Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] a [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Savage ( 1990 ) 91 Cr App R 317 , the same court ( but a different division ) on the same day said that intentionally or recklessly causing a battery was sufficient , as long as actual bodily harm occurred . |
| 2 | In the 1920 's and 1930's she was a social worker in the Middle East , and also ran a children 's home for Doctor Barnardo 's . |
| 3 | A third possibility is the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake in a complex modern society which values experts and regularly validates a person 's standing by assessing his expertise . |
| 4 | Anyone who drinks 2½ pints of beer or ½ bottle of wine and then drives a car is almost certainly breaking the law unless he waits patiently for the liver to reduce blood alcohol levels . |
| 5 | Predictions have value of course because these are things which affect climate and affect people 's lives , but also making a prediction is a way of trying to verify whether the understanding that we think we have about how the system works can actually be translated into equations which are put on a computer , and then when you let this go it in fact s does indeed do what the real world does . |