Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backfill material contained a considerable amount of pottery , which was stylistically attributable to the second half of the eleventh century AD , along with much burnt clay or daub thought to derive from wattle walls . |
| 2 | The fact that number is a grammatical category in English means that an English speaker or writer who uses a noun such as student or child has to choose between singular and plural . |
| 3 | They also use sticks or grass stems to probe for food , and in particular they use them to ‘ fish ’ for giant termites . |
| 4 | How far might either constituent or MP have to travel in order to make such a consultation possible ? |
| 5 | If a wasp or bee has to die in order to convey the message of its coloration , how did warning colours evolve in the first place ? |
| 6 | What does the practising teacher of , say , science or history need to know about language , in order to bring about improvements in the classroom and cope with problems that arise there ? |
| 7 | The fact that Dissent appeared to flourish under toleration became a great cause for concern to those devout Anglicans who throughout the 1680s had been encouraged to believe that the only way to protect the Church and State was by a strict enforcement of the penal laws , and their anxieties were further reinforced by the sermons of the high-flying clergy . |
| 8 | Late one afternoon as I was packing some old boots I had begged with wet slack and tea leaves to use as fuel on the fire the door was flung open and Dad stumbled in . |
| 9 | Technical publications on computer abuse , security and auditing tend to focus on input , output , access , software and processing controls , while the media is all too often preoccupied with the potential threat posed by viruses and hackers ( see ACCOUNTANCY , April , p 102 , 103 ) . |
| 10 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |
| 11 | As sea-floor spreading continues the margin ages and subsidence begins to predominate over uplift , at least along its oceanward flank ( Fig. 4.15(C) ) . |
| 12 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 13 | Disappointment and frustration began to accumulate in criticism of Buxton as parliamentary leader of the cause . |
| 14 | Would the thermodynamic arrow reverse and disorder begin to decrease with time ? |
| 15 | Patient numbers and mortality fail to take into account the influences of different demographic groups or diagnoses and so these simple data are being abandoned for more complex assessments that generate an overall score and tell us something about how ill the patient is . |
| 16 | Fertility could remain high and mortality continue to decline without population growth being stifled by a fall in wages and increases in the cost of subsistence . |
| 17 | But perfect love drives out fear , because fear has to do with punishment . |
| 18 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 19 | One apparent reason for the delay was the Bush adminstration 's fear that to conclude a free-trade pact in mid-1992 as originally envisaged would be an electoral liability in the US presidential contest , opening Bush to attacks from protectionists that he was encouraging US companies to relocate to Mexico in search of cheap labour while unemployment continued to rise at home . |
| 20 | While English tends to modify by use of adjectives or adverbs , BSL tends to use inflection especially in relation to the verb and it is this which makes its story formation rather different . |
| 21 | When wood begins to fail in compression little lines of buckled fibres can just be seen running diagonally or across the grain but these are easily missed unless the surface is clean and you know what to look for . |
| 22 | In so doing we are probably , assuming such abilities exist , mixing chalk with cheese : clairvoyance , for example , may have as little to do with precognition as vision has to do with touch . |