Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or has he taken this statement from a book or article written by someone else ? |
| 2 | What does this really mean , and is the current fashion for quality merely rhetorical gloss or does it have more substance ? |
| 3 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 4 | Nor has she slit any throats , gouged out any eyes or cut off any fingers or genitals , which is what is routinely done , pour encourager les autres , to opponents of the huge Guatemalan army . |
| 5 | Nor has he condemned right-wing extremism without condemning the rarer left-wing sort in the same breath . |
| 6 | Nor has he provided any evidence to support his belief that cholera is spread in drinking water . |
| 7 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 8 | Nor has it drawn large crowds , apart from the 105,000 visitors who attended the inaugural exhibition featuring the work of Dubuffet 's latter years . |
| 9 | No I meant one of the film actresses that has it done that way or something , |
| 10 | Lead/bass guitarist Jean-Herve Peron unstraps his double-necked guitar monster ( an apparatus that allows him to play both styles with minimum effort ) and holds up his hands in joy . |
| 11 | ITV also announced this week that , with the agreement of the Football League , they had taken out the Arsenal v Liverpool match from the fixtures for February 24 and it would be played at a later date , invoking a clause in their contract with the League that allows them to use three matches a season in this way . |
| 12 | But it must be close microphone placing that allows us to hear occasional breaths and vocalizing . |
| 13 | Would you prefer exercise that allows you to mark definite progress in your skill ? |
| 14 | They are a source of great uncertainty and insecurity that leads them to have more children than they would otherwise . |
| 15 | They told the Cannes conference that new legislation that requires them to give more information on toxic chemicals to federal safety watchdogs could leave them wide open to spies . |
| 16 | This is a basic screen capture program that lets you capture any part of a screen into a PCX file . |
| 17 | It is this increasingly autonomous nature of population change that prompts us to tackle this subject first in our review of the broad geographical patterns underlying the changes affecting individual places . |
| 18 | ‘ I expect that means you do more cases than most ? ’ |
| 19 | now put those slippers on , that , if you get your feet cold that gives you put those slippers on |
| 20 | It is this ‘ beyond procedures ’ type of knowledge ( the ‘ grey knowledge ’ ) that enables them to achieve high performance . |
| 21 | The following assumptions are intended to conform with the Keynesian view of the economy and to simplify the analysis in such a way that enables us to make useful predictions . |
| 22 | Nor does he consider that animal behaviour might provide us with prototypes of human understanding on the basis of which we might consider something akin to different language-games , reflecting both the similarities and the differences implicit in the respective cases . |
| 23 | His status , and salary , will be higher than that of a lowly assistant solicitor , but he makes no capital contributions to the firm nor does he have any right to a share in profits . |
| 24 | The liquidator says that he can not say how much of the stock was supplied by our client , nor does he have any information as to whether or not the amount received from debtors includes any amount for the sale of AB stock originally supplied by our client . |
| 25 | GEORGE Tyson is not a gambling man nor does he take unnecessary risks . |
| 26 | Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery . |
| 27 | Nor does it carry much information about the clouds to Earth because the clouds fail to impress on this radiation many meaningful signatures . |
| 28 | MAS 's role in advising on or assisting in the preparation of a client 's Information memorandum does not involve the issuance of a published report nor does it involve any association with the client 's Information memorandum beyond that set out in the terms of engagement , which should be appropriately limited . |
| 29 | Medical evidence shows using DSE is not associated with damage to eyes and eyesight nor does it make existing defects worse . |
| 30 | Nor does it make much sense for the book to be on offer soon afterwards through a paperback book club that screams at it potential customers , ‘ You write the rules ’ . |