Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of this very detailed , long-term study do therefore make a significant contribution to the policy question of the relevance of different treatment approaches as hospitals are replaced by alternative services . |
| 2 | Dot did still have the garden with her . |
| 3 | The published Programme did still commit the party to communism as an ‘ historic perspective ’ , but this , as the Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov commented , was very much in the spirit of an ‘ epitaph on a tombstone ’ . |
| 4 | And that Parisian modernism did indeed represent a deepening Enlightenment rationality . |
| 5 | Needless to say , half-way across , the scorpion does indeed sting the frog and the pair of them perish . |
| 6 | Nagging doubts do remain , though , that the level of perception does occasionally produce a feeling of calculation . |
| 7 | So it seems virtually certain that the angle of the central part of the waggle dance relative to either gravity or a bright light does indeed provide the crucial information for the new recruits . |
| 8 | The 16 per cent of authorities where Independents are dominant are mostly in the more rural parts of Scotland , England and Wales , but as Widdicombe notes ( 1986 , vol. 1 , p. 23 ) ‘ the overall figure does perhaps represent a stronger resilience of the Independent tradition in an era of increasing party politicisation than might have been anticipated ’ . |
| 9 | If such a small figure does indeed give the national picture in microcosm , then it knocks a few favourite ‘ facts ’ about condensation on the head . |
| 10 | An analysis of the contents of the Review does indeed reveal a continuing concern with the national dimensions of language and literature . |
| 11 | Can darts ever make a decent computer game ? |
| 12 | The proposal did however offer a good measure against which the visits could be set . |
| 13 | ‘ The law did sometimes make an ass of itself , ’ said Sir Nicholas Lyell . |
| 14 | The steering committee did however recommend the appointment of a Prime Minister , and provision for greater freedom of information . |
| 15 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 16 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |
| 17 | For a pilot , it is perhaps one of the most agreeable settings in which to ply his profession — even though fog , gales and ice do sometimes demand the limits of his skills . |
| 18 | Zidovudine does consistently provide a time-limited benefit for up to 12–18 months in such patients . |
| 19 | Local management does however offer an opportunity for more imaginative and exciting possibilities for those schools where a real commitment to the open decision-making ‘ philosophy ’ exists . |
| 20 | Yes , I readily accept that , er my general proposition is in er connection with the settlement pattern of York , and it is necessary clearly to have er careful regard to that existing settlement pattern , erm if I may refer to the helpful plan that has in fact been produced , I believe by the County Council , it is in fact an appendix to B two zero zero four , er this plan does actually indicate the general extent of the settlements outside the outer ring road of York . |
| 21 | But whatever talents she had once had , she had now turned ferociously against them , whereas her husband did still pay a curious self-willed homage to the intellectual virtues ; he possessed an 1895 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which he would , from time to time , read . |
| 22 | The comment had some truth in it , in that the heroine did indeed have an equine cast of feature , but he made it too often , and with too little variation ; however , she was willing to forgive him , in view of his evident tolerance of her own social errors , such as an inability to say whether or not she wanted an ice cream . |
| 23 | The Conservative Group do indeed congratulate the Government for it 's far-sighted legislation to make our schools more accountable to the people they serve . |
| 24 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 25 | However , to quote Pete Wylie — himself quoting The Situationists , readers — this record does indeed have a corpse in its mouth , said cadaver being pub rock . |
| 26 | If punishment does indeed reduce the future incidence of crime , then the pain and unhappiness caused to the offender may be outweighed by the avoidance of unpleasantness to other people in the future — thus making punishment morally right from a utilitarian point of view . |
| 27 | In agreement with this idea several groups have recently shown that this site does indeed represent a functional binding site for octamer binding proteins ( 12–14 ) and we have demonstrated that it can bind both the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and a novel octamer binding protein expressed in cervical cells ( 15 ) . |
| 28 | If it were clear when a party has formed an intention to incur legal obligation , if a person did commonly define the obligation he desired to assume in terms which left little doubt as to its nature , it would be unnecessary , and indeed merely foolish , to require an additional test of that intention . |
| 29 | Drawing upon detailed field studies by W. F. R. Weldon ( 1860–1906 ) , the biometrical school was able to show that selection did indeed have a measurable effect even on the short term . |
| 30 | Charity did guiltily drop the glasses . |