Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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31 The teacher and student get to know each other well , and therefore work in a relaxed productive way .
32 The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme .
33 Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate …
34 Other tongues suggested that Valentin was Elena 's illegitimate child by another man , but the chronology of his gestation and birth seems to rule that out as malicious gossip .
35 This is an intolerable situation and society has to remove those who will not conform to reasonable standards of behaviour .
36 People who ooze experience , self-confidence and charisma appear to find most aspects of teaching easy ; many of the best drama teachers I 've seen working , however , are quiet and self-effacing , and I 've seen relatively inexperienced young students running very successful whole group drama sessions .
37 Although the concentration and effort required to do this may sometimes produce fatigue , this is temporary and in no way signifies that sight will ‘ wear out ’ with use .
38 The product runs on IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun and Sequent Unix servers or on the mainframe , and Peregrine plans to support all Unix versions .
39 The technology required to cope with this would far beyond the capabilities of the microcomputers present in school and the cost of hardware and software needed to run such system would be prohibitive .
40 Almost inevitably , devices and software designed to overcome these attempts at copy-protection soon appeared on the market , to the intense irritation of the software industry .
41 The farmhouse in which the author now lives was thought , locally , to be about 250 years old — its general style and construction seeming to indicate this .
42 And its aeronautically inspired rear wing and shape helps to keep all 175 bhp of turbo-charged power where it belongs , on the tarmac .
43 Australia and New Zealand hold an annual meeting to discuss matters of mutual interest and French decided to broaden these horizons following the changes within South Africa and invite a SARFU delegation to attend a meeting in Sydney together with representatives from the Argentine Rugby Union .
44 This is due to their large size , the complexity and time required to install such a system and the fact that a machine bound system tends to be less flexible to change and re-layout .
45 Behind the wheel was a young Japanese man he had never seen before , but Mum seemed to know all about him .
46 But television tends to block this ability by filling our minds with its own images and reiterating them over and over again .
47 ‘ I daresay her aunt and uncle would let you have it , ’ said Melissa , aware that this might be unlikely but feeling impelled to give some comfort to a fellow human being in so much distress .
48 She 's convinced that her father knows a great deal about her uncle and his businesses , but Dad refuses to discuss any aspect of the matter . ’
49 While research strives to remove this limit , products which dodge the issue are appearing .
50 However , even when research came to recognize this exaggeration and to examine the diversity of local service provision , local politics remained shrouded in mystery .
51 The injunction began a saga that was to run for two months , as Virgin scrabbled to find another bank to take over the role played in the lease agreement by Chemical .
52 Children whose teachers rated their ability as average tended to spend less time on work and routine activities and more time distracted or awaiting attention than either those who were thought to be above average in ability or those who were rated as below average .
53 In a way they were both already dinosaurs by the mid '60s , as legislation began to put more emphasis on efficiency and sophistication than on simplicity and brute force .
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