Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose , for example , that the police seek to remove a person 's clothing , or to take fingerprints when they are not authorised to do so , or persistently seek to question a person who makes it plain that he has no wish to answer , or seek to enter a house when they have no search warrant or a defective one . |
| 2 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |
| 3 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 4 | She said an expert believed the trolleys could have cut the brake pipes on the train or even have caused a derailment . |
| 5 | Sometimes volunteers alternate between normal and long sleeps ( lasting 16 rather than 8 hours , for example ) or even appear to adopt a sleep/wake cycle that lasts about 50 rather than 25 hours . |
| 6 | A loop of string or even thread securing a door or a wooden chest could be ‘ locked ’ with a lump of clay stamped with the owner 's personal seal . |
| 7 | Since the Second World War , swings Left and Right have had a knack of coinciding on both sides of the Atlantic , with Wilson riding on the post-Kennedy-Johnson wave , Callaghan coming back with Carter , and Margaret Thatcher heralding the Reaganite counter-revolution . |
| 8 | If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman . |
| 9 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
| 10 | This suggests that it may be difficult to maintain large power differences and still hope to keep a group happy . ’ |
| 11 | As they are hand reared these spiders become accustomed to Goblins and quickly learn to accept a rider . |
| 12 | They need assistance with the flap mechanism and really need to inspect a Percival Proctor , ideally a dismantled one , to examine the cranks . |
| 13 | A marriage can do the same , provided the couple are prepared to talk things through and really want to make a go of it . |
| 14 | They may also be concerned with relating these types to the symbolic meaning of each code within the community ( an aim which brings them within the scope of ( 3 ) below ) and even seek to establish a theory with predictive power , i.e. the ability to predict instances of switching within a stretch of discourse . |
| 15 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 16 | If anyone would like further information about the tape , and even wish to buy a copy , then telephone . |
| 17 | Will it wait to deal with them when the bills drop on the doormats and then try to compile a list of people entitled to a rebate after the council tax has been introduced ? |
| 18 | Make more use of your tutors — compile a list of queries and then arrange to see a tutor for help . |
| 19 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 20 | and then want to eat a lot , so it 's like , it 's like acidy |
| 21 | But excavations have so far failed to support this image and indeed have indicated a town in decline . |
| 22 | Rebaya and her daughter purchased the materials necessary to men to make incense sticks and again have achieved a degree of financial independence which six months before could not have been expected . |
| 23 | Many retailers today rely simply on jacket design and advertising budgets and never bother to read a text at all . |
| 24 | A more serious problem is the bias of the sources , which reflect the views of the ruling class rather than those of the rebels and therefore tend to paint a picture of disorder rather than to record the grievances which prompted the revolt . |
| 25 | Given their ( rational ) expectations , firms agree to set prices at P in periods 1 and 2 and therefore expect to produce a level of output in both periods equal to y n . |
| 26 | Older people are acutely conscious of the possibility of making too many demands , and commonly try to avoid a situation where they have to rely on their children too much . |
| 27 | Therefore , I do not have a chapter on ‘ industry ’ but rather have attempted a review of base . |
| 28 | ‘ We get give all types and temperaments , but rarely have to turn a horse down . |
| 29 | " This development would not only be a danger in itself but also help set a trend which will make it easier for other countries in the region to follow , " a Greenpeace statement said . |