Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in fact , if you look through bibliographies and citations in the literature , you find it 's hardly ever cited , and when it is cited , people seldom if ever , seemed to refer to what Freud er says in it , let alone take any notice of it . |
| 2 | Those let off include old power stations and new plant which would be ‘ unreasonably expensive ’ to clean up . |
| 3 | I du n no last week were n't it ? |
| 4 | Er rounders which is er similar to er I du n no American baseball in , in a fashion is n't it ? |
| 5 | oh yeah , he also used to have this , this bell , I du n no some weirdo just |
| 6 | Du n no some go off that way |
| 7 | But not everyone does consent , nor do all have this attitude . |
| 8 | However , the accounts do only compare actual expenditure against grant for both categories . |
| 9 | Screening tests which identify the presence of mental handicap in the unborn child do not prevent mental handicap , because the handicap is already present . |
| 10 | Many of my informants felt that the use of 'JC' features is stereotyped and that these British adolescents do not speak 'real Jamaican . ' |
| 11 | For example , in the San Carlos district , of the children who begin first grade , 95 per cent do not finish secondary school . |
| 12 | The police do not create social deprivation , though unimaginative , inflexible policing can make the tensions which deprivation engenders greatly worse . |
| 13 | These dark red molecules do not absorb far-red light , however , and the piranha 's far-red shifted vision allows its eyes to pierce the gloom . |
| 14 | There is evidence that at times of stress many patients do not absorb verbal information and that a better quality of informed consent can be obtained by combining oral and written information as we did . |
| 15 | Do not wear excessive jewellery , especially if it is the sort which jangles . |
| 16 | DO NOT START ANY WORK UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS APPROVAL . |
| 17 | ’ Do not start any work until you have received written approval . ’ |
| 18 | The Secretariat has stated that individual countries are free to set their own environmental standards , as long as they do not impede free trade . |
| 19 | It must be remembered , however , that these xenoliths and veins do not represent frozen melt compositions , but rather the respective cumulate and infiltrate products of fractionally crystallized melts and/or associated fluids in an open system , so chemical resemblance may be fortuitous . |
| 20 | The proportion of the bottom two-thirds of pupils who get the following item correct is considerably reduced compared with the number who correctly answer " How many halves are there in 2½ ? " ( see p.33 ) Reading a scale with divisions which do not represent one unit again proves difficult as the next item illustrates : The next question which fewer than 50 per cent of the middle third could answer was the last in this group of three items . |
| 21 | They do not represent additional demand for resources , they are merely transfers of purchasing power from the taxpayer to other sectors of the community . |
| 22 | As a number of commentators have noted , ‘ Black ’ and ‘ white ’ do not represent fixed group identities which stand in contrast to each other . |
| 23 | It would be foolish for politicians to accept interest group claims or activity at face value , since the signals from organized groups do not represent any kind of reliable picture of underlying citizen views . |
| 24 | It is even possible ( and I suspect that many ‘ relapses ’ fall into t his category ) that the pus cells do not represent active infection and are a residual sign of past or resolving infection . |
| 25 | Do not neglect any part of the plant being pressed , because you can usually find some use for it . |
| 26 | However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable . |
| 27 | I ought to add , perhaps , that gay men do not regard this film with nothing but sad , solemn recognition — the characteristically gay male urge to mock and undercut what one genuinely and deeply feels , what Dyer brilliantly calls ‘ the knife edge between camp and hurt ’ , can be evidenced by pointing out that one of London 's most crowded and cruisy gay bars is called ‘ Brief Encounter ’ , though one is , alas , unlikely to meet anyone resembling Trevor Howard therein . |
| 28 | The federal Government do not exercise proper control . |
| 29 | Constructivists do not admit such scepticism : the existence of an external world is one of the factors which make cognisance possible . |
| 30 | I replied to Ms Chevannes through the same newspaper thus : ‘ Generally , black kids do not demonstrate interest in school work and do not sink much enthusiasm into their efforts . |