Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
| 2 | In contrast , if the terms in general appear unfairly weighted in favour of one party , or if an individual term appears unreasonable , the other party may be encouraged to challenge their effectiveness , and a court may sympathise with the challenger and strive to find ways to reduce the scope of the terms . |
| 3 | For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation . |
| 4 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 5 | List generally approved after explanations of why and wherefore . |
| 6 | Outside and inside also seem best treated as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 7 | During the 1970s , the government began a long programme under which medieval mosques would be restored and some of the glory of Iraq 's Islamic past reasserted , with Baghdad , Basra and Mosul again seen as centres of Arab culture . |
| 8 | Some of the subjects like science and history have attempted to be positive in the curriculum content so that the children attain the targets for the subjects , but also become better educated in terms of quality issues . |
| 9 | Anselm then returned to Rome with the pope and stayed with him until Easter 1099 , when he took part in another Council . |
| 10 | Whilst many voluntary and private child care organisations have diversified , the majority remain heavily committed in terms of both human and capital resources to the provision of residential care . |
| 11 | We 've all fallen in love with our cover picture this month , and hope you will too — it 's got such a happy , festive feel . |
| 12 | And Mogg believes that the difficulty of ordering tea in the Waldorf Hotel these days is symptomatic of the decline of an empire , a feeling I 'm sure we 've all experienced from time to time . |
| 13 | erm , I ca n't read it too well cos I 've only had about couple of lessons on it . |
| 14 | We 've just gone on pink onto red . |
| 15 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 16 | I 've just walked to school for fucking nuffink I have n't got a lesson |
| 17 | I 've just got into England from the States . ’ |
| 18 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 19 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 20 | Hello and Happy New Year I 've just returned to uni after the crimble hols and have just finished shifting through all the e-mail — thank god the Wilko/List abuse thread has finished ! ! ! ! |
| 21 | One of those you 've already met in detail in terms of kinetics as that was the idea of reaction was n't it Chris ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 've already talked to Paula about this , ’ Grace said sternly . |
| 23 | well that 's right , I mean if , if you , if you 've already paid for things like Reflex and erm green card and stuff like that , if you want I 'll , I 'll just put all the petrol on erm me Visa |
| 24 | And , my guess is from , from what is being said , is that the Committee will be , the Policy Panel will see this budget book that , with all that entails , and will hear that , although if you look on page three , there are still carry forwards in hand , that they of thirty thousand , er , the Policy Panel will be told that you , you 've already thought of ways of spending er , I mean there 's thirty eight thousand in total that we 've talked about today , well erm , of , of that erm , fifty eight grant that erm , thirty eight of it is revenue , the other twenty thousand relates to the capital project of Centre . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've not kept in touch with mine at all . |
| 26 | Well it 's not as if you 've like come into loads of money when you suddenly turn sixteen is it ? |
| 27 | And , well we 're doing what we 've always done in relation to erm tenants and erm rent arrears , we basically pursue a sympathetic policy erm for tenants who are facing real financial hardship in paying their rents . |
| 28 | And I 've always thought of marriage as a sort of young adventure , two people of the same age setting out together , discovering together , growing together . |
| 29 | I 've always thought of class in the following way — I think that , that class is broadly , or used to be broadly , ways in which people live . |
| 30 | Barring a calamity erm they will retain their option with us to continue on a two year deal , erm they perhaps , and I have to erm be honest about this , I think they are probably in a marketing sense , the most aggressive erm marketing company that I 've ever witnessed in terms of the style , the panache , the charisma that they have from within . |