Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | situation where you why did you do that and the silence is absolutely incredibly aggressive and you feel quite put on the spot . |
| 2 | So what does that 's when you start thinking about half of a quarter it gets very confusing what do you mean do you mean half or a quarter ? |
| 3 | How d how do we make sure that the number on the bottom is the same ? |
| 4 | However , this procedure was not explicit to the readership , and only by adding an acknowledgement to the article could we make clear that the article had not been accepted just because the editor was an author . |
| 5 | Melissa made herself sound casual but the curiosity that Lou 's call had aroused was breaking through her lethargy . |
| 6 | Conversely , Orientals and Africans rarely mutilate their pets for cosmetic purposes , but the trimming of puppies ears of certain breeds to make them stand erect or the breaking and subsequent resetting of the tails of American saddle-bred horses is , or was until very recently , a common practice in American dog and horse-show circles . |
| 7 | At tea breaks and lunchtime I never saw him eat more than a bar of chocolate or a biscuit . |
| 8 | He makes it sound simple but the success speaks for itself . |
| 9 | If a gratuitous unconditional promise is revocable should it become irrevocable because a condition is added ? |
| 10 | Nor does it seem likely that the idea of causal power is not open to analysis , or , what comes to much the same , that it is somehow to be acquired without noticeable effort by thinking on what is common to such verbs as " push " and " pull " , as has sometimes been supposed . |
| 11 | Why does it seem important that the answer should have some ‘ objective ’ quality about it , an insight into history , society , knowledge , rather than point to a merely personal obsession ? |
| 12 | After mortal trouble Let me lie still Where the wind drives and the clouds stream Over the hill Where grass 's thousand thirsty mouths Sup up their fill Of the slow dew and the sharp rain Of the mantling snow dissolv 'd again At Heaven 's sweet will . |
| 13 | Let us make sure that the law to be put before Parliament this autumn requires genetically engineered products to be clearly labelled as such . |