Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 2 | To say that church schools hinder the ecumenical movement is a nonsense . |
| 3 | In the past levels around Stow on the Wold have climbed above that — now Thames Water belive the new supply is one of the cleanest in the world . |
| 4 | Selection for senior posts is therefore more important than training ; if people who display the appropriate qualities are placed in the correct context then they will flourish . |
| 5 | I stress the Irish squad is probable |
| 6 | Course officials fear the seized batch is n't the end of the story . |
| 7 | Even many voters who dislike and fear the Labour Party are tempted to register their disgust at the Tories ' failures by voting Liberal Democrat . |
| 8 | The second half brought Tchaikovsky 's 4th symphony , where I fear the fourth movement was a little too fast , certainly on its opening , although a conductor can well afford to accelerate the pace towards the conclusion . |
| 9 | The local authority contend the correct date is when the demand for payment was served or when it became operative . |
| 10 | The metopes which beautify the Greek frieze are frequently replaced in Roman work by bulls ' skulls or garlands . |
| 11 | On a wire launch the best hope is for the car or winch driver to build up extra speed to get the glider as high as possible . |
| 12 | Greater participation by women in paid work and changes in family structure thus seem to be closely related , although what the mechanisms are that connect the two changes is less clear . |
| 13 | The muscles that connect the two bones are clearly under a colossal amount of tension and this is pulling these two bones together . |
| 14 | But to speak of parallel processes co-existing in the social and aesthetic spheres is not a very satisfying explanation because the causal mechanisms which connect the two spheres are not properly elaborated . |
| 15 | The old axiom that hungry fighters make the best ones is countered by the quote from young , struggling players : " Eat beans , and play like beans … " |
| 16 | They do n't like to do it what even in under those , I mean the other tooth 's nearly the same size , this is what happened with that tooth of mine there , I was |
| 17 | Yes , I mean the other thing is if we are absolutely honest , which we should n't be with a microphone in front of us but , if we 're absolutely honest , you know this , this is a bit of work that we 're trying to make simple |
| 18 | But I mean the first step is always the hardest . |
| 19 | Why what a er what about doing taking it out of er I mean the only way is taking out |
| 20 | I mean the only trouble is they 're no use afterwards are they ? |
| 21 | and then I could have shown mine to this lady , cos I mean the only difference is is the black and white is n't it ? |
| 22 | Now if you get a situation like that I mean the key question is do people actually want to change in this kind of way , or would they at least like to sort of experiment a little bit in the way they handle a group of children ? |
| 23 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 24 | But I mean the best thing is the tin it come in . |
| 25 | I can remember one , one girl , I mean the great sin was to steal anything , and er they 'd found in her , her satchel somebody else 's pencil . |
| 26 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 27 | So what I think , that 's another thing about this , I have erm , there 's something about the plainness of design that I like if it 's erm the things that have been done that are erm like Adobe typefaces or Bertol typefaces , that are really beautifully , you know , sandpapered and finished to me are boring and when you get into , if you take a look at the schedule that A T F produce typefaces in it 's not unlike it , I mean the modern equivalent is the Font Bureau do 'em and try to sell 'em . |
| 28 | I mean the front room 's a a long , you ca n't put your furniture how you really want it you see cos you 've got a bit sticking out there and then you 've got this big sticking out here . |
| 29 | Er so I suspect it 's not worked out quite as we intended er and it I mean the main problem is that it 's it 's it 's cost us time , cost me time which I would rather have spent on something else but there we are . |
| 30 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |