Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question arises : is there something about such jobs that directly causes the people who do them to go off sick more than others ? |
| 2 | The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell . |
| 3 | On the other hand it can be argued that the sauropods like Brachiosaurus were so large , and with a relatively small surface area through which to cool compared with their enormous volume , that their cooling rate could have been slow enough to allow them to sustain more continuous activity than smaller , living reptiles . |
| 4 | James Weenes , in a conversation he had with the wife of a London weaver in September 1690 , expressed his opinion that William was " a Dutch Dogg and an Usurper " , who " like a Villain came and took the Crowne from the head of his Father " , and also that " the nobility was a parcel of Rogues and all of them lived as high as Kings . |
| 5 | That 's the thing about pub rock — everyone goes home happy . |
| 6 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 7 | However , these were now too low and my prospects too poor for me to continue along that track . |
| 8 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 9 | Everything around them became slightly abnormal , the new occupation , the environment , the dress they wore , the physical and emotional climate . |
| 10 | They also acquired the railways and many of them became as proud of their state systems as of the other perquisites of the British connection . |
| 11 | Oh , I think the majority always have worked hard , but they , some of them became quite flamboyant and extravagant in their gestures about what they , how they wanted to change things , and I think nowadays they , perhaps sadly , really , they feel they , they ca n't so they just knuckle down to it all . |
| 12 | Local authorities to a very great extent are responsible for the present ‘ grant control ’ which is exercised by Central Government for , whenever in recent years the Central Government have asked them to carry out some new function the local authorities have countered the request by a demand for a Government grant to assist with the new service . |
| 13 | Local authorities will be given a ‘ general power of competence ’ , which will allow them to carry out any beneficial local action which neither duplicates the work of other public bodies nor breaks the law . |
| 14 | My God , George thought , cringing , he wants me to kill off more of that fossilised brain . |
| 15 | Oh erm let me slow down this bit , erm no it 's twen , oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else , I 've seen it but in Argos , Wi , well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me , but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos |
| 16 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , he predeceased Sir Nelson , which made my task a little easier , inasmuch as it was not necessary for me to carry out complicated inquiries in India . |
| 18 | Those were the Somalis , let me make that clear . |
| 19 | Even people like me became more self-confident in Art when he was the teacher . |
| 20 | Their low viscosity consequently allows them to flow over considerable distances . |
| 21 | ‘ A hospital is a system designed to enable me to treat as many patients as possible with the aid of specialised equipment , nursing care , etc . |
| 22 | In a research project I carried out into academic publishing a great deal of the work required me to interview very experienced and knowledgeable publishers and to ask questions which , inevitably , touched on financial matters . |
| 23 | The final condemnation of the change is that no-one consulted formally these top men in the sport before passing the show-stopping law and , furthermore , that the lawmakers left so much still to be ironed out . |
| 24 | Conversation stopped and everyone became frightfully solicitous . |
| 25 | Although it may seem like folly to invest in such buildings , many of them make perfectly good homes and buyers would be helping to preserve Britain 's heritage . |
| 26 | In deepest drought the very top of the curved roofs has occasionally been visible , but until now no-one realised how big the structure really was . |
| 27 | Aye , so you end up marking it then and er , well she did , she got me to go there second time , and he said well you ca n't you see er |
| 28 | In fact , if they do have a complaint , it 's that they would probably like me to go back full time — which is very nice to know ! ’ |
| 29 | Oh it does hurt me to see how much the girls have spent on Christmas wrapping paper |
| 30 | But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be . |