Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 2 | Organisers expect to sell out the 52 matches , culminating with the championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , California . |
| 3 | I now want to draw together the four aspects of intelligent machines set out above and three prima facie features of consciousness : these three seem to me necessary criteria for any explication of consciousness , and I will suggest that the aspects of such machines already described are interestingly related to these facts . |
| 4 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | In Section 1 we seek to lay out the main sources and strategies for innovation , and indicate the kind of conflicts that are intrinsic to creative management . |
| 6 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 7 | If we manage to sort out the syntactical problems , we might find that in the end the other issues will get sorted out of themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 9 | I also enjoy ripping up the rejected drafts of this manuscript . |
| 10 | Grass and moss sprout along the grey-green ribs making the lead slippery . |
| 11 | ‘ I enjoy taking on the big battalions , ’ he says . |
| 12 | AFTER four days of sparring , Eric Vanderaerden unleashed his Sunday punch to knock out the fading hopes of Sean Kelly , and the whole of Ireland , in the Nissan Classic , which finished in Dublin yesterday after five days and 925km . |
| 13 | We always like to tie up the loose ends in this court . ’ |
| 14 | Ideas only find favour once an influential person(s) has been convinced of their practicability . |
| 15 | While the tannery try to sort out the best hides before they 're sent , these flaws can not be helped , so Klondyke cut round them , since otherwise the scar might eventually open up and spoil or even split the strap . |
| 16 | If we try to weigh up the two sets of complaints , bearing in mind the greater need of the people in the Exodus passage , we might say that honours , or dishonours , are about even . |
| 17 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 18 | The third weakness is a fundamental one : various institutional differences in the operation and segregation of the many sectors that go to make up the financial services industry . |
| 19 | I go shopping once every three years , you know , so these were kind a like a big deal for me . ’ |
| 20 | I intend putting together the internal views I have received on Monday next . |
| 21 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 22 | Footballers and boxers , too , often have their entry into the sports world aided by zealous school teachers , though , overwhelmingly , they choose to see only the formative years up to , say , the age of 13 as affected by teachers . |
| 23 | However , DHAs could suffer the secondary effects of such selection if GP budget-holders choose to select only the lower risks leaving the DHA with the higher-cost patients within any category . |
| 24 | For adults over the age of 18 the electoral roll is the normal sample frame , but even this is far from perfect since it is compiled only once each year and many people fail to fill in the necessary forms while others may change address shortly after registering . |
| 25 | They aim to collect together the best practices from within the group . |
| 26 | If you do muddle up the crowd-flow arrangements , Over-stretch the facilities or pick an unsuitable venue in the first place , you cause enormous distractions from the event and the message . |
| 27 | I shall deal mainly with the latter subject , but I intend to spend just a few minutes on education . |
| 28 | Third World states tend to take over the foreign investments that they consider to be important for national development . |
| 29 | Costings of domestic expenditures in industrial countries on reducing emissions tend to brush away the minor irrelevancies of the millions and concentrate on refining estimates to the nearest billion . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |