Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before setting out the law , it is important to discover to what extent there exists any unifying principle or premiss which draws together the individual legal rules . |
| 2 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Yeah so erm yeah so if you get that sort of thing and then you can in some way either get people to discuss or get them to fill in a questionnaire about it or something of the sort I mean that 's er the format that y'know kind of er seems to work quite well for final year projects anyway er generally speaking with other stuff so er yeah that 's that 's do-able . |
| 4 | Is it the magic word ‘ organic ’ which appears alongside the higher price tag that triggers this Pavlovian response , or do we weigh up the pros and cons of organic versus inorganic produce before we buy ? |
| 5 | Or do they play only a minor role which nevertheless gives a vital clue to the unfolding of the plot ? |
| 6 | What do you do — put your ideas to one side and spend the next few months feeling deflated ; or do you take out a Midland Personal Loan now and enjoy the benefits of your purchase , paying the money back in easy stages ? |
| 7 | Was it her imagination or did he seem suddenly a little ill at ease ? |
| 8 | Does it have a short time span or does it last over a period of time ? |
| 9 | Does he believe that the loans plus grants system covers the full year or does it cover only the terms after the Christmas and Easter vacations and , if so , what does he recommend to students who can not find work during the summer in the present employment conditions and who had to resort last summer to the soup kitchens ? |
| 10 | Is it a recent alliance , or does it stretch back a few years and involve a few other deals ? |
| 11 | First , is this treatment , when successful , likely to reduce the effects of the disease , or does it have only a palliative effect , in that side effects are avoided from powerful drugs that would otherwise have to be used ? |
| 12 | The pay is very low , as cheap labour is part of the incentive for entrepreneurial farmers , nor do they receive even the minimum security benefits of full-time work . |
| 13 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 14 | Nor had he noticed how the smoke from the perfumed candles seemed to form words — Han pictograms — in the still , dry air . |
| 15 | Nor does it show how the international sphere affects the long cycle ; no consideration is given to how the international structure of industry affects innovation and the propagation of long waves or how innovation affects industry 's internationalization . |
| 16 | And on this morning , of all mornings , James phoned at the crack of dawn and asked me to preside over a ridiculous Press party . |
| 17 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 18 | Three hours later , with most of us starving , the head waiter knocked on the door , threw Robson the keys and asked us to lock up the restaurant when we 'd finished . ’ |
| 19 | When it was on television it really looked , it really looked good but er the reality of it was it was pretty bad really but er the editor was very kind to me and made me look quite a hero but . |
| 20 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
| 21 | And has anyone picked up a copy of The new Square Ball ? |
| 22 | The thing here was that all the flowers were blue — delphiniums and cornflowers and forget me nots round a sundial in the middle of a smooth green velvet lawn . |
| 23 | He balled it , and used it to wipe up the mess . |
| 24 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 25 | The Marines approached the cave in their usual leapfrog manoeuvre , and found themselves facing not an enemy , but the steel doors . |
| 26 | On 9 March , Coleman received a detailed encrypted message from Control setting up Operation Shakespeare , clearing his visit to Lebanon and instructing him to carry out the mission as Thomas Leavy , of Westinghouse Group W News . |
| 27 | We not only provide practice in analysing experiences , but give students a glimpse of a more humane society and urge them to push back the boundaries that inhibit them . ’ |
| 28 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 29 | Clive uses the Chevvy like a normal family car … he takes it to work and uses it to pick up the shopping . |
| 30 | Essentially what we will see between nineteen forty six and nineteen forty nine is a controlled explosion when the Chinese Communist Party quite systematically and deliberately harnesses this vast pool of discontented humanity and uses it to sweep away the Kuomintang regime . |