Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When paramecium are placed near acetic acid they swim quicker and towards the acid , they are attracted by positive chemotaxis as the acid is a source of food i.e. carbon dioxide . |
| 2 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 3 | But since Gide has been criticized in this respect it is something which needs to be addressed . |
| 4 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
| 5 | Marshall seems to think it relates to the oyster farm negotiations , but as no money , has yet been received on that account I don t see why commission had to be paid in advance , particularly at a time when the group is pressed for cash . |
| 6 | proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ; |
| 7 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |
| 8 | When the values of the differentials at y are substituted in this expression we have at y . |
| 9 | that the candidate knows which outcomes or units are included in any assessment he or she is undertaking . |
| 10 | ‘ I am surrounded by selfish bastards I thought were my friends , ’ I say , slapping my forehead with the hand holding the J and almost setting my hair alight . |
| 11 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 12 | The permitted energy states in such a system form a so-called ‘ surface sub-band ’ , and when all the mobile electrons are contained in one sub-band we have reached the electric quantum limit . |
| 13 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 15 | Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done ! |
| 16 | … I am moved by those cadences I find in Ivy . |
| 17 | Whether it is that nowadays people are less interested in playing games as between author and reader , or whether it is that the human liking for games-playing has been transferred to other fields I do not know . |
| 18 | If you are writing on this topic you can work out a list of different sorts of tragedy . |
| 19 | If charges are made for certain services they are usually nominal and have little impact on the level of services offered . |
| 20 | But then grandiose claims are made for most things you can buy connected with mountaineering . |
| 21 | I 've been out there and I still did n't know what erm but they will er if if you 're struggling on any assignment they will not let you struggle for day in day out . |
| 22 | hang on to somebody elses tail lights , it gives us a false sense of security watch your speed , you may be going much faster than you think , do not speed up to get away from the vehicle which is too close behind you , remember that if you 're driving with heavy people it may take longer to pull up and speed on ahead , warning signals or |
| 23 | ‘ No , it means that once you 're caught in those waves you might as well give up . ’ |
| 24 | Given the amount of calls and the fact that they 're telephoned in different areas it seems a lot of trouble to go through if it was a hoax . |
| 25 | After all , it 's in their interests to keep you going — if you 're pushed into total insolvency you become a worse debt to them . |
| 26 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 27 | Yeah I mean if you 're looking at quantitative things it 's really you know how much actual How much variation happens whereas qualitative is you know what the actual variations |
| 28 | we always use at least three for a piano because although two men can lift them very often if you 're going round awkward corners it helps to have a third person s to steady them . |
| 29 | If you 're lacking in self- confidence you may , do n't want , you do n't wan na get other people 's views and meekness impose them . |
| 30 | Liam I can hear everything you 're saying on this Meg you know , really clearly . |