Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which authority exercises them depends on local arrangements . |
| 2 | And it helps to know it happens to beautiful women , too . |
| 3 | Thus , a book explaining what goes into water-based coatings , and why , ought to be of interest both to the specialist coating technologist and to the industrial chemist . |
| 4 | Do you know what happens to old actors ? |
| 5 | The play is enlivened by the vicious energy of the performances and by a variety of Irish music and dance which ranges from mournful ballads to the jolliest of jigs , transforming what could have been a dreary harangue into an invigorating ensemble work . |
| 6 | Can anyone give me matchfacts from these games ? |
| 7 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 8 | The company says it abides by national guidelines and on matters of safety , commercial considerations are always secondary . |
| 9 | Language is made up of units that may be repeated sequentially ( e.g. papa ) or combined recursively ( e.g. Bill saw John in the car ) and so a way of recording competing interpretations is needed which distinguishes between different tokens of the same unit . |
| 10 | He explains : ‘ It is probably better to wait and see what happens with age-related rebates . |
| 11 | Pick up the phone , key in R star 1 , and you should be back talking , but with the other one , we 're just going to wait and see what happens after 75 seconds . |
| 12 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 13 | I know it comes in various shapes though , the tail 's very dark . |
| 14 | They pursue reliability just because they know it leads to lower costs and increased market share . |
| 15 | I have n't heard his album and I 'm sure it will be good , but I know he thrives on bouncing ideas off other people . |
| 16 | The UMIST computer was trained by feeding it details of 70 patients , such as pulse rate , temperature , age and data on previous heart problems . |
| 17 | Similarly , suppose one starts with two boxes , one containing oxygen molecules and the other containing nitrogen molecules . |
| 18 | I suppose it refers to those bands who need two or three goes to start every song . |
| 19 | and as the island burns he tells of two boys killed , and childish tears flow : |
| 20 | But in a series of remarks broadly encouraging to solicitors , Lord Mackay said the lay-dominated advisory committee would be likely to consider what happens in other countries where there was no enforced separation of the two functions . |
| 21 | Taylor and Walton note that sabotage can be difficult to define : at one end it merges with informal practices which become almost part of normal procedure , ‘ neither openly demanded nor openly questioned ’ , while in extreme cases sabotage may be identified with explicitly political violence . |
| 22 | The Middlesbrough businessman cited work commitments and the need for a clean break as his main reasons for deciding to call it quits after three years at the helm . |
| 23 | ‘ It is up to this meeting to decide what happens to those stocks , but we see no reason for Hong Kong to be penalised . ’ |
| 24 | I mean nobody pick him up on that , but I mean , he might mean in real terms with , I do n't think he has in real terms . |
| 25 | Finally , he comes to the conclusion that psychopathology plays no causative role in creativity , except in the choice of subject matter , and that where it does exist it stems from social causes ; for example the stress that the person of original mind experiences in being at odds with society . |
| 26 | Then on a Sunday night , the village , what they call wakes , they call them wakes in those days , not the village fair , it was the wakes . |
| 27 | In the first , a bill is passed which allows for certain actions to be taken , such as the establishment of a space agency , the construction of a national highway system , the provision of agricultural price supports , and so on . |
| 28 | After looking at Dragonfly we briefly discussed which riffs by other players had the same sort of feel , and ended up jamming our way through Hendrix 's Spanish Castle Magic , Manic Depression , Purple Haze and Voodoo Chile — also Clapton 's Forever Man and White Room . |
| 29 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 30 | I think it applies to both sexes . |