Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Causality is Granger causality , which is based on the idea that , if past values of the variable × improve predictions of the current value of variable Y , relative to predictions made using just the past values of Y , while past values of Y can not improve on the predictions of the current value of X made using past values of X , X ‘ causes ’ Y , in the special sense that X leads Y . |
| 2 | Plus , plus you got to see how the other breeds are doing , and |
| 3 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 4 | To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers . |
| 5 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 6 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 7 | She shook her head , and tried to rub out the impossible visions . |
| 8 | He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints . |
| 9 | Kayley Desmond , 14 months , had suffered three respiratory attacks where she suddenly stopped breathing over a few hours , Nurse Maxine Motley told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 10 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 11 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 12 | An archaeologist who has transformed the way people think about his area of study ; a communicator who can make an enthralling TV programme ; a lover of contemporary art who has persuaded the Fellows of his Cambridge college at least to tolerate biannual sculpture shows ( one of which involved digging up the hallowed lawns ) ; and now , since his peerage which gives him the forum of Britain 's Upper House , a politician , with strong views on how to preserve the world 's history as encapsulated in its archaeology : Colin Renfrew at fifty-five has an enviable career and range of interests . |
| 13 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 14 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 15 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 16 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
| 17 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 18 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 19 | Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them . |
| 20 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 21 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , Colin was a terrific help once we 'd thrashed out a few problems , ’ she said modestly . |
| 23 | Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves . |
| 24 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 25 | She began to see why the previous nurses had all thought him worth chasing after . |
| 26 | I THOUGHT I 'd write this week about wines from unsung corners of the world , and began to round up the usual suspects — Cyprus , Israel , Canada , Belgium . |
| 27 | He began to work out the probable returns from his night 's work . |
| 28 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 29 | People began filling up the empty seats . |
| 30 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |