Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Isle of Man Coastal Path or Raad ny Foillan ( Way of the Gull ) is a route that does n't get half the publicity it deserves . |
| 2 | Our results show that the causal agent exits the wounded cotyledon when phloem translocation is blocked , so the systemic effect must either arise from a chemical signal travelling through a route that does not involve the transport of photosynthate , or a physical signal . |
| 3 | If one finds , as one sometimes does , that an Act contains a provision that does not make sense , it is only too easy to assume that it is the draftsman who has made an error . |
| 4 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 5 | It accepted that the administration of the Court ( and subsequently the General Assembly ) acting qua organisation , and not qua member States , had made a decision that did not comply with the formal requirements of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice , but held nevertheless that the Court had jurisdiction . |
| 6 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 7 | If ‘ life ’ is defined broadly ; perhaps , as we suggested earlier , as any kind of chemical system that can evolve adaptively , then it is possible to envisage life of a kind that does not involve water . |
| 8 | First , has the state conferred special benefits on the corporators such as to justify a right of intervention of a kind that does not exist in regard to other business forms ? |
| 9 | The world has invented many industrial processes which often create pollutants of a kind that do not occur in nature at all . |
| 10 | ‘ Scheduling , ’ he repeated blandly with a patience that did n't fool her for an instant . |
| 11 | Our ideas about faith were taken from my readings of Unamuno , and in this poem from one of the essays , ‘ Faith , Hope and Charity ’ , from The Tragic Sense of Life : ‘ A faith that does not doubt is a dead faith . ’ |
| 12 | The French architect Philippe Robert 's new Terra Museum at Giverny , due to open in June , is another fine and thoughtful example of a building that does not pander to a public born with a Mickey gene . |
| 13 | ( 3 ) If the defendant has delivered a defence but does not appear then if the plaintiff so requests and can give evidence of the facts and as to quantum , judgment may be given or alternatively directions ( Ord 17 , r 8 ) . |
| 14 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 15 | No I say Jim , I want a Chinese , I 'll write you a cheque but do n't cash it tonight please . |
| 16 | She took an almost cold shower , then pulled on a clean pair of jeans and found a T-shirt that did n't have too many paint stains on it . |
| 17 | Well , well that brings us on to those of you who do n't have a license and do n't drive , which is my sums are right something like twenty eight of you . |
| 18 | What , what do you do , what do the twenty eight of you who do n't have a license and do n't drive do ? |
| 19 | In contrast , the South Australian ‘ notoriety for profit ’ provisions do not depend upon the existence of a contract and do not provide any mechanism whereby the benefits can be re-directed to the victim of the offender 's crime . |
| 20 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 21 | I wonder if you could possibly give me the address of the ‘ Dogs for the Disabled ’ charity , as I would like to send a donation but do n't know where to send it . |
| 22 | But this will be to no avail if the choreographer is attempting to tell a story and does not have expert advice from musicians of the calibre of Edwin Evans , Constant Lambert and John Lanchbery . |
| 23 | Their claim was based on a privilege that does indeed exist for libel , where the defendant is not required to disclose his sources . |
| 24 | ‘ First and foremost , possum , let me say that I am a housewife and do n't pretend to be anything else [ some mistake surely — Ed ] . |
| 25 | Or we may be determined to catch a horse that does n't want to be caught ; and if we feel it strongly enough , the horse seems to feel our determination too , and suddenly stops running away from us and agrees to being haltered . |
| 26 | If you have a confirmed mudlark , or a horse that does n't like parting with his winter coat , try a cactus cloth or a nifty little gadget called the Unigroom . |
| 27 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 28 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
| 29 | It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him . |
| 30 | It is a programme that does not describe the final form , but a generative programme that contains the instructions for making the shapes . |