Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [det] [coord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I cut all but the strongest , straightest stem away close to the base and planted the resulting ‘ twig ’ in a pot of good compost .
2 We 've heard , so eloquently said by many of my comrades tonight , about the problems right across the sectors affecting and I congratulate each and every one on their contribution tonight .
3 yeah , er , well I follow that but the argument would go , er the article
4 I went back to the Knitmaster with a 302 , then a 321 and through the gamut until I had one of the first Electronic 500 models ; still with that , I bought a push button Brother for the lace , then the 840 , and 910 and finally the 950i — now I have that and the Passap Duomatic 80 .
5 I have that and the privilege of her laughter all my life .
6 Yeah I realize that but the thing is if we 'd had a phone call to say look , we 're going to be this late ,
7 So we use cardboard boxes and even if you 're moving crockery , you put half or a third of what you 'd put in a tea chest goes into er a a a cardboard box .
8 so you add that and the outstanding mortgage
9 The silly thing is there is no divide on here and the only thing I can suggest really , there is a divide symbol in the computer that we can drag out but to drag it out every time it 's too boring really so I 'll think we use this I do n't like using this , but you see this symbol here , that 's what they really use for divide , so if you do that and a couple spaces , people will learn that that means divide , it 's all we can do really
10 I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down .
11 Cutaways are a great help when you are trying to build a sequence of events over which you have little or no control .
12 However , if some setting that you have little or no first-hand experience of does happen to be what has made your imagination bubble and race , you need not cross it off altogether .
13 A hard disk is required with about two Mb free space , if you have that and an EGA monitor together with a love of gardening , then you should have this program also .
14 It is always tempting to sample the more ‘ interesting ’ sections of a sedimentary sequence and to find , on return to the laboratory , that you have few or no samples of the more mundane lithologies which comprise the greater portion of the sequence .
15 Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way .
16 Apart from Perrot , whose Giselle has survived , we have little or no idea what these choreographers were like .
17 At this point , where we have little or no capacity left to discriminate , we become almost unable to feel anything , whether good or bad .
18 However , most of the time we have little or no idea what action results from articles in the Journal , or whether members would prefer other ways of getting involved .
19 Much of Vicki Hearne 's otherwise sensitive attempt to depict the complexity of canine discrimination , of which we have little or no inkling , is undermined by this mistake .
20 Some problem-solving will take the form of a deliberative weighing of consequences , although quite often we choose the least likely-looking solution or toss a coin , but equally frequently we have little or no time for debate .
21 ‘ Change for change 's sake ’ is not our policy and as un-paid voluntary workers — going more or less flat out — we have little or no time to spare for non-essentials !
22 We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals .
23 They eat all but the smallest prey by tearing the carcases apart before ingestion , holding the body of the prey in their talons and tearing small parts away with their hooked beaks .
24 THE BRITISH wives of American servicemen stationed in the United Kingdom must pay the poll tax even though they receive little or no benefit from public services , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday .
25 The VAX 7000 600 systems come with a 91MHz CPU and DEC claims that they outstrip all but the most expensive IBM Corp mainframes .
26 They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately .
27 They gather little or no data of their own , but instead tend toward ad hominem charges against the scholarly consensus .
28 They do little or no teaching , so they are always available .
29 Their minds are so preoccupied with feeding they ignore all but a monumental catastrophe .
30 Overgrowth cements on feldspars and carbonate echinoderm fragments are similar to quartz overgrowth cements in that they contain few or no inclusions or are commonly in optical continuity with the parent grain ( Fig. 5.27a , b ) .
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