Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb infin] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 2 | If there is a thick layer of sediment on the bottom , start using a product like A.B.A. to help remove this sludge — but you will have to increase the aeration of the water while you use it as it can cause a heavy demand on the dissolved oxygen to remove the sludge . |
| 3 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 4 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 5 | Her poetry indicates that Leapor did have some friends before meeting Freemantle ; Octavia , for example , respected her enough to listen to her advice , even if she probably did not accept it . |
| 6 | The view for which Katib Celebi 's list forms the basis thus differs , broadly , in two important respects from the traditional account based on Mustakimzade : first , on the question of the origins of the office , by naming Hizir Bey , in Istanbul , as the first Mufti and by implication denying the Muftiliks of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi ( though d'Ohsson does make some attempt , if an inaccurate and and unpersuasive one , to take account of the tradition of an earlier Muftilik ) ; and second , on the question of how and when Molla Husrev became Mufti , this question involving also the circumstances of the Muftiliks of Abdulkerim and Molla Arab . |
| 7 | But despite the fact that he has been ‘ steadily critical ’ of successive governments ' housing policies , Prof Greve does see some hope for the future — and even for some of the tower blocks . |
| 8 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 9 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 10 | Jackson did promise some attention to the matter but it seems that nothing was granted . |
| 11 | The Greater London and South East Movement and Dance liaison group are taking over the Seymour Halls on 19–20th October to help celebrate this event . |
| 12 | But Huxley did envisage that selection acted on genes that had more than one effect on the form ( morphology ) of an animal , so that although the large body size would be adaptive , the extra large antlers were simply a consequence of prolonged growth . |
| 13 | Chisholm does make that move , and provides no new reason for believing in infallibility . |
| 14 | Joe does earn some money on the after-dinner speaking circuit , and has addressed an assortment of lawyers , writers and bankers since his release . |
| 15 | ‘ So Ryan did have some uses . ’ |
| 16 | Although Hildyard and Olson do cite this literature in their article , they do not confront the arguments it raises but simply respond to them with ‘ alarm ’ . |
| 17 | It is clear that Dworkin does make this assumption . |
| 18 | If Petrey does hold this view , then it is an extremely significant claim which should have been made explicitly , especially since many speech act semanticists have based their semantic analyses on a link between linguistic forms and illocutionary forces . |
| 19 | Bull does have another transaction processing product , BOS/tp , which is Bull 's Unix implementation of Tuxedo — this has nothing to do with CICS ; it enables existing Bull and RS/6000 customers to run Unix applications with Oracle and so on . |
| 20 | We have heard various explanations of who these people might be and Lord does take some comfort erm from Amendment number twenty-seven in the Bill , but looking at that Amendment , I 'm afraid My Lords it does n't really take us very far . |
| 21 | But traditionally such people would have done , er and perhaps in earlier times you know , er maybe Mrs Thatcher does say some prayers , I do n't know , but maybe prayers would be said . |
| 22 | On subsequent visits to Spain Minton did reveal enough knowledge of Spanish to engage locals in conversations in bars , but in 1949 the only Spanish Bernard heard him say was ‘ No , melón ! ’ to a waiter . |
| 23 | The excesses of Vathek do have some emulators — in Matthew Lewis 's The Monk ( 1796 ) , and even in the Victorian novels of Sheridan Le Fanu — but it is the polite feeling of Otranto that flourishes in the hugely popular Gothic novels of the Regency . |
| 24 | Will did write another play , of course . |
| 25 | ‘ As it happens the Zantac did contain some ranitidine [ the active substance ] but other counterfeits have been completely inert , ’ Mr Peter Lumley , association spokesman , said yesterday . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the USA did make some efforts to modify the brutal conduct of the Iraqi armed forces during their campaign against the rebels . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the NVC does record this community in the Outer Hebrides ( South Uist to north Lewis ) . |
| 28 | This suggests that Elizabeth does have some freedom to shape her life , although society will always place limitations on that freedom . |
| 29 | Milton let pass that slur on his country . |
| 30 | And indeed the reflections on art by modernists such as Flaubert , Klee , and Auguste Macke did hold that literature and painting should be like music in a quest for the attainment of formal qualities and in a departure from realist notions of representation . |