Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 2 | The ACCA thinks that too much weight is placed on NEDs and that more emphasis should be given to other mechanisms , such as internal audit and control . |
| 3 | Some organisations not only pay disturbance allowances but provide removal grants as well . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the T-shirt stalls that usually clutter the Venice Beach Boardwalk disappeared and were replaced by quaint bookstores and outdoor caféd from the Sixties , so convincingly real that residents of the area walked into them , only to be thrown out by laughing security guards . |
| 5 | Music 's potential contribution to the debate and to children 's development of musical concepts and skills has as yet not been researched thoroughly . |
| 6 | It is greatly to be hoped that some version of the censorship hypothesis holds because close to naked singularities it may be possible to travel into the past . |
| 7 | You put yourself into cold storage for two years as far as any kind of political practice goes and just sit and think — and do n't forget you 'll get paid £5000 a year to sit and think about the purity of the struggle we 're all fighting back here . ’ |
| 8 | Besides what happens if Rocky goes and then Strach gets injured , who do we have as cover in the midfield — Hodge , he 's hardly played much first team footballer and his whilst his goal scoring skills are fine he is not in the same class as Rocky or Strachan . |
| 9 | You just get up when Steven goes and then |
| 10 | Combining this with his NMR work , Hawkins concludes that somehow the carbon atoms of any C2 units must disconnect before or after they form the fullerene structure . |
| 11 | Mill 's most famous innovation lay in his claim that quality of pleasure counts as well as quantity . |
| 12 | Which was a bad move as I hate jazz bores and usually much prefer the company of bored typists from Willesden . |
| 13 | But faded switches , pickup covers and so on have been next to impossible to find . |
| 14 | The Consumers ' Association says that rather than give half the cover price to retailers , they prefer to sink the money into campaigning work and more investigations . |
| 15 | A report by the European Regional Airlines Association says that only 2 per cent of transport emissions come from aircraft , compared to 94 per cent from motor vehicles . |
| 16 | G. assumes that somehow the oil is escaping into the canal . |
| 17 | Whereas the tolerance here 'd be I du n no eighth of an inch here eighth of an inch there he says the advert says as soon as you have tolerances like that then thing work loose and start rattling and creaking and |
| 18 | The United Nations ' World Food Programme says that more than 20m Africans will depend on food aid this year — more , by far , than during the horrors in the Horn of Africa six years ago . |
| 19 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 20 | Colin Calderwood says that everywhere you go people stop and wave and that 's very nice but it 's been good to get away this week but now they 're back in town the pressure will start to build |
| 21 | ( The NEDC says that already 16 000 more programmers are needed . ) |
| 22 | But the Humane Society of the United States says that nearly 40% of the animals that wind up in shelters are pure-breds or their mongrel offspring . |
| 23 | Proust says that rather like those thin , flat pieces of coloured paper called Japanese flowers , which expand and become indeed three-dimensional when placed in water , similarly the taste of the madeleine brings back , not an abstract intellectual idea of the past , but the authentic sensation of his experiences as a small boy in the houses and the streets and the gardens of Combray . |
| 24 | Convection occurs when too much heat is present at depth to be conveyed upwards solely by thermal conduction . |
| 25 | The iron and steel industry of Rotherham exists because long ago iron ore was mined locally as well as coal . |
| 26 | So , many leading-edge manufacturers are searching for ways to enhance their workers ' capabilities and improve labour relations , even as they look to the new technology to cut labour costs as well . ’ |
| 27 | Ironically , Morrissey being a great thinker , The Smiths dilemma shows that just not enough thought is put into rock . |
| 28 | Chairman Sir Tony Cleaver complains that unusually , reductions in product costs were unable to keep pace with price trends in the market . |
| 29 | Currently one in workers suffers from depression in Northern Ireland , and absenteeism because of the condition exceeds that even for ulcers , diabetes , high blood pressure or arthritis . |
| 30 | Assuming a lead-time of approximately six years , i.e. the time taken between starting to train and ultimately being elected a full member of the Division , this figure shows that over half of those building surveyors now practising started their education during the period 1967–75 . |