Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing happens and then the whole bloody thing is on top of you before you know it . |
| 2 | Which shows that perhaps a misindica In this situation perhaps the men are seeking agreement rather than the women are , because the women seem to be doing it to actually show concern , rather than to seek agreement , which does n't Turns a lot of the traditional thing about tag questions on it head . |
| 3 | He segregates figures from their background normally , even when they appear on his left ( our first study ) , and even when their segregation depends on vertical symmetry ( our second study ) which requires that both the right and left sides of these figures are represented . |
| 4 | Which means that even the most delicate of dishes will rise to the occasion . |
| 5 | We are running this in the off season , which means that only the Park Department is running motorized rigs and that there are only 25 launches a day . |
| 6 | At the beginning of this year the Louvre became an établissement public administratif , which means that henceforth the director of the museum will also be solely responsible for the whole establishment , which will also have greater financial autonomy . |
| 7 | This contrast is a familiar one in the sociology of policing and the subject of much comment , all of which argues that only a small minority of policemen and women define their work in terms of social service . |
| 8 | The conclusion is supported by a Research Ministry strategy paper , which argues that only the construction of eight new 1,300MW nuclear power stations in conjunction with the increased use of coal/gas combination technology will enable Germany to achieve the desired reduction . |
| 9 | Goals for the future include trying some more dragon boat racing and getting fit again to be selected for next year 's rodeo World Championships in the USA , purely , she says , because it is fun and she wants to paddle abroad , though with a wry grin she concedes that maybe the spirit of competition also burns within her ! |
| 10 | She recognizes that historically the concept has had a significant place in the vocabulary of political theory and notes that legal theorists continue to invoke the concept and argue about its meaning . |
| 11 | But she knows that only a miracle can make her six-month-old son beam back . |
| 12 | This view is shared by Kochan , who argues that only a party with a highly disciplined party with techniques of mass organisation could replace the autocratic system that held a fractured empire together ’ . |
| 13 | Moreover , the more accurately one measures the position , the shorter the wavelength of the light that one needs and hence the higher the energy of a single quantum . |
| 14 | For genotoxic chemicals , risk to the public would be calculated traditionally — that is , one assumes that even the smallest exposures pose risks of excess cancer , and that any increment of the chemical in an organism increases risk of cancer in a linear fashion . |
| 15 | In half a column in the Daily Telegraph he examined the plot and decorated his review with a reference to a Victorian poem but , although he called Mr Begley 's first novel ‘ extraordinary ’ ( which could mean almost anything : one hopes that both the best and the worst books in the world are ‘ extraordinary ’ ) , he made no comment on the worth of the later one . |
| 16 | One hopes that only the first group will inherit the earth . |
| 17 | But he plays that well every , cos every time I see him play he plays hell of bloody suit ! |
| 18 | He admits that it may be possible to use reason to a limited extent , but he insists that ultimately the existence of God defies all proof and has to be based on faith which transcends reason .. |
| 19 | It thinks that even the IFC , particularly in the area of privatisation , is not adventurous enough . |
| 20 | For example an R & ID department can specify " the resources it needs and even the direction of its work . |
| 21 | But maybe he thinks Hollywood is less the big break he needs and more a kind of career prat fall . |
| 22 | He says that almost the entire British planning process could now be in breach of European law . |
| 23 | He says that apparently the ancient Celts who lived around here had no concept of shape . |
| 24 | It happens that only the last of these verb phrases is standard English . |
| 25 | He sees that finally the Masai myths have been overtaken . |
| 26 | This is a striking indication of the role of money in European society as a whole ; it reveals that even the peasantry must have reckoned , under good conditions , to produce , and to sell in the local market , a substantial surplus . |
| 27 | He reckons that today the same job would take only three months . |
| 28 | For the authorities , it ensures that only a relatively sanitized version of events gets out ; for the authors , it means that they do not have to perjure themselves , and has the additional benefit that the gaps — and consequently the restraints under which they have had to work — are obvious to their readers . |
| 29 | In fact , it seems that neither the initial conditions nor the values of the parameters in the theory are arbitrary but that they are somehow chosen or picked out very carefully . |
| 30 | ‘ You became quite — Oh , all right , then ; it seems that tonight the choices are n't mine . |