Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 APART FROM ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ , this was the only Smiths or Morrissey newie or reissue not to receive an NME review .
2 If and when a participant to the agreement fails to carry out one of his or her duties , will you let it ride , gripe endlessly about it or decide in advance a system of penalties ?
3 The phrase " all language " of quotations three and seven , the general term " language " of quotation four , and the use of " paradigm " in quotations two and eight , all function like the word " always " in the proposition discussed in the previous paragraph : they shift the focus of an immanent critique or paraphrase outward to formulate a general claim.2 The comparison between these propositions and the one already discussed is not perfect .
4 Pedestrians going down the steps from the bus stop are hidden by trees and shrubs and have to either walk in the road or cross over to find a pavement .
5 If for some reason you can not or choose not to attend a course , then you will have to find some means of charting your progress with the limited help made available by colleagues .
6 Well , the purpose of the County Council is to draw up a greenbelt local plan , and therefore it is a question of whether or not the sites fulfil or do not fulfil a greenbelt purpose .
7 People in church do not usually sing when they either dislike or do not know a piece .
8 Go on a train without a ticket , or do n't get a TV licence and the re is a substantial fine and a criminal record .
9 If you ca n't type or do n't own a typewriter , ask your friends .
10 If you 're planning to leave the lot to one person , or do n't have a lot to leave , buy a DIY will-pack from WH Smith or the Consumers ' Association .
11 ( eg. a BTEC First Certificate or Diploma or SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules in relevant studies , such as in Hotel and Catering ) , or have successfully completed a Catering YTS programme or hold appropriate CGLI certificates in catering and/or accommodation subjects ) .
12 The particular point of interest ( Table 12b ) is the extent of any difference between the attitudes of people who are not using or have not used a type of credit , and the attitudes of those who have : when the attitudes of non-users are different , this may suggest either a misapprehension , or sometimes some genuine difference — in either case , perhaps worth further exploration .
13 A child who is under the age of 5 and who is likely to have a learning difficulty when s/he reaches that age also has a learning difficulty .
14 But if The Order of Things is thus concerned to analyse ‘ ensembles of discourses ’ that do not form a totality , it does not focus on the ways in which such forms of knowledges relate to the institutions in which and through which they are produced .
15 There can be very few machines that do not have a spreadsheet program and if yours is one of them then you are probably missing out on one of the most valuable tools available .
16 Invertebrates are generally defined as animals that do not have a backbone or internal skeleton and that simple definition takes in around 97% of the whole of the living species of animals in the world .
17 The HRD practitioner might want to cite examples from his or her own experience of the fact that ‘ quick-fix ’ changes tend to be just that — first-aid treatments that do not have a base for perpetuation .
18 What about amino acids that do not have a hand , being their own mirror images ?
19 Businesses required to register for VAT in the UK that do not have a business establishment here may now appoint , or may be directed to appoint , a tax representative to account for UK VAT on their behalf .
20 Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have .
21 Those mainly affected are B&Bs that do not provide an evening meal .
22 She 's the voice of all things that do n't get a voice .
23 President , Congress , Conference I know we will all welcome all the pressure that we can be brought to this government and its pursuit of policies if that 's the right world , policies that do n't have a direction would just have them from one crisis to another .
24 Half the time they 're just crazy instruments that do n't have a name .
25 We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out .
26 But I think there are a lot of people that do n't have a Sunday dinner , whatever form .
27 A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team .
28 Theirs is a perfectly good decision that need only become a problem if at a later stage they find that it has become too difficult to share their life and a potential relationship disintegrates through their selfishness .
29 The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one .
30 ‘ People are clearly in earnest and want desperately to find a solution to keep the round on course , ’ a GATT official said .
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