Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are unemployed or retired tend misleadingly to give their former occupation . |
| 2 | Some children of seven or eight know exactly what they are doing but there are some 13-years-olds who do n't seem to know . ’ |
| 3 | Any absences that you 've had erm for sickness full or half pay actually count in full for in these calculations as do erm any maternity leave absence you know providing you were actually receiving pay that 's half pay or more then those absences count as if they have n't actually occurred . |
| 4 | It seems to me that our leaders somehow or another have simply got to be persuaded that we are prepared to sacrifice a very great deal erm to secure erm a new attitude . |
| 5 | Particles of spin 0 , 1 , or 2 do also exist in some circumstances as real particles , when they can be directly detected . |
| 6 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 7 | Yet a mere glance at the list will reveal the predominance of the I form ( 960 times in my count , taking all first-person forms : I/me/my/myself/mine ) and the You or Thou form ( 890 times , including thou/thee/thy/thine/thyself ; you/ye/your/yours/yourself ) , over the third-person forms , where these imply either a third-person account of the beloved ( He in Sonnets 1–126 : 51 times ; She in Sonnets 127–52 : 31 times ) or a reference to some third party with whom the poet or his beloved is having a relationship ( She in Sonnets 1–126 : 11 instances ; He in Sonnets 127–52 : 22 instances ; total 33 ) . |
| 8 | Two or three look so pale and frail , you wonder whether the heat and the heavy robes will all be too much . |
| 9 | Let me say finally , that it 's my intention that we should all starve together , or all survive together . " |
| 10 | A year-long survey of the habits of 24,000 adults in England , Wales and Scotland has found that people with an annual household income of £20,000 or more have considerably higher levels of attendance than those in lower income groups . |
| 11 | Quoted loads were 2,000 kg of cargo or 25 pax over 600 km , or 500 kg over 2,500 km , max cruise 420 kph . |
| 12 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |
| 13 | Exorbitant champagne prices can make the pleasure of marking a special occasion with a bottle or two seem all-too fleeting at such high cost . |
| 14 | And once he makes this decision he he ca n't after a year or two say well no that was wrong , I wo n't I 'll er I 'll change now because he 's only got two years there . |
| 15 | More than two-thirds have previously been involved in making an acquisition and most are in their forties . |
| 16 | We all know that a full moon is not normally conducive to good fishing , so was that half moon enough to make the difference ? |
| 17 | We found that some last only 10 to 30 years and that 's not enough for archives of historical material . |
| 18 | ‘ It is still a very good standard in division two and I would hope that some come here , ’ he said . |
| 19 | But what we learn from interviews , now that Couples is enjoying a run of success that some see as likely to culminate in the Masters title , tells another tale entirely . |
| 20 | I know that some have already taken the plunge and purchased shares in privatised utilities , and I trust that they will encourage their colleagues to do likewise . |
| 21 | Of the 40 guests at Cannigione , slightly more than half sail mainly on the windsurf programme . |
| 22 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the empirical evidence is that these contribute little to individual ageing . |
| 24 | So we just ask that these come forward so that the Council can fully discuss this and make our replies to before they 're formally adopted ? |
| 25 | To provide teachers with the means to easily and quickly identify sexism in children 's literature should they wish to do so [ 'sexism' here to include explicit sexism , i.e. a refusal to acknowledge diversity resulting in a stereotypical portrayal , and implicit sexism , i.e. a tacit acceptance of prevalent inequalities on the basis that these reflect currently accepted norms ] . |
| 26 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 27 | The EFL is not directly imposed on wage and industrial costs , so that these have sometimes risen within the total EFL at the cost of lower investment , higher prices or a reduced quality of service . |
| 28 | The point here is , however , that these represent further rapidly growing sectors which can quite easily be spatially separate from industrial production . |
| 29 | They admit that these represent only one , and not original , point of view . |
| 30 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |