Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or has he taken this statement from a book or article written by someone else ? |
| 2 | What does this really mean , and is the current fashion for quality merely rhetorical gloss or does it have more substance ? |
| 3 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 4 | Nor has she slit any throats , gouged out any eyes or cut off any fingers or genitals , which is what is routinely done , pour encourager les autres , to opponents of the huge Guatemalan army . |
| 5 | Nor has he condemned right-wing extremism without condemning the rarer left-wing sort in the same breath . |
| 6 | Nor has he provided any evidence to support his belief that cholera is spread in drinking water . |
| 7 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 8 | Nor has it drawn large crowds , apart from the 105,000 visitors who attended the inaugural exhibition featuring the work of Dubuffet 's latter years . |
| 9 | Nor does he consider that animal behaviour might provide us with prototypes of human understanding on the basis of which we might consider something akin to different language-games , reflecting both the similarities and the differences implicit in the respective cases . |
| 10 | His status , and salary , will be higher than that of a lowly assistant solicitor , but he makes no capital contributions to the firm nor does he have any right to a share in profits . |
| 11 | The liquidator says that he can not say how much of the stock was supplied by our client , nor does he have any information as to whether or not the amount received from debtors includes any amount for the sale of AB stock originally supplied by our client . |
| 12 | GEORGE Tyson is not a gambling man nor does he take unnecessary risks . |
| 13 | Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery . |
| 14 | Nor does it carry much information about the clouds to Earth because the clouds fail to impress on this radiation many meaningful signatures . |
| 15 | MAS 's role in advising on or assisting in the preparation of a client 's Information memorandum does not involve the issuance of a published report nor does it involve any association with the client 's Information memorandum beyond that set out in the terms of engagement , which should be appropriately limited . |
| 16 | Medical evidence shows using DSE is not associated with damage to eyes and eyesight nor does it make existing defects worse . |
| 17 | Nor does it make much sense for the book to be on offer soon afterwards through a paperback book club that screams at it potential customers , ‘ You write the rules ’ . |
| 18 | Nor does it make any statements about the costs of administrative and managerial change , or of the considerable developments in information technology which will be required to carry out some of its proposals . |
| 19 | Nor does it pose any difficulty in Poland where research is a truly multilingual affair . |
| 20 | Nor does it need any familiarity with the object ; that is , it does not need to have experienced those two views in association beforehand . |
| 21 | ‘ And I can only say that the Master will not like it if his breakfast and lunch do not arrive on time , because he serves his maid coffee , engages her in chit-chat , and encourages her to read disreputable papers when she ought to be blackleading the range , or scrubbing the kitchen floor . ’ |
| 22 | Organisational learning , where the ‘ organisation ’ stores experiences in forms , procedures and rules , and uses them to teach new staff and retrain others , can encourage adaptiveness to change . |
| 23 | In her most fundamental expression , the Queen of the Night draws on primitive currents of energy and uses them to fulfil instinctive drives that know little of honour , justice , compassion , or other civilized values . |
| 24 | It 's useful when you 've got to contact lots of staff or get information to many people at the same time and allows you to put detailed information down . |
| 25 | Maybe your financial position has changed recently and plans you made some time ago need reviewing . |
| 26 | Now he has been promoted and says he needs more time . |
| 27 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 28 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |
| 29 | It protects them and ensures they receive adequate payment for their musical skills . |
| 30 | He then returns to his first mate , the primary female , whose eggs are by now just hatching , and helps her raise this brood . |