Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Y'know what is , you might say , if you got a question on groups , I 'm using groups hypothetically here because that 's the thing that we 've just done , ok ?
2 If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed :
3 the need to plan operations as efficiently as possible for a given level of resources ( or budgeted level of income if a statutory authority is expected to largely generate its own income ) ;
4 Sheep are particularly sensitive to phyto-oestrogens ( presumably because they crop pastures more closely than cows ) ; the substances can cause infertility , difficult labour and lactation in unbred ewes .
5 Some processes do not reproduce pictures very well and the subject needs to be in bold relief without too much fussiness , whereas other processes are able to reproduce every detail .
6 Contrary to left-wing and anti-fascist claims , the police at the highest levels were not biased in favour of fascism , even if there were problems of interpretation of the law in developing conflict situations at the street level amongst the junior ranks and local magistrates treated anti-fascists more harshly than fascists .
7 This , the government believes , will make schools more directly and effectively accountable to parents , and more responsive to their criticisms and wishes .
8 Folk said only trust foreigners as far as th'could see 'em — no further .
9 Even if it is not easy to make changes , it is important to begin widening horizons as soon as possible .
10 More often his thoughts , feelings and responses centre on his inner world , his imagery and on understanding phenomena both inside and outside himself .
11 It is difficult not to infer that they grew to suffer deprivations more impatiently and to believe more strongly that earthly happiness was attainable .
12 It is worth noting that a matching problem arises akin to that discussed in Section 15.3 ; the sample can be selected to mimic the population distribution of stratifying variables either individually or in combination .
13 Please send entries as soon as possible .
14 I do not count calories any more and I eat three meals a day .
15 Descartes had held that such a language could be so devised as to ‘ assist men 's judgement , representing matters so clearly that it would be almost impossible to go wrong ’ .
16 The hon. Lady knows those ferry owners as well as I do .
17 You do n't enjoy things so much when you get older . ’
18 ‘ But surely we ca n't need reinforcements as desperately as all that , ’ Woodruffe said .
19 All of these hunt rabbits both above and below ground .
20 Note that failure does not include collection failure — the absence of the sought item or topic from the collection ; one of the functions of a good catalogue is to inform users as quickly as possible that the library does not hold what they are looking for .
21 As we suggest in more detail in Chapters 2 and 3 , you will be able to find materials more easily and see the best arrangement for them when you have formed a sense of what you are looking for .
22 At the Battle of Stirling Bridge , he took the field against Wallace but , when he saw how the battle was proceeding , changed sides once more and shared in the Scottish victory .
23 ‘ He was a soldier , you know , ’ she had said , podding peas so rapidly that Sally-Anne was full of awe for such expertise , pea-podding being difficult , she had discovered .
24 Afterwards he wondered whether he visited parishes less often than his predecessor and took the trouble to work it out .
25 Both general practitioners and non-medical staff mentioned benefits more often than costs .
26 The problem arises when you fall from a screen above and land on ‘ monkey features ’ : wham bam , every single life lost ! — smacked bums all round and general loss of brownie points .
27 The power that this greater control over technology gives men lies somewhere near the root of many of the problems which beset women both inside and outside the workplace , yet until recently it is a subject that has been strangely neglected .
28 c Models Experience suggests that the principle of keeping sufferers as long as possible at home is interpreted in different ways by different agencies .
29 The texture of a school may be made up of old-fashioned and perhaps idealized certainties as far as parents are concerned .
30 People were nevertheless quick to identify an interested argument and they did not feel disagreements less keenly because they understated them .
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