Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is going , perhaps , less strongly than it might if the techniques that the laboratory uses for dating pottery , wood and other materials — though no-one has yet found a method of dating metals — were not available .
2 It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds .
3 ‘ I will show you the only book no-one has ever read a word of . ’
4 Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand …
5 Relaxed laws make Vegas the home of quickie weddings , although Jackson himself has never had a girlfriend .
6 Glashow , for example , was reported to say that the Nobel committee took a ‘ bit of a chance ’ because ‘ nobody has yet built a machine that is capable to check ’ the new particles predicted ( international Herald Tribune , 16 October , 1979 ) .
7 The latest scheme devised by Bass to circumvent the beer orders — the intention , not the letter , of the orders — is to sell 372 public houses to a company called Enterprise Inns , which has immediately signed a contract with Bass to supply Bass beers to all those public houses .
8 Since that case was decided , the nature of constitutional guarantees has subtly changed in the constitution of the United Kingdom , which has since become a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights , Article 11 of which guarantees to citizens of the signatory countries a right to freedom of assembly .
9 He formed the Foundation for Economic Trends ( FET ) that same year , which has since coordinated a stream of public actions designed to embarrass science and the corporations .
10 Departures are either from the bustling port of Peterborough , or from Milton Keynes , which has finally found a role for itself as East Anglia 's answer to Blackpool .
11 ‘ To do a deal with the Liberal Democrats would be to help put in power a party which has just lost a share of its vote , ’ said one source .
12 Does the Secretary of State agree that the recent announcement of 300 pay-offs in Harland and Wolff , which has just had an increase in its order book does not augur well for the economy ?
13 Alfred McAlpine has supplied roofing slates for the new St Joseph 's Convent and Convalescent Home , which has just won a Centenary Bournemouth Civic Design Award .
14 It is also suggested that a company tenant which has already created a charge or debenture over future acquired property would be in breach of this clause upon exchange of agreements .
15 Quorum Software Systems Inc , the Menlo Park , California outfit which has already done a version of its Compatibility Engine — allowing Apple Macintosh programmes to run on RISCs — for Solaris , is currently negotiating terms with SunSoft to so a similar Windows product , saying it would be an easier job than the Macintosh version .
16 come and look at the gates sub- contract planning committee which has already had a look at that
17 Once again the LARGE PRINT option is a feature which has already brought a lot of knitters into the CML order book and at £5.50 inc p&p this is summer knitting at ‘ pick-your-own ’ prices .
18 The other anchor tenant will be C&A , which has already signed an agreement to move in .
19 By omission therefore , and it is an understandable though regrettable omission in the circumstances , they did not address the possibility which has now become a reality that a blood transfusion may be a life-saving procedure .
20 The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend .
21 Around Sarajevo there is always an atmosphere : the voice of bullets , shelling and mortars which has now become an atmosphere of ordinary life . ’
22 Second is the Joint Picture Encoding Group ( JPEG ) which has now created a draft standard for compressing still images .
23 Throughout , the meeting highlighted the growing polarization between pro- and anti-whaling states , which has now reached a point which places the future of the IWC in some doubt .
24 The news was welcomed by members of Darlington Health Authority which has now reversed a trend , after having some of the fastest growing waiting lists in the region this time last year .
25 Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue .
26 Failing that you could check out your bank balance and treat yourself to a stay at Champneys health resort which has recently installed a Skier 's Edge and where they gear workouts to your ski-specific needs .
27 This is followed on Thursday , April 1 by the highly successful production of ‘ Grease ’ by award-winning director and choreographer Peter Kennedy , which has recently finished a sell-out run in Belfast .
28 The district with the most poor people was virtually the ancient Liberty of St Edmund , later to become the county of West Suffolk , which has always possessed a unity of its own centring on the town of Bury .
29 However , on a positive note , the locking nut on the EX eschews the twin bolts through the neck that even the top-of-range Ibanez guitars have , which has always seemed an invitation to ‘ tear along the dotted headstock ’ .
30 The successive run of seven is unique in cricket history — unequalled even by Yorkshire , which has never exceeded a sequence of four .
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