Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [det] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the public wants to know that all those people , and their families , who suffered in the war will be looked after for the rest of their lives . ’ |
| 2 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that he has listened to hon. Members and representatives of people with disabilities who are worried that the additional room or larger property that they need to accommodate their disabilities might take them into a higher band and that he has decided that any such people should fall within one band lower than would otherwise be the case ? |
| 4 | However , X-ray analysis has shown that all these forms of carbon consist of small graphite-like crystals . |
| 5 | In the subsequent paper ( Yurtsever , 1989 a ) , he has shown that these same conclusions are also reached in the case when the polarization of the approaching waves is arbitrary . |
| 6 | Through a spokesman , New York City 's Commissioner of Cultural Affairs has denied that any such list exists , although the thought of museums cannibalising a moribund New-York Historical Society has brought fierce criticism in the press . |
| 7 | At their recent meeting the Parish Council were disturbed to find that both these bills have increased substantially . |
| 8 | It seemed to say that all this inconvenience had ended well and she , Mrs Browning , had after all gained more than she had lost . |
| 9 | I do not want to suggest that all this work fell into such simple methodological traps as that I have described above , though I suspect that much of it did . |
| 10 | The slow evolution of select committee work has helped to ensure that both these obstacles have been surmounted . |
| 11 | But as time goes on , you begin to realise that all these things do tie in . ’ |
| 12 | We thought you might have guessed that all those announcements by the terrorists were a lie and really — ‘ |
| 13 | ‘ It must be terrible for her , ’ Joe went on , ‘ her son gone missing and all this stuff about him on the radio and television . ’ |
| 14 | The government thought it had solved the problem by ruling that , in disputed cases , ‘ important ’ investment needed to create jobs should be allowed to proceed and that former owners would have to accept compensation . |
| 15 | To avoid the problems encountered with ICI , NIREX had ensured that all these sites were in sympathetic ownership . |
| 16 | You might start complaining that all these changes are happening too rapidly for comfort . |
| 17 | Moreover , as the public themselves come to recognise that many more votes are being " wasted " and that their votes bear little relation to the final result in the constituency or the country , so declining turnout and public disaffection will increase in a way which will really threaten the legitimacy of the whole system . |
| 18 | I am tempted to think that some such process is involved in the development of repeated structures , such as the segments of a worm , or a flower 's petals , or the stripes on a zebra . |
| 19 | But others , who were more constitutionally minded than he , had begun to feel that any such remedies , to be truly effective , must ultimately have the sanction of law . |
| 20 | Whereas in the past Catholic teaching had implied that all such matters should be left to God , however large a family one already had , the Council affirmed that ‘ parents themselves should ultimately make the judgement ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 50 ) as to whether or not they should have further children . |
| 21 | We have seen that any such claim about the distribution of wealth could not have been and can not today be legitimately sustained . |
| 22 | Unless you have lots of tanks to check or you keep and breed Discus , Rams or maybe Uaru , you have to question if all this fuss is any more convenient than a tube and tablet kit . |
| 23 | As for boffin , although the Oxford English Dictionary states that its etymology is unknown , I have conjectured that this same purist Huxley may inadvertently have been responsible for it . |