Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , it is not general practice to confirm or deny that nuclear tests are about to take place . |
| 2 | You will frequently see old headbands cracked or torn where ruthless fingers have hooked over them to wrench books from shelves . |
| 3 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 4 | The patent plant is discarded or replanted if still sound . |
| 5 | However , Dr Robert Runcie , the then Archbishop of Canterbury , claimed in the House of Lords ( 2 February , 1987 ) that ‘ there is no automatic trickling down process that ensures that increased wealth will benefit the poor . ’ |
| 6 | Our results are in agreement with those of thers who found that activated and non-activated macrophages and granulocytes relax vascular smooth muscle by release of NO that is synthesised from L-arginine by a stereospecific enzyme , NO synthase . |
| 7 | For all our , walking and talking and hard work . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're going to try and get that other door open , ’ she told me . |
| 9 | Many parts of them were distorted and crushed until most traces of life in them were obliterated . |
| 10 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 11 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 12 | The report was highly critical of the backbench committees and noted that meetings frequently overlap or are cancelled and rearranged and that attendance was low . |
| 13 | The Government are hoping that the election will have come and gone and that interest rates will go up to try to finance that PSBR . |
| 14 | Mini Tours have come and gone and low-key Satellite and Regional Tours are there for the young players who aspire to get on the main Tour . |
| 15 | Crawling around the balcony en route to the spiral staircase , the sounds of banging and sawing and general hullabaloo from below had become too curious-making to resist . |
| 16 | A manually-produced map can not be easily changed , whereas a computer-drawn map takes its data from a database ( as described in Section 2.4 ) ; this database can be readily edited and updated when new information becomes available , or amended when information becomes out of date , and a new map can then be automatically redrawn . |
| 17 | As he came , he blustered and snorted and black veins stood out in his forehead . |
| 18 | But it should be said at the outset that none of the terms ‘ check ’ , ‘ control ’ or ‘ render accountable ’ has a single clear meaning : there are several ways of checking and controlling and several types of accountability . |
| 19 | Yet , well organised and commanded as that enemy may have been , they were not invincible , as Edmund Ironside showed in 1016 . |
| 20 | People laughing and cheering and waving flags , riding on any available vehicle , twenty people draped over a taxi , bus bonnets crowded with people and thousands of happy pedestrians — every window open and crowded out with waving enthusiasts — and I saw no tears , no inkling of what was to come all over again . |
| 21 | He had pleaded guilty to two offences of driving while disqualified and two matters of no insurance . |
| 22 | Some of the safety precautions cyclists should consider when approaching or passing pedestrians on the towpath include : |
| 23 | After his meeting with Jorge Mas Canosa , leader of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation ( CANF ) , in late December [ see p. 38669 ] , the Russian Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozyrev was reported as saying that all aid to Cuba would be halted . |
| 24 | On March 31 , Sierra Leonean commanders were reported as saying that 2,150 men of the 3,000-strong national army had occupied part of Lofa County in Liberia . |
| 25 | The enthalpy change that occurs when one mole of solute is dissolved in a solvent to form an infinitely dilute solution is called the enthalpy of solution — or quite often the heat of solution . |
| 26 | There is a need on the part of the school to ensure that this is not a hasty decision , that it is in the best interest of the child and that it will not be a decision that parents will either want to reverse or repeat when any problem or difficulty arises . |
| 27 | The company says that striping and off-host processing of network protocols results in sustained network data rates in excess of 100Mbps , without significant mainframe CPU loading . |
| 28 | Providing information prevents a welfare cost E 'EF that arises when uninformed consumers use the wrong marginal valuation of the benefits of the good . |
| 29 | Stop if required or slow census point which is the ones we use . |
| 30 | With some pushing and shoving and much hilarity we changed and appeared in reasonably good order for our ten minute rehearsal time . |