Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I also make sure that the five-strong work teams are up to strength and have all the equipment they need . |
2 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
3 | I never have more than the permitted amount of duty-free goods ; I 've never imported plants , or dogs , or drugs , or uncooked meat , or firearms ; and yet I constantly find myself wanting to turn the wheel and head for the Red Channel . |
4 | The Endowment Appeal is to fund the College 's teaching Fellowships — many of which still have little or no endowment — and is aimed primarily at Somervillians and at Trusts . |
5 | You suggest , in effect , that for some reason it is justifiable for boat owners who , after all , must have some financial resources to have acquired a permanent mooring in the first place , to be supported by ordinary countrywide residents , many of whom genuinely have little or no financial resources and who could not care less about a handful of sailors . |
6 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
7 | Whereas they all currently specialise either in advanced academic credit-bearing courses of one or two years , or in short courses for groups who often have little or no contact with each other , Northern College 's founders hoped to combine long courses with ten-week courses so that students would benefit from having the continuity of learning associated with the long courses alongside the fresher experiences and perceptions of students on short courses . |
8 | So once you 've cleansed , and once you 've toned you then make sure that the face is either tissued dry or you can actually pad to your face , after the toner , with a towel . |
9 | I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline . |
10 | Okay we now have seven and a half minutes on affiliation other groups . |
11 | I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention . |
12 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
13 | Only when they eventually become aware that no such jobs are available do they reduce their asking wage . |
14 | They always do that when the plague comes to London . |
15 | they 're so long erm they always seem colder than a caravan although it did n't |
16 | They usually lack self-reliance and the ability to cope realistically with their problems , and later on fail ( or are slow ) to accept adult responsibilities . |
17 | Unlike the indigenous tribes , they often have little or no agricultural know-how and simply slash and burn the forest as they go . |
18 | Mainly middle-class , they often have little or no concept of the lives of working-class women , who are still the real victims of male oppression . |
19 | They then remain seated while the rest leave for the next trip . |
20 | The well-known American research by Hill ( 1970 ) has demonstrated the interlocking nature of support structures across the three generations , and has shown that grandchildren do feel responsibility to give assistance to their grandparents in this context , although in practice they actually do less than the intervening generation . |
21 | They are very much a part of the scene nowadays and they certainly deserve more than a derisory four laps . |