Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Our personal rule is to use braided polyester ( Dacron ) which offers only moderate stretch and can be knotted positively without risk of slipping . |
| 8 | The price is about £940,403 ex VAT , which represents very good value for a yacht of this class . |
| 9 | One is the accelerating rate of development in technological fields , which enforces almost continuous changes in products and processes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | This style , critics allege , is accentuated by Britain 's two-party system and unfair ( because disproportional ) first past the post electoral system , which produces virtually full power for the government and virtual impotence for the opposition . |
| 14 | The developing round peas produce a vital molecule , called starch-branching enzyme , which builds up complex starch molecules from sugar . |
| 15 | On the one hand , the British Government is championing the idea that currencies and economies should be left to compete against each other within a system which encourages both monetary co-operation and national autonomy . |
| 16 | A sentence with an indefinite referent , such as ( 82 ) , on the other hand , simply asserts that there was a snap ( based on the fact that a perceptual event took place ) : because the subject 's referent is indefinite it is the mere occurrence of the infinitival event and not its realization by a certain person or thing which constitutes sufficiently significant information here , whence the acceptability of such uses . |
| 17 | How stable is a system which can not employ an increasing proportion of the population , which leaves half the world destitute , which rides a switchback cycle between boom and bust , which piles up tottering mountains of debt ? |
| 18 | It might not be worth adding a card to a machine which needs only occasional access to the network . |
| 19 | More importantly , the company 's development people have to be able to handle simultaneously a wide range of projects , often at different stages ( feasibility , formulation development , process scale-up ) and generally on different major compounds ; it is experience which develops both scientific competence and real commercial awareness . |
| 20 | ‘ Parliament in my judgment has assumed and contemplated that the testator will have already made his will before he signs and the words in section 9 ( b ) ‘ give effect to the will ’ in my judgment do more naturally suggest that there is a document already in existence which contains either dispositive provisions or something which can properly be described as a testamentary disposition . |
| 21 | Now right , those parameters that we that we will learn will get this model in the end which contains only observable variables , only those , so it will contain prices , actual prices and actual supply alright . |
| 22 | Formalism , as Eikhenbaum makes plain in his summary of its principles , was neither an aesthetic nor a methodology ; it was ‘ characterized only by the attempt to create an independent science of literature which studies specifically literary material ’ ( 1965 : 103 ) . |
| 23 | Using a closed-loop ministep control with rotor position obtained by waveform detection , however , the phase currents can be adjusted so that the rotor is pulled back to the demanded position , giving a system which has effectively infinite stiffness ( Fig. 7.1 5b ) . |
| 24 | What changed the picture were two related processes : commercialization and the formation of modern States , the second of which has most immediate importance for nationalism . |
| 25 | I want to see which has most natural speed . |
| 26 | Holleyman & Treacher , 21a Duke Street , Brighton , East Sussex ( 0273 28007 ) , which is especially strong in music , and a great favourite of Antonia Fraser , and Ken Spelman 's , 70 Mickelgate , York ( 0904 624414 ) , which has particularly strong collections of art and architecture books . |
| 27 | Whilst our competitors in Europe and elsewhere continued to push their training objectives forward , Britain remains the only modern Western European country which has neither national objectives for training nor a statutory work force and , as yet , no unified or progressive system of national qualifications . |
| 28 | ( 1981 ) , for instance , revalue women 's lack of egotism , which has strongly negative implications in psychology , by calling it modesty . |
| 29 | At this stage , evaluate unc and solve the eigenproblem unc for M. Then a new approximation , which has mutually orthogonal columns , is |
| 30 | Timing is good ; this tends to be particularly noticeable in recordings such as the Keith Jarrett interpretation of Bach 's Goldberg Variations , which has superbly organic style that is pulled this way and that , but which never spoils the music or prevents it from working . |