Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime we do the best we can , some of us preferring to pretend causality exists , and others , others preferring to prefer its absence . |
| 2 | A PUBLICAN who set fire to his car and tried to claim insurance has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service . |
| 3 | Two of the main instructions found in the autoexec.bat are PROMPT , and PATH , in which the DOS directory should be included to enable DOS commands to be called up from any location . |
| 4 | After another two weeks the fry will be ready for newly hatched brine shrimp and you will need to conduct water changes every day , removing all uneaten food . |
| 5 | In our case the field strength of the Nottingham home built imaging system utilises a 0.52 tesla superconductive magnet , corresponding to a resonance frequency for protons of 22 MHz . |
| 6 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 7 | * If you work in open food areas you are only permitted to wear wedding rings without stones , sleeper earrings and identity bracelets/necklaces worn for medical purposes . ’ |
| 8 | And two , Healthmaster is designed to meet client needs in the following areas . |
| 9 | In contrast with the technological fixation which had previously dominated the control strategies of many states , the EPA stressed that the state implementation plan ( SIP ) should consider incorporating transportation controls to reduce the distance travelled by all vehicles , new and old alike . |
| 10 | Seasun Tentrek has dropped under-occupancy surcharges on its apartments and tents for any holidays taken after August 21 , which can make a considerable saving . |
| 11 | This increase is not just for number crunching ; the system has been installed to meet user needs for Personal Productivity [ wordprocessing and spreadsheets ] and Information Access [ library catalogues and databases ] . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that the USSR will need to finance imports of food , high technology and machinery to the value of $42 billion between 1984–1987 and would therefore need to increase energy exports to the West to about 150 MTOE per year . |
| 13 | So instead of specifying case frames ( or indeed semantic features ) for each individual word , Schank only needs to provide case frames for the primitives . |
| 14 | • Dusit Hotels and Resorts , Thailand ( eight hotels ) : has planted one tree for each of its hotel rooms , separates and recycles waste , uses unbleached and undyed cotton for sheets and towels in new hotels , has installed silver reflects , lowering the number of light bulbs used by half ; uses solar panels for hot water supply , has fitted water flow regulators in taps and showers and has introduces a ‘ wet-down , soap-up and rinse-off ’ campaign to promote water conservation , sponsors environmental seminars and is now initiating a ‘ green wing ’ scheme — a wing of guest rooms in every hotel converted to an eco-friendly environment , to be monitored over two years to see how energy consumption compares with standard rooms . |
| 15 | Barton , 23 , an England B international who has also been linked with the Gunners , is a versatile player who has won rave notices since joining the Dons from Maidstone two years ago . |
| 16 | When a challenge has not , at a certain point in time , been countered by a riposte , then the person who has suffered injury has come under the symbolic power of the challenger . |
| 17 | Secondly , Panzer has noticed solution forms at the base of several small isolated rocks , which would not have sufficient surface area to allow a large amount of surface water to collect . |
| 18 | It raised hopes for a quick end to a 51-hour siege that began in a bloody shoot-out on Sunday morning as federal agents tried to serve arrest warrants on Koresh for firearms offences . |
| 19 | Further work with such pupils which has shown success has included structuring games in which poorly accepted pupils were paired with moderately accepted pupils ; modelling with guided examples on film and video was also found to be helpful in terms of social acceptance . |
| 20 | She has had skin grafts since being badly burned in the Siberian train disaster . |
| 21 | Lathwell , 20 , has had rave reviews recently , hitting two 70s against Essex and 93 in the Benson and Hedges Cup quarter-final win against Worcestershire . |
| 22 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 23 | Tie Rack has got cartoon ties in silk at £14.99 , superhero ties with Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk , also at £14.99 , and a selection of other plain and patterned ties from £9.99 to £35 . |
| 24 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 25 | As partners at Middlesex we tried to steal Test matches off each other when England were only playing one spinner , and it made us into better bowlers . |
| 26 | Alfred McAlpine has supplied roofing slates for the new St Joseph 's Convent and Convalescent Home , which has just won a Centenary Bournemouth Civic Design Award . |
| 27 | This is only the second time that 6203 has hauled passenger trains at the Centre , the first was in November 1991 when thick fog rather spoilt any photographic opportunities . |
| 28 | The quality of craftsmanship and interesting shape of the tiles designed to convect heat shows that even at this early date , the room stove was an important decorative object as well as an efficient source of energy . |
| 29 | So if you definitely want to combine spreadsheet ranges with charts and other graphics — arrows , annotations and so on — SuperCalc is not to be recommended but if you want a powerful DOS spreadsheet , which is capable of professional looking results and highly informative graphs , then SuperCalc 5.5 provides all the features you need and is a bargain at only £79 . |
| 30 | If you want to use Castle Drachenfels in conjunction with The Enemy Within campaign , it is best used after Power Behind the Throne or later . |