Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so with the GR-1 ; all of us here have sat and played it and no-one has had too much difficulty adjusting to the GR 's demands in a very short space of time . |
| 2 | According to Nigel , ‘ everyone wants to get as much for himself and hang on to it : that 's the definition of conservatism ’ . |
| 3 | It 's pretty obvious , at least to onlookers , when someone has had too much to drink . |
| 4 | Nobody has bothered very much with their theories which have become imaginative curios to be put on the shelf with the books ‘ proving ’ that Queen Elizabeth I was a man , Queen Victoria had a love child , and that Pope John Paul I was murdered . |
| 5 | We know , then , that he can play a little — after all , nobody has won as many tour events in a year since Bob Tway in 1986 — but we did n't know he could make an audience laugh , or that he had such an offbeat approach to the game . |
| 6 | Les and Peg seemed to have uncovered a simple truth which has evaded so many of us . |
| 7 | This and other transformations , rendered in the beautiful Technicolor of the 1940s ( which has faded far less than the colour processes of the 1950s and '60s ) , call on the state-of-the-art technology of the period , which still looks very sophisticated . |
| 8 | Car parks in accessible areas like Glencoe have been full to capacity according to the area 's rescue team , which has recorded as many as 150 people going up Stob Coire nan Lochan in one morning . |
| 9 | The result has been that a century which has seen so much development in terms of resources and method in historical research , has also seen a recurrent historical scepticism in theology . |
| 10 | It is particularly appropriate that this first annual review from the Institute and Faculty comes at the end of a year which has seen so much co-operation between our two organisations . |
| 11 | The League 's management committee has decided to invite the two candidates it agreed upon on Monday for interview , but the head-hunting process which has caused so much vexation is threatening the ultimate embarrassment . |
| 12 | The League 's management committee has decided to invite the two candidates it agreed upon on Monday for interview , but the head-hunting process which has caused so much vexation is threatening the ultimate embarrassment . |
| 13 | All these cases , and similar cases heard in other jurisdictions , were reviewed in the landmark case Caparo Industries plc v Dickman ( 1990 ) 2 AC 605 HL which has caused so much controversy . |
| 14 | From this perspective we can return again , and finally , to the ambivalence of mystical power which has caused so much unnecessary confusion in anthropological writing on religion , magic and witchcraft . |
| 15 | Before I hand over to Dave to tell his side of the story , I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dave , Richard , Liz and all the JM staff at sites around the country who helped to organise this event which has raised so much for our Charity of the Year . |
| 16 | They follow the profession of shepherds , which has spawned so many prophets , for it is a contemplative , philosophical and benign occupation . |
| 17 | It is an uninhabited and notoriously hostile desert , which has contributed as much as the Nile 's cataracts to the historical isolation of Sudan . |
| 18 | Given philosophy 's interest in the foundations of human knowledge it is not surprising that it should spend a considerable amount of its concern with science , the form of human knowledge which has achieved so much . |
| 19 | This explains the bardolatry which has dominated so much writing about Shakespeare . |
| 20 | The study of prospective memory is a topic which has attracted relatively little research and is not well understood , however , there has recently been an increase of interest in this area ( e.g. Ceci & Bronfenbrenner , 1985 ; Harris , 1984 ; Ellis , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | And the issue is not simply that of deteriorating staff-student ratios , which has attracted so much attention , but at least as much a question of capital investment . |
| 22 | And , given the much valued British tradition of attending a university or polytechnic away from home , who will fund the additional sleeping accommodation for students , the absence of which has attracted so much adverse publicity this week ? |
| 23 | Assuming that the Congress , which has wasted so much time so far , does not get round to final approval of any of the versions of the constitution , Mr Yeltsin could either wait until its next scheduled meeting in the autumn , seeking a compromise with parliament . |
| 24 | Scott was in fact a poet of considerable skill himself a founding father , no less , of Canada 's emerging poetry movement , and the doyen of poetry in Montreal , which has produced so many excellent poets . |
| 25 | I welcomed the computer initiative in schools , which has brought so much innovation to our schools , from the primary age up . |
| 26 | As my hon. Friend knows , the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland with responsibility for industry — my hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood ( Mr. Stewart ) — has co-ordinated the work of the Lanarkshire working group , which has brought together many local authorities , public bodies and private sector bodies . |
| 27 | One , we set up a w er er a working group which has brought together that consultation addressed that consultation argument and I would point out that Mr amendment er does clearly enshrine that as obviously something which is now seen as useful , er and I think that 's important . |
| 28 | Shares in Thames slipped on fears that the company may not be able to shake off the jinx which has dogged so many American acquisitions by British foragers . |
| 29 | Top-seed Jim Courier and fourth-ranked Boris Becker managed to avoid the plague which has claimed so many of their rivals , including two-time defending champion Stefan Edberg . |
| 30 | Top-seed Jim Courier and fourth-ranked Boris Becker managed to avoid the plague which has claimed so many of their rivals , including two-time defending champion Stefan Edberg . |