) Choices have to be made about what counts as income , and then further decisions are required to determine whether to sue gross income or disposable income , income before or after housing costs , and whether the average used is an arithmetic mean or a ‘ median ’ or mid-point in the distribution . |
| 5 | Letters requiring a personal reply must be accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelop or a self addressed envelope and international reply coupons . |
| 6 | I suggest that a simpler approach to detecting the direction of motion of an object , one method of which was put forward by M Kumaran in July , is to use half a 74LS74 D-type flip-flop , as shown in the diagram , which performs exactly the same function . |
| 7 | ‘ My initial inquiries suggest that a figure of significantly less than 10 per cent is a real possibility , ’ Mr Pulman said . |
| 8 | For Hutchison 's managing director , and other investors in Hong Kong , such shifts suggest that a prolonged power struggle may be underway . |
| 9 | This is a result that is much easier to account for if we suggest that a body clock is responsible for the alternation between sleep and activity . |
| 10 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 11 | These characteristics suggest that a number of preconditions are necessary before the addition of Rhizobium to either plant or soil will be effective in promoting nitrogen enhancement . |
| 12 | However , note that Rhind et al. ( 1989 ) suggest that a Universal Geographic Information eXecutive ( UGIX ) can be created to interface between the user and a wide variety of different systems . |
| 13 | But they hardly suggest that a major structural change has taken place . |
| 14 | Occasional reports suggest that a single ailing individual can precipitate a mass stranding : whales are often reluctant to leave their comrades particularly if the sick animal is the leader of the group , and they may strand themselves rather than depart . |
| 15 | And only in a minute fraction of the actual collisions does theory suggest that a W particle will be produced ; many different processes compete to take place each time a proton and antiproton meet . |
| 16 | Taken together , these facts suggest that a genetically susceptible individual must be exposed to some environmental factor in order to succumb to the disease . |
| 17 | I suggest that a few moments here on deck will suffice . ’ |
| 18 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 19 | Various airline industry estimates suggest that a one minute delay in scheduled aircraft departure costs between £130 and £750 . |
| 20 | Dicta referred to above suggest that a court is entitled , indeed , obliged to be satisfied that there has been enactment by the monarch with the advice and consent of Lords and Commons ( except in the case of the Parliament Act procedure dealt with above , pp.98–9 ) . |
| 21 | These results seem promising , and suggest that a simple interdisciplinary programme involving little added staff time can have valuable results for patients . |
| 22 | For instance , it is estimated that around 1m of the 1.7m new jobs forecast for the mid 1990s will be in the professional and managerial areas , and demographics suggest that a substantial proportion of them will have to be filled by women . |
| 23 | Whereas the test designers suggest that a teacher without specialist knowledge might give the test as a screening device to identify the existence of articulation problems , the analysis of the nature of the errors and the appropriate forms of intervention ought to be left for an expert in phonological analysis . |
| 24 | As far as the script recognition system is concerned , the cases which suggest that a word is an error , are where the lexical look-up gives no allowable candidate strings , or all candidate strings are rejected by further stages of analysis . |
| 25 | The results of our complex segregation analysis suggest that a major dominant gene is present in about 10% of patients with ulcerative colitis . |
| 26 | These results suggest that a high proportion of the microorganisms living in the concretion survive by anaerobic respiration such as Fe(III) or sulphate reduction . |
| 27 | As Lane points out , surveys suggest that a majority of temporary workers actually opt for temporary status by choice , but nevertheless a large proportion are in fact disadvantaged since they lack the benefits which attach to permanent positions . |
| 28 | Reviewed in the light of these population shifts , the findings in subjects with phenylketonuria suggest that a high proportion of early treated subjects — not just a poorly managed minority — exhibit some degree of intellectual impairment and that the major impact is in early childhood before there is any question of relaxing or stopping treatment . |
| 29 | Mandler and Johnson ( 1977 ) suggest that a story grammar , in which elements ( such as setting , event , episode , consequence and resolution ) are combined according to a set of implicit rules , offers a mechanism for answering many of these questions . |
| 30 | Women 's vision of their future in a new society is closely related to their own experiences and education and whether they have been in touch with the women 's movement outside of El Salvador , Some suggest that a new society will bring an end to the repression , the constant fear , the torture , the deaths and disappearances , It will mean they can return home , either leaving the refugee camps in San Salvador or ending their enforced exile abroad , to start to rebuild their homes in the knowledge that the army will not descend on them again . |