Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then it should be available to all , so anybody who goes to stand in when they 're off with er , broken legs ! |
| 2 | So far , the central committee has received more than 10,000 letters suggesting how these documents could be improved . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the Royal Society has received more than 500 applications from scientists for its own 30 ‘ elite ’ new blood fellowships . |
| 4 | So far , it has received more than 2,000 complaints . |
| 5 | The Institute has received more than 250 responses to the document , which are currently being analysed . |
| 6 | Touche Ross says that it has received more than 200 enquiries , including three ‘ serious ’ bids from the UK plus others from Japan , Hong Kong , Taiwan and the US . |
| 7 | Is he aware that in south-east London — and serving my Dulwich constituency — is Haberdashers ' Aske 's city technology college , which has received more than 800 applications for 180 places ? |
| 8 | As Rhodes ( 1985 ) notes , sub-national government in the UK has developed extensively because until the 1970s it was the prime vehicle for building the welfare state . |
| 9 | This has developed rapidly since James Watson and Francis Crick broke the genetic code in 1962 by uncovering the structure of DNA and has opened up not only abstract genetic knowledge but the manipulation of genes and the basis of life itself . |
| 10 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |
| 11 | Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream . |
| 12 | This third National Government , like the Conservative-Liberal Unionist coalition of 1895–1905 , was the type of coalition government with which British history is much more familiar : a coalition between one major party and a fragment from another which has broken off because it disagrees with one of its parent party 's central tenets — in 1886 Home Rule , in 1931 unwillingness to reduce unemployment benefit on the part of Labour and unwillingness to tamper with free trade in the case of the Liberals . |
| 13 | We 're the one 's who unashamedly say , Europe has to go forward if it does n't go backwards . |
| 14 | And he has to go abroad before he dare have a heart attack . |
| 15 | Caring for your skin needs to go deeper than superficial ‘ beauty care ’ confined to the face . |
| 16 | This farming systems has proved self-sustainable for the past 2,000 years and has altered little except that summer ( wet season ) rice crops were once combined in the same fields with winter ( dry season ) legumes , whereas the winter crop is now wheat . |
| 17 | The Department of Transport goes on : ’ But the project has altered considerably since ’ — the Department admits that — ’ and a lot of that information is no longer current , particularly on the revenue side . |
| 18 | The pattern of employment has altered radically since our traditional industries began . |
| 19 | The ladder is broken ; it has rusted through because I left it out in the rain . |
| 20 | Several hours later the bird 's relieved owner arrived at the station , explaining the parrot has flown off as she took it to her grandchildren for a treat . |
| 21 | Cos the one thing you always get when you 've got a mixture of people , I mean , all thi this needs recovering basically as well . |
| 22 | GLAMOROUS grannie Barbara Flanagan never has to shop around when she fancies a new outfit she simply reaches into her stocks of material and rustles something up . |
| 23 | Glamorous grandmother Barbara Flanagan never has to shop around when she fancies a new outfit — she simply reaches in her stocks of material and rustles something up . |
| 24 | For some strange , probably mildly salacious , reason , it is the ‘ breeches ’ that popular interest has fastened on though , etymologically , there are other words of equal interest . |
| 25 | The real value of excise duty revenue from Scotch peaked in 1983/84 and with minor and temporary exceptions , has fallen steadily since that date ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 26 | So my marriage has fallen apart because of these people sat here that think they know everything . |
| 27 | Over the past few decades , the world 's demand for tin has fallen dramatically as packagers have reduced the thickness of the metal in tinplate or have turned to other materials for their containers , aluminium for instance . |
| 28 | Despite statements by Neil Kinnock and John Smith that Labour would not devalue , the sterling/deutschmark rate has fallen more than three pfennings to 2.8308 since the start of the campaign . |
| 29 | In this country , under his Government , unemployment is going up faster , investment is lower and production has fallen more than in any other European country . |
| 30 | In 1964 , Lord Gardiner , who shortly afterwards became Lord Chancellor himself , said that since 1951 ‘ one or two ’ Lord Chancellors ( there had been only three ) ‘ felt that the standard of members of the bar going into the House of Commons has fallen noticeably since the war , and if you want the right men in the House of Commons then you must reward the man who votes the right way with a judgeship ’ . |