Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 is helpful if somebody points out such mistakes to you . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | It was the sound of mud and moisture , the kind of sound which conjures up bare seashores with the tide far out and clear skies overhead . |
| 5 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 6 | Even G. D. H. Cole , far more critical of the Communists than Strachey , could not see " any sharp line which marks off British Communists from other British Socialists " . |
| 7 | Each language has its own phraseology , its own idiom which rules out many options that are potentially available as grammatical sequences . |
| 8 | THE incidence of sexually-transmitted diseases among Plymouth 's prostitutes has been cut by Britain 's only mobile Aids clinic , which hands out free condoms and needles to intravenous drug users . |
| 9 | The phenomenon here may be the breaking up ( perhaps by storm ) of the hard crusty surface which forms over deep lakes of liquid mud in the Arabah rift valley where this incident occurred . |
| 10 | To complete the game you need to photograph all 16 inventions , each of which takes over 20 shots ! |
| 11 | The social chapter , which takes up three pages of the 134-page treaty , is merely a statement of intent to implement a social dimension within the EC . |
| 12 | A ten minute tea-break , a telephone call , a brief conversation , anything which breaks up large blocks of concentration , improves efficiency . |
| 13 | Which opens up other areas cover . |
| 14 | It is the VPK which draws up detailed contracts for production ministries , legally binding on all parties . |
| 15 | Deviancy , so the argument runs , has its roots in generational conflict which appears along cultural lines . |
| 16 | Richards holds that in poetry the function of " feeling " tends to dominate that of " sense " , while Jakobson identifies a special " poetic " function , which can be found in many uses of language , but which dominates over other functions in poetry . |
| 17 | SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns . |
| 18 | The DoE spokesman said : ‘ This issue is governed by the Waste Collection and Disposal Regulation ( 1992 ) , which sets out various categories of waste that are lifted . |
| 19 | ‘ This is governed by the Waste Collection and Disposal Regulation ( 1992 ) , which sets out various categories of waste which are lifted . |
| 20 | There is a distinction in principle between a book which sets out original ideas , and justifies them ( a MONOGRAPH ) , and a book whose primary function is to distil and tell you what other people 's ideas are ( a TEXTBOOK ) . |
| 21 | The acceptance of a contract which sets out detailed conditions of service , hours worked and parents met is unlikely to provide the flexibility that is required for schools to respond quickly , humanely and sympathetically to family needs . |
| 22 | This Bill , which sets out detailed mechanisms for settling disputes , could be passed early next week . |
| 23 | The board was reconstituted with a majority of key employers from within the industry , its operations and financial systems have been restructured and a strategic plan has been produced which sets out clear objectives against which the success of the board 's actions can be judged . |
| 24 | Though involving less spectacular rates of uplift , crustal unloading by denudation is a far more pervasive process which extends over long periods of time , in contrast to the rather transient effects of deglaciation and evaporation of lakes . |
| 25 | Around forty senior figures from the Catholic church attended the ceremony which dates back many centuries . |
| 26 | And that could mean the end for the peace camp which dates back eleven years . |
| 27 | Their waste , or " tailings " , contains a high proportion of sulphur which leaches out toxic metals . |
| 28 | For Francesca , who 's almost 3 , suffers from a brain disorder which triggers off convulsive fits . |
| 29 | Irrespective of the style of the piece , all music creates tension and release ( dissonance and consonance ) which brings on different emotions in its audience . |
| 30 | Caps are to be awarded but after two Test defeats in New Zealand Fouroux has had a clearout which brings in four newcomers and creates a largely unfamiliar pack designed to take on Australia next month . |