Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |
2 | You have certain formatted sections that are the news , straight stuff , or running tabular matter or whatever , but then somebody weighs in on each section , at El Sol we have a graphics person on each desk , but they 're divided into work groups so different work groups do different pages . |
3 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
4 | Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters . |
5 | Oh I mean I do n't want it to be a party where everybody goes off into different rooms , you know ? |