Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is one sharply defined grammatical prediction which does follow from this proposal : An adjective which does not share a referential locus with its head noun should be unacceptable in postnominal position , since assignment specifically applies the property of the adjective to the subject . |
| 2 | That 's probably overstating it , but certainly in its regional and local aspects we do deal with many environmental problems the geographers are familiar with . |
| 3 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 4 | I now realize that there are different kinds of Jews , ranging from the ultra-religious Chasidim who do dress like that , to Liberal Jews who do not recognize the holy nature of the Bible and who prefer to keep whichever laws they can rationalize . |
| 5 | One such case who did submit to continuous observation was reported from Ian Oswald 's laboratory in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 7 | After a bit we let go of each other . |
| 8 | However , although calcium caseinate is not soluble in water it does soften to some extent after soaking . |
| 9 | It turns out that the worms move at a rate which is unaffected by the intensity of illumination , but they change direction , to left or right , at a rate which does vary with light intensity . |
| 10 | To be sure , bitterness which did exist in some quarters between Protestants and Catholics both then and now has not affected Jews , thankfully . |
| 11 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 12 | The nature of the cellular changes responsible for tissue differentiation are not well understood , but at the cellular level they do qualify as hereditary changes : each kind of cell gives rise to its own kind at cell division . |
| 13 | What we do is provide them all er all of them with er a training course an awareness which does include on some with some companies two days out in the field . |
| 14 | It eventually arrives at a short recapitulation of the initial music which , in its turn , breaks into a closing ‘ burst ’ of music which does sound like late eighteenth-century wind music , but which is actually a stylistic pastiche . |
| 15 | Sir he does answer on conditional bail today . |
| 16 | There is thus little duplication of Mr Williamson 's earlier Knights of the Iron Cross , and the entries for the 14 men who do appear in both volumes have been subsequently expanded . |
| 17 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 18 | ‘ So , about the only thing we do have in common is … ’ she said , and hesitated as though she could think of nothing they shared . |
| 19 | ‘ So , ’ she said flippantly , ‘ about the only thing we do have in common ’ |
| 20 | There are many fat lesbians , but very few on ‘ the scene ’ , because those fat women who do go to lesbian clubs and bars are always in a minority and thus feel noticeable . |
| 21 | Of the land we do have to set-aside , only about 40 per cent would receive compensation , compared to two thirds in France , and 93 per cent in Greece . |
| 22 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 23 | Thirty seconds is to produce a film that 's a long time we did talk about seven second slots as well |
| 24 | One fact we do know about this versitile act is that 1148 ( Penarth ) ATC each year provide tremendous help with the branch Wings Appeal . |