Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much school education has done little or nothing to try to correct these misunderstandings . |
| 2 | If you are unsure or you want to check current staff and service agreements then seek the advice of your trades union via a local steward or regional office . |
| 3 | or , or you going to have some honey and whisky and lemon ? |
| 4 | In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company . |
| 5 | An additional , optional logical name may be set up by each user if he or she wishes to store cached information from one LIFESPAN logon session to another . |
| 6 | As soon as the ideator 's feet hit the floor in the morning , he or she starts to generate countless possibilities . |
| 7 | There should be no difference in principle between the patient diagnosed as having irreparable kidney failure who refuses to submit to dialysis on an artificial kidney or who refuses to continue such treatment and the polio victim on the ventilator who requested that the machine be switched off . |
| 8 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |
| 9 | A little bit of excess weight — say five or ten pounds — is not considered harmful , but for those who are seriously overweight or who need to lose some pounds because of their medical condition , the problem is knowing what diet to follow . |
| 10 | CAMRA supports tenants evicted so that pubs can be run by managers or who refuse to sign new leases on unfair terms . |
| 11 | Causality is here contrasted with indeterminacy : either one pretends that the origin of psychological peculiarities is known and that it has the force of explanation , as in classical psychoanalysis , or one chooses to relinquish this concept and to see identity as a matter of discontinuity and flux . |
| 12 | When we observe this , we should either refresh his mind by saying something with becoming liveliness or something calculated to arouse great wonder and amazement , or even grief and lamentation . |
| 13 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 14 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 15 | beauty products , if you want to spend fifty pence or a pound on something and , and you know from your high street chemist or your going to spend seventy pounds on the same sort of cream , that 's up to you if you , if it makes you feel good , go for it . |
| 16 | ‘ Cumbria is rugby league mad and everyone wants to see this match . |
| 17 | A Soviet statement three days later made it ‘ absolutely clear ’ that the proposal of the EEC states ‘ can not serve as a basis for talks and no-one intends to hold such talks with them ’ . |
| 18 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 19 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 20 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 21 | As I said I 'll be talking about this in the next couple of weeks in the lectures and I hope to cover various things we did n't have time to touch on . |
| 22 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 23 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 24 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 25 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 26 | And I got to get some toilet roll . |
| 27 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 28 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 29 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 30 | His comment had caught me in mid-swallow and I managed to spray little bits of scone onto the coffee table . |