Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun] [vb base] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |
| 2 | Kipling and Elgar need never have been . |
| 3 | When miners , chemical workers or railwaymen do actually defy the ban and strike this winter , he will need to be reminded or disaster will ensue . |
| 4 | for the central ideas of structuralism and post-structuralism do indeed spring from the study of language as the human way of ordering experience . |
| 5 | For a pilot , it is perhaps one of the most agreeable settings in which to ply his profession — even though fog , gales and ice do sometimes demand the limits of his skills . |
| 6 | In spite of problems with the data , a number of themes and trends do however emerge . |
| 7 | While deprecating such tactics as not being in the spirit of scientific inquiry , nevertheless Johanson and others do quickly get around to innuendos about Kalb 's sources of finance . |
| 8 | Gide 's narrative of a development from the desire for self-redemption in the space of the other , through the loss of self at the ecstatic height of this existential quest , to the unresolved sense of desire itself as a kind of loss , is amenable to a similar analysis ; in Gide 's case image and fantasy do indeed figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious . |
| 9 | For once a Government minister should accept that ethics and accountability do still have some meaning in British democracy . ’ |
| 10 | Stevedoring is provided by Larne Harbour Limited and it is the company 's proud boast that customers need only make one phone call to complete their requirements . |
| 11 | The debate is now largely ‘ old hat ’ in the sociology of education and there is a general consensus that schools do indeed impart values , but these are usually modified or developed versions of already existing dominant values of the society of which they form a part , including a number of parental values . |
| 12 | The fact that Governors need only pay £20 flabbergasted me … anyone desiring the privilege of that title should certainly be asked to contribute £50pa . |
| 13 | ( Leeds and Huddersfield do no have furniture services ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps one agrees that expansion of the money supply and inflation do often go together but refuses to accept it as significant unless told why . |
| 15 | Sin and sex do somehow go together and this seems to tie in with the distinction I made much earlier on between the scientific view that man differs from other animals only in degree and the religious view that there is an essential difference in kind . |