Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight …
2	They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy .
3	He will , however , be expected to do something about the severe imbalances that are masked by the wonderful overall figures for economic growth .
4	Everything in a given society is made to explain its racism , and this racism , in turn , is made to explain everything about a particular ethnic minority within it .
5	Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times .
6	‘ You 've got to do something in the close season when there 's no jumping , ’ Elsworth joked , making light of a triumph that clearly thrilled him enormously .
7	There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes :
8	The chief disadvantages for the collector are the vast amount of space needed to house anything like a representative collection , and its far from attractive appearance , except with bound runs .
9	It is based on army issue shovels and although very compact could be used to dig anything from a small surface hole to a trench !
10	First , any illusions that people may have had about Britain were soon dispelled : Britain still refused to accept anything above a loose intergovernmental structure .
11	The legend of Noah 's ark once purported to say something about the geographical distribution of animals .

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