Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tune goes lower which tune ? |
| 2 | The bed on the brass probably represents that which Lambarde purchased in 1584 , for the birth of his first child , a boy named Multon in honour of his previous wife 's father . |
| 3 | The country produces half its electricity from 12 nuclear plants , the highest proportion of nuclear power per inhabitant in the world . |
| 4 | Sweden currently produces half its electricity requirements through nuclear power — more than any other country in the world . |
| 5 | A person or animal inherits half its genes from each parent . |
| 6 | He has sub-titled his talk ‘ A Layman 's View ’ , but you can expect some thought-provoking views . |
| 7 | He has sub-titled his talk ‘ A Layman 's View ’ , but John has regular conversations with railwaymen . |
| 8 | This agreement is the most significant , bilateral agreement between two European unions in different nation states and covers some one point seven million members and I was most heartened colleagues , with the er , welcoming comments that were made by brother David from Durham City Central er , clerical branch from the Northern Region in his address . |
| 9 | This little brute Matilda or whatever her name is has stink-bombed my study ! |
| 10 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 11 | The feeling that someone lives all his life in it , works in it , thinks in it , is it . |
| 12 | When an emergency situation arises the pilot needs all his wits about him . |
| 13 | I 'll treat him as someone who needs all my sympathy and understanding . |
| 14 | Though I hope young Pamela would not be in danger from her master who owes all his servants protection as much as the king does to his subjects . |
| 15 | and get the sheet printed out that has all their courses on it . |
| 16 | Rosa Guy is also very descriptive and emotional in her writing , one of my favourite descriptions is on pages 53–54 which tells us how Mrs Aimsley has all her glasses set out on shelves and the higher the shelf , the more expensive the glass and of course not being used to drinking out of glasses , Imamu takes the most expensive type from which to drink milk and syrup and after washing and drying it , he put it back on the shelf , but as he takes his hand away , the glass tips over and falls , smashing on the sink . |
| 17 | We are all glad that she has arrived safely and has all her faculties ! |
| 18 | Flagelliflory , the presentation of flowers on long peduncles , occurs in several unrelated groups and is generally associated with bat pollination , but a whole family of plants in a wide range of habitats in tropical America has all its species bat-pollinated with the flowers projecting above the canopy ; namely the Caryocaraceae . |
| 19 | The conventions of impermanence , where the cat breaks all its teeth or has all its hair burned off or is squashed flat and , the next moment , becomes whole again , seem to be peculiar to the comic strip and the animated cartoon . |
| 20 | It combines my favourite neck profile with my favourite pickup configuration and has all its controls in the proper places . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side . |
| 22 | The Government must try to arrange its business to ensure that the Commons does not have all its work at the beginning of the session and the House of Lords has all its work at the end . |
| 23 | A regular polygon has all its sides and all its angles equal . |
| 24 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 25 | He has all my sizes . |
| 26 | Erm , but those , that has all my appointments on , and I use a very simple system of crossed hatching when I am away from my base for , for the bulk of the day . |
| 27 | ‘ My dad has got very spiky hair and glasses and his face looks like mine , but he still has all his teeth . |
| 28 | I has all his trademarks and more : male impotence and self-importance ; female oppression and revenge ; and acerbic wit that cuts swathes through any passing target . |
| 29 | It has all his hallmarks , Fran . |
| 30 | Hodder has published Lord Archer since Kane and Abel in 1979 — he had previously been published by Cape — and has all his fiction in print in Coronet paperback ; contrary to rumour , Coronet retains this backlist . |