Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd like to hear from anyone who has an interesting story or tip to pass on to other readers . |
| 2 | Be careful that you do n't end up writing a novel or get bogged down in pseudo poetry with no end in view . |
| 3 | Well the majority of them are a , abused or get thrown out of mental centres , I mean , some of them just run away from home because they want to and that 's only a minority , lots of them have |
| 4 | If less money was taken by the public sector it is doubtful whether people would invest in British industry or continue to spend more on foreign consumer goods . |
| 5 | All these governments , despite what they were saying or had said previously in public , considered the abduction of their citizens as a political act and were negotiating over it . |
| 6 | Scarlet supposed she should be grateful that her daughter had not shaved her head , tattooed her nose or chosen to go around in floor-length black , hung about with chains and crucifixes like so many of the girls on the streets . |
| 7 | On this basis , art treasures which have been misplaced , lost or have ended up in private collections should either be returned or covered by compensation from the guilty party ’ . |
| 8 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 9 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 10 | Many of the knitting pattern diagrams are very simple shapes and make drawing up to full size and shaping , as far as armhole and neck , quite basic . |
| 11 | Set against these points is the familiar maintenance problem : softwood windows need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep then in good condition . |
| 12 | At a dinner with Kim on Nov. 6 , Roh promised to reinforce Kim 's powers by curbing his detractors within the party , and agreed to press ahead with internal party democratization measures . |
| 13 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 14 | Ringed plover and sanderling pass through in great numbers on their way further south . |
| 15 | And got split up into different little workshops and dwellings . |
| 16 | After one visit to a juvenile court where some gang members had been committed to Approved School after ‘ carrying out depredations against shopkeepers over quite a wide area ’ , Dr Bryan ‘ could not help feeling a little depressed at the thought of so much high spirit , imagination , ingenuity and daring shut up behind high walls ’ . |
| 17 | The reality is that , from specialist beginnings , the range of skills required by actuaries is expanding continually — the reason being that the actuarial profession lives in a commercial environment and has to adapt continuously to changing circumstances . |
| 18 | Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd is more than £1.7 million in debt and has fallen behind with major orders it has secured . |
| 19 | He is the co-author of Le Verre Structurel and has written extensively on international architecture . |
| 20 | Jeni Bremner , co-author of the guide , is a freelance trainer and consultant and has worked closely with residential staff on sexuality and safer sex . |
| 21 | In the result , however , Profumo retired from public life and has worked heroically in public and social service for little reward for a number of years . |
| 22 | The archaeological researcher John Barnatt has recently re-examined alignments , first noted last century , of stone circles onto key peaks on Bodmin Moor in or a wall , and has come up with favourable results . |
| 23 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 24 | Performers such as Richard Cocciante , Sandra , Renaud and Telephone mean little to British audiences , but in their own countries — Italy , Germany and France — they are stars , selling enormous quantities of records . |
| 25 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 26 | As was mentioned in Chapter 3 , the American decision to sell grain once more to the Soviet Union in 1977 wiped out the Soil Bank established in the 1970s and caused ploughing up of marginal land and a marked increase in erosion rates ( Cook 1983 ) . |
| 27 | This method is used to indicate establishments high in amenities but with deliberately limited personalised services , designed and operated to cater predominantly for short stay guests . |
| 28 | A black-and-white Tudor manor house , separated by a gravelled car park from a modern two-storey extension mocked up to resemble stables ; lawns behind sloping away towards the wooded flanks of the Surrey hills ; the colours of St. George hanging limply from a flagstaff ; three geese in flight across a swash-lettered nameboard ; and smoke pluming vertically from slender chimney stacks . |
| 29 | Individual total utility can be raised if can be removed in good times , leaving and added to achieve also in bad times . |
| 30 | In the years immediately following the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms civil servants were ill-paid and allowed to participate actively in outside economic ventures . |