Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately IBM has not submitted it yet to the likes of X/Open Co Ltd , neither has it signed any deals with the likes of DEC to push MQSeries on its own machines : instead the firm is relying on the system 's own merits to attract software developers . |
| 2 | This allows you to write modular programs which would , if written in one piece , be too large for the memory available . |
| 3 | This allows you to have two drives ( A + B ) of the same size . |
| 4 | Until this happens we believe such areas will continue to be particularly vulnerable to this and all other types of development . |
| 5 | When a judge , particularly one with Lord Scarman 's breadth of mind , is appointed to inquire into an outbreak of violence and serious disorders on the streets of Brixton and the policing of the area , it is unrealistic to expect him to avoid any recommendations of a political nature as to the causes . |
| 6 | It would be quite another to imagine it sanctioning full-blooded mergers between the likes of BAe and GEC , which is what Professor Smith 's script implies . |
| 7 | The Greater London Association for Pre-Retirement ( address on page 154 ) publishes Something Different To Do which lists unusual interests and organisations to contact all over the country . |
| 8 | A soft rubber ball like a squash ball is easy to insert over each cane : your local squash club may be willing to give you discarded punctured balls . |
| 9 | This lets you connect two workstations to the card , and essential feature in a bus topology . |
| 10 | Encrusting types spread onto the substrate , and it 's interesting to watch them producing root-like processes which then grip the rock or sand beneath . |
| 11 | This entitles you to claim substantial discounts on all standard adult coach fares , including Rapide and Cordon Bleu Services , for a full twelve months . |
| 12 | . Tell you what you need to do to achieve your plan , so that you can actually give all your targets , your ratios and your activities , it 's alright , if this tells you to do thirty calls , it 's no use doing twenty . |
| 13 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 14 | This enabled them to handle global constraints on the sentence . |
| 15 | 1 Did you enjoy reading more , or less ? 2 Did you read different kinds of book as you got older ? 3 Did you read comics ? 4 Did you read information books ? 5 Did you have reading tests ? 6 Did you have any favourite books or authors ? 7 Did you have any hates or fears to do with reading ? |
| 16 | This means you have two choices to make — not only a suitable colour for the mounting card but also the background to go with it . |
| 17 | If the car has a constant speed of fifty miles per hour this means it goes fifty miles in every hour . |
| 18 | A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour |
| 19 | When you do this experiment you do three things to make sure it is a fair test . |
| 20 | It 's quite funny watching them make complete fools of themselves . |
| 21 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 22 | This enables them to stash five-figure sums of undisclosed gate receipts into a ‘ slush fund ’ . |
| 23 | This enables them to handle any disputes in a courteous , constructive manner . |
| 24 | This enables you to pinpoint likely problems . |
| 25 | 1 Did you enjoy reading more , or less ? 2 Did you read different kinds of book as you got older ? 3 Did you read comics ? 4 Did you read information books ? 5 Did you have reading tests ? 6 Did you have any favourite books or authors ? 7 Did you have any hates or fears to do with reading ? |
| 26 | I mean , how much do they cost those pills ? |
| 27 | This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence . |
| 28 | It is not blackmail where the accused believes he has reasonable grounds for making the demand and believes the use of menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
| 29 | That leads us to examine Wittgensteinian ideas of action and meaning , and to consider a very different notion of a ‘ game ’ in social life , where the actors are players of roles . |
| 30 | Because an excess of caffeine can bring about many of the symptoms of stress and because these symptoms actually impair mental ability , you are likely to find yourself making foolish mistakes . |