Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says TB is a problem with badgers , but killing every animal which is caught just so that it can be tested for the illness is n't the answer . |
| 2 | Trees which had been hacked and chopped and mutilated , which had had branches torn away so that they could be roughly stacked against the wall . |
| 3 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 4 | He had to sing properly in Zarewitsch and one was reminded yet again that he could have been a great singer if only he had tried . |
| 5 | but they 're gon na taxed so heavily that they ca n't afford to live in it under this new tax ! |
| 6 | Because the characters can be transmitted much faster than they can be printed they are stored , in the printer , in a block of memory known as a buffer . |
| 7 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 8 | Searle glosses Foucault 's comment by saying , ‘ The text is written so obscurely that you ca n't figure out exactly what the thesis is ( hence ‘ obscurantisme ’ ) and then when one criticizes it , the author says , ‘ Vous m'avez mal compris ; vous êtes idiot ' ’ ( hence ‘ Terroriste ’ ) . ’ |
| 9 | It was the thing she did best , and she had decided long ago that she would study in earnest as soon as she left school . |
| 10 | Defended flowers can therefore be exploited more efficiently and it can pay a sunbird to defend a territory . |
| 11 | Mr Murphy also raised the issue of why Navan Resources wished to mine andalusite when it can be manufactured more cheaply than it can be mined : ‘ Maybe because it is gold — there is gold there but the problem with gold is getting it out , because that is a very difficult process which involves the use of cyanide as a metal wash ’ . |
| 12 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 13 | Often he is afraid that these jobs will not be done , or not done as well as he would do them . |
| 14 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 15 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 16 | Worse still , she had seen almost immediately that it would be the easiest thing in the world to listen for information . |
| 17 | I have n't decided yet exactly where it will first be shown . ’ |
| 18 | He struggled for a moment , but he was enclosed so tightly that he could not even work an arm free from his side . |
| 19 | One group is shown below so that you can see how the exercise works . |
| 20 | Well you 've got less actually because they 'll be getting your grandma changed |
| 21 | Louisa was held by those urgent eyes , drawn more deeply than she would have wished into the darkness behind . |
| 22 | Bring them in , show that you 've actually thought more generally and you can see how you can bring different parts of the syllabus in because that 's the novelty , that 's what makes a piece of work stand out . |
| 23 | At high enough temperatures , particles have so much energy that whenever they collide many different particle/antiparticle pairs would be produced — and although some of these particles would annihilate on hitting antiparticles , they would be produced more rapidly than they could annihilate . |
| 24 | He has known no want either materially or of a mother 's love for you have supplied both abundantly and he will be reminded of this all his life you can be sure . |
| 25 | whether the present legal powers in the 1983 Mental Health Act are being used as effectively as they can be , and what action could be taken in advance of any new legislation to ensure that they are . |
| 26 | The Tender is the defenders ' finest weapon , and is not used as often as it should be . |
| 27 | As I 've described it above , the process differs from modern multi-track technique , because the ‘ backing track ’ went through a number of generations , while modern multi-track tape recorders keep each layer separate ; so the technique was n't used as fully as it might have been , because the quality dropped each time . |
| 28 | Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too . |
| 29 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 30 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |