Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way .
2 The associative learning that goes on during such pre-exposure will be dependent upon the context in which training occurs , and to this extent latent inhibition will be attenuated by a change of context .
3 However the background activity that goes on before any product launch can be quite considerable , lasting several months and involving many departments and even more people .
4 ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret .
5 What I can help you with is an understanding of the nature of a product that goes far beyond these crudities ; these academic categories masquerading as truths . ’
6 Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time .
7 But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain .
8 Many of the documents signed at Halling bear the signatures of these men and among these we find Phillip de Poucnessh now known as Punish Hill ; Richard le Veel , Veles of Snodland ; John le Lad now Lads Farm ; John de Holoweye , Holoway Court Snodland ; and another name that lives on to this day is Bavens Bank , which probably derives its name from Adam de Bavent .
9 The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage .
10 Despite our lack of grip on these truths , we do take there to be a transcendent fact of the matter at stake , one that lies now beyond all possibilities of being recognized by us .
11 There is one final and decidedly non-Pacific phenomenon that occurs only in this ocean — the tsunami .
12 Every department that scores highly in those assessments will benefit accordingly .
13 but a decrease that bears equally on all producers , whatever their size or location ;
14 The aim of this programme is to investigate , analyse and clarify the various linkages between government and industry that exists both in this country and in its major competitors .
15 At any rate , it is the service sector that benefits most from this army of workers who have to sacrifice pay and conditions for convenient hours and proximity to home .
16 Already for a number of years , employers have not been able to oblige women to retire at an earlier age than their male colleagues but by law must have a common retirement age that applies equally to both sexes .
17 He that dissents throughout with that church , will dissent with the church of England …
18 With concern about persistent young offenders on the increase , Mr Major said at Commons question time : ‘ There is a responsibility that spreads far beyond any government .
19 Factoring itself is not a term that means much to many outsiders , although invoice discounting has the virtue of describing what it does .
20 The increasing confidence that comes about through this kind of work allows them to do so . ’
21 But he 's made national headlines local and every other headlines that comes about regarding this issue of the merger .
22 One share that comes out of this situation well is ‘ born-again' ICI at 690p .
23 An important emotion that comes across in both books is the constant feeling that the characters have been ‘ hard done by ’ and have had the worst possible luck just because of their colour and poor background .
24 Terrie put the helm hard over while I alternately concentrated on the reef , closing rapidly on both sides , and took bearings on the tree to ensure that we made whatever course corrections were necessary to counteract the current that runs northward up this coastline at up to three knots .
25 But what sets A.agassizii apart from all other known species , and more than makes up for any deficiency in the dorsal ‘ plumage ’ , is its splendid tail .
26 Will my hon. Friend confirm that many companies find that the loyalty given to them by disabled people more than makes up for any days that they may have to take off work to undergo treatment ?
27 First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance .
28 and goes right to that wall does n't it ?
29 When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red .
30 Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person .
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