Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astonishingly the Commission failed to realize that its proposed ratio of one additional member for three constituency members would be inadequate . |
| 2 | These are features that simple word processors were never designed to incorporate but which low-end desktop publishing packages find simple . |
| 3 | The argument presented here is that in the latter part of the twentieth century more and more capitalists have come to believe that their objective interests are best served through transnational practices , as evidenced by the phenomenal growth of the presence and influence of the TNCs outside the hegemon countries , and what I am describing as transnational capitalist classes . |
| 4 | Markby joined her on the further side and they both stopped to watch as their bovine companions lumbered up and stood in a row staring at them expectantly , tossing muddy heads . |
| 5 | But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) . |
| 6 | Extinction might be expected to occur if your local pub stopped selling your favourite drink . |
| 7 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 8 | Neither Haig nor Kendall plans to sleep before their second night shift begins at 6pm . |
| 9 | Did he not choose to retreat when his old enemy Rennenkampf was advancing ? |
| 10 | Neither referred to their parents or seemed to realise that their present life was coming to an end — Victoria too young , Jonathon too preoccupied . |
| 11 | Even his visitor , insensitive as she was , seemed to realise that her continued presence was not altogether welcome . |
| 12 | Suffice to say that his repeated harking-back to the subject did not please those islanders who considered the issue long since laid to rest . |
| 13 | At the same time , the people who create these contexts , the teaching practitioners , are often made to feel that their own experience as pedagogic providers is not given sufficient recognition but is , on the contrary , misprized as lacking in rigour : wisdom which leads to understanding is overridden by knowledge which leads to explanation . |
| 14 | ‘ It will be enlightening to see if his new-found honesty runs to incriminating himself in any way , ’ observed Amiss . |
| 15 | They were losing and she knew they were going to lose and their last bloke was coming in and she was cheering them on . |
| 16 | Does he agree that if the distribution of Government grant were seen to be fair , local residents would not only be able to assess the performance of local authorities but would begin to see that our new council tax is a far better deal than the uncosted return to the rates — or , even worse , the uncosted local income tax — proposed by the Opposition parties ? |
| 17 | As a consequence , young Shetland married couples seem to presume that their best options are to await council housing or build houses on one spouse 's kinfolk 's land . |
| 18 | But Joan ventures where few other dog owners would dare to tread and her marvellous Labrador , Beth , has scars to prove it . |
| 19 | They begin to assume that their ageing parents are never satisfied , and may eventually conclude that it might be better to do nothing at all for them . |
| 20 | I am pleased to say , therefore I would like to propose that her Royal Highness be re-elected with acclaim , President of the Royal Yachting Association . |
| 21 | What was going to happen when her little jaunt in France was over , for instance ? |
| 22 | interest tax relief , it 's M I D A S right , so let's not start talking about the benefit of public sector housing and to show the financial illiteracy of of of what 's actually been proposed if you understand the government regulation about the ring fencing o of of of the housing revenue account and and the way in which housing benefit is now having to be subsidised by those other council house tenants then what 's actually going to happen when your poor people inhabit those houses , those public sector houses and they need the housing benefit that David 's been talking about . |
| 23 | But here 's a thought for both men : there are times when a nation has to be persuaded to do something that it does not want to do because its future welfare demands it . |
| 24 | the date on which they intend to leave and their next destination . |
| 25 | She never ceased to regret that her own family had been scattered while she was still so young , and when , in 1787 , the five Wordsworth children were briefly reunited , they returned constantly to a single theme . |
| 26 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 27 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 28 | They assumed that their arrests had been a political move and began to suspect that their continued detention had equally a political motive . |
| 29 | If he did , he was bound to conclude that his vital interests were at stake . |
| 30 | She began to understand that her working clothes had not just to be fashionable but also to cope with the vagaries of walkabouts , the intrusion of photographers and her ever-present enemy , the wind . |