Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those who took part in the sessions found it enjoyable and good fun , ’ commented Andrew , ‘ and although everyone has not yet managed to pack it in , the early feedback is encouraging . ’ |
| 2 | The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted . |
| 3 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 4 | That is absolutely right , and nothing has more clearly revealed the Opposition 's attitude to people 's wishes in the matter than their persistent hostility to the 4 million or more people who have taken out personal pensions for exactly that reason . |
| 5 | Since the publication of Boris Shalotsky 's The Semiology of Lawn-Mowers : inflections of the genre , nothing has more graphically encapsulated bourgeois Angst than the disputed merits of different lawn-mowers . |
| 6 | I 'm amazed someone has n't already lynched the kids we think responsible . ’ |
| 7 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 8 | And , and we sort of no yours does n't necessarily apply to some people to say , they might just think , oh it 'll be |
| 9 | The rationale is interesting , and as so often with Justinian it has a moralistic flavour : ‘ because it is quite ridiculous and unreasonable that an object which someone does not absolutely possess among his property he should be able to transfer to others or charge as a hypothec or pledge or manumit and deceive the hopes of others . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Just because I knew Mills was suspected of betraying someone does not necessarily mean that I had anything to do with his unfortunate death . |
| 11 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 12 | Because somebody goes up ahead do n't they ? |
| 13 | This better reflects the corporate nature of transport , which involves not only Planning and Highways but also the Police , Education and Social Work . |
| 14 | The ribber , which knits not only welts but patterned ribs ( for example , Fisherman 's rib , punch tuck rib ) . |
| 15 | From Wiggen there is a postbus service to Marbach and Schangnau ( Official Timetable No 460. 50 ) and this also continues along the road which turns off sharply left at Schangnau , leading along the bank of the Emme to Bumbach and Kemmeriboden . |
| 16 | Although alcohol is widely used for motor fuel nobody has yet extensively developed liquid alcohol as an alternative source of cooking fuel . |
| 17 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 18 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 19 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 20 | Such a strategy would undermine EC initiatives for sweeping global reductions in CO2 emissions , but would be likely to appeal to the US Administration , which has thus far failed to set any formal targets for reducing carbon output . |
| 21 | The new commitment has been made conditional on other countries taking similar action , which was interpreted by analysts as a reference to the United States , which has thus far refused to agree to reduction targets . |
| 22 | In a related development , the EC environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , strongly criticized the latest draft of the Convention on Climate Change as a " sellout " to accommodate the interests of the US government ( which has thus far refused to commit itself to specific emission reductions ) . |
| 23 | Suffice to have the benefits of their research , which has thus far produced the ultimate in extreme strength for smallest diameter . |
| 24 | At the time of the announcement , the Stoddard share price rose from around 37p to 45p , a gain of 21% which has since steadily held its position . |
| 25 | This is called a ‘ methyl migration ’ and the methyl which has just oxidatively added in reaction ( 1 ) → ( 2 ) moves onto the carbon of an adjacent carbon monoxide on the metal . |
| 26 | This is called a ‘ methyl migration ’ and the methyl which has just oxidatively added in reaction ( 1 ) — ( 2 ) moves onto the carbon of an adjacent carbon monoxide on the metal . |
| 27 | It was he , writing in the issue of 15 September 1941 , who called the thirties the ‘ Pink Decade ’ , which has n't really stuck , though it seems that he coined the term ‘ Greeneland ’ to define the peculiar territory of Graham Greene 's fiction . |
| 28 | Montgomery Square turned out to be in that part of Pimlico which has not yet become fashionable again , though some of the houses at one end appeared to be newly painted . |
| 29 | The branch obtained last year from Chirbury to Minsterley remains with its ground unbroken , and yet the directors of the Bishop 's Castle are not ashamed to appear in Parliament with a demand to use so much of the Cambrian as will permit the former to effect communication with the Mid-Wales , another abortion over which no one can be found to preside save Mr Whalley , and which has not yet ventured to publish a return of traffic , or to submit an account of its income and expenditure for public inspection . |
| 30 | Indeed , as many as four out of every five American homosexuals may have acquired such an immune deficiency which has not yet reached the full-blown AIDS stage . |