Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a protozoon divides , its two offspring have almost the same numbers as the parent , but one of them has just one number augmented by 1 and the other has just one number decreased by 1 . |
| 2 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 3 | Well , I suggest someone nips over next door to see if we can borrow a room — that is , if it is felt that we need actually to discuss anything more . " |
| 4 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 5 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 6 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 7 | Now that 's what I call music • All ‘ street entertainers ’ at the Edinburgh Festival who insist on miming , unicycling or juggling novelty items are forced to partake in that oldest of street entertainment : tarring and feathering • Soccer 's new premier league is renamed ‘ The Premium Interest Super Plug Golden Accountant League ’ • Someone explains why American riots are caused by ‘ poverty and injustice ’ and British riots are caused by ‘ joy-riders and anarchists ’ • A Telethon is held to raise money for the fourth Trident Sub , rather than the essential services of our country • New laws to curb the press include compulsory dope testing for pop columnists • The KLF reveal Eldorado was just their latest Situ-prank • The Groucho replaces the goatee in the fashionable facial hair stakes . |
| 8 | Currently , Radio I devotes over 5,000 hours a year to recording musicians in its own studios , as well as at live concert performances . |
| 9 | There are two types of Head Hugger available — the 0–9 month variety which fits all 0–9 month car seats , and the Universal Head Hugger , which fits all car seats , using velcro fastening to secure it into position . |
| 10 | This is a field which involves rather different skills from those needed for advertising , and some agencies , my own for one , have a separate design department to handle this type of job . |
| 11 | Sport is high-performance stuff varied with a bit of club golf played by famous people or a marathon which involves both top athletes and the general public . |
| 12 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 13 | Calor 's continuing sponsorship of the Nationals , which involves over 400 teams in five divisions , has been rewarded with great enthusiasm and some staggering catches . |
| 14 | ‘ Business enterprises can survive only with the approval of the community in which they operate and they have an interest in revealing information which displays how differing interests are being balanced for the benefit of the whole community . |
| 15 | The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time . |
| 16 | Leigh is sitting in the sunshine in Spain , taking a break from filming a new series of his BBC TV drama Kinsey , which goes out next month . |
| 17 | We 're giving away 120 tickets to see the band live on their UK tour which kicks off next month . |
| 18 | Whelan is one of 700 entered in the annual ordeal , which offers just 40 cards for next year 's £25 million circuit . |
| 19 | With a Midland High Interest Cheque Account ( HICA ) you have the perfect combination of high interest and ready access plus a HICA card which offers even greater flexibility , 24 hours a day . |
| 20 | Our personal rule is to use braided polyester ( Dacron ) which offers only moderate stretch and can be knotted positively without risk of slipping . |
| 21 | Easing the restrictions could help restart TV commercials ' production in Dublin , now almost at a standstill , adds Jim Nolan , director , IAPI ( Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland ) which represents nearly all ad agencies . |
| 22 | One way to avoid selective cover only would be for the government to insist on a compulsory levy on all commercial insurance policies , and this has been suggested by the Association of Insurers and Risk Manager in Industry and Commerce ( AIRMIC ) which represents about 300 UK insurance buyers . |
| 23 | The price is about £940,403 ex VAT , which represents very good value for a yacht of this class . |
| 24 | One is the accelerating rate of development in technological fields , which enforces almost continuous changes in products and processes . |
| 25 | In terms of closeness to hearing children 's reading , deaf children are only within striking distance between the ages of 7 and 8 years and thereafter suffer significant decline in relative performance which produces very poor performance by the time they leave school . |
| 26 | One of the main innovations is the ‘ diamond deflection system ’ which produces very realistic rebounds depending on which way the ball and player are travelling . |
| 27 | In a pipe organ of quality each pipe is a carefully-designed and individually-voiced musical instrument which produces only one frequency of sound . |
| 28 | At this afternoon 's meeting the government will hear calls for concerted action against Norway which produces as much salmon as the rest of Europe put together . |
| 29 | At this afternoon 's meeting the government heard calls for concerted action against Norway which produces as much salmon as the rest of Europe put together . |
| 30 | ‘ Plugging ’ , in all its aspects , represents an authoritarian distribution system which produces psychologically weak individuals eager to identify with authority ; for such immature personalities , listening can be described in terms of neuroses . |