Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient 's lips , tongue or face take on a purply-bluish tint . |
| 2 | Then allow your goal or Dream to take on a symbolic form , and appear on the grass in front of you . |
| 3 | Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants ; MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts . |
| 4 | This method is also ideal if you have to reknit a neckband or have sewn up the second shoulder in error . |
| 5 | While this kind of breakdown does help one to comprehend the various strands and stages that go to make up the current system , it is rather crude . |
| 6 | The third weakness is a fundamental one : various institutional differences in the operation and segregation of the many sectors that go to make up the financial services industry . |
| 7 | Only one event pulls together all the strands that go to make up the complete electronic publishing market , Electronic Publishing&print 1988 . |
| 8 | The Bullock Report offered clear support for language in teacher education : ‘ Among the modules that go to make up the professional training element there should be a compulsory one on language in education ’ ( DES , 1975 : 337–8 ) . |
| 9 | They include current selection theory describing the mechanisms of biological change , accounts of animal studies that provide evidence concerning the psychobiological ‘ platform ’ from which human life ascended , inferences from infrahuman primates and other animals to man , and finally a treatment of the evolution of the component faculties that go to make up the human mind . |
| 10 | The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice . |
| 11 | The reason why is summarised in my own ‘ Principle of inverse irreversibility ’ , a sub-paradigm of my ‘ Law of innate tendencies ’ , itself one of the laws that go to make up the all-encompassing ‘ Law of irrelevant correlates ’ , as explained in my work-in-progress , ‘ Irrelevant correlates ( and others ) ’ , which promises to be hailed on publication as the definitive analysis of systematised muddleheadedness . |
| 12 | However appalled , Ramsay could do nothing more at this stage than try to carry out the original plan . |
| 13 | Turning to the third category , of strokes that serve to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes that either precede or follow , we could call them ‘ separation strokes ’ We find strokes in such patterns as shown in ex.3a so overwhelmingly , that we can identify sporadic dots as shrunken strokes . |
| 14 | News of the Polish plan comes hot on the heels of the introduction of restrictions on currency convertability that threaten to wipe out the Slovakian market ; both developments underline the degree of risk that is still attached to operating in the region . |
| 15 | Every experience of childbirth is different , so the accounts by teenage mothers that follow illustrate just a few of these . |
| 16 | Most biological systems have feedback mechanisms that help smooth out the little fluctuations that life throws at them . |
| 17 | Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ? |
| 18 | Do n't be afraid to make good use of filler and stain to patch up the odd failure . |
| 19 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 20 | She ran from him , nightmare panic making her breathing and heartbeat echo down the long tree-lined path until she saw the moon shining through a stained-glass window of the garden of Eden . |
| 21 | On receiving a petition it is the function of the Commission to ascertain the facts and seek to bring about a friendly settlement of the matter on the basis of respect for the human rights set out in the Convention ( Art.28 ) . |
| 22 | WC apps : 9 Winners : 1930 , 1950 If they really have got their act together and manage to cut out the cynical stuff , Uruguay could achieve much more this time . |
| 23 | Grass and moss sprout along the grey-green ribs making the lead slippery . |
| 24 | The difference in the bowling attacks then became rather noticeable ; by soon after tea on the third day , West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when Lloyd declared , with 50 from Fredericks , 135 from Richards , and Greenidge becoming only the second West Indian after Headley to score a century in each innings against England . |
| 25 | As the original solute is successively diluted , so the mirroring , shape-specific water polymers build up and continue to pass on the shape-encoded information to successive potencies long after the original starting material has been diluted out . |
| 26 | In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes . |
| 27 | After the gig , we mooch around the band 's dressing room and try to give off an inconspicuous vibe ( a hard one , since we 're the only ones that are n't stoned out of our gourds and do n't have accents that can hack their way through huge mountain ranges ) . |
| 28 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 29 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 30 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |