Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Spokespeople or representatives had constantly to justify their activities and statements to committees , which in turn would have to report back to steering groups and working parties elected by conferences and regional groups .
2 During the period of their operations on le Fleming ground , i.e. from 1758 to 1795 , those figures which have come to light suggest a total tonnnage of about 1,454 , but this would really be stuff dressed and ready for smelting — concentrate or hand picked best .
3 Hodder & Stanchion carries on under the Attender brothers , Michel and Phalli .
4 However , official statistics suggest that mobility has not recently been conspicuously higher in Japan than in other industrialized countries , especially since access to good education has too often depended on wealth and background .
5 But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio .
6 Interviews conducted by Toner several centuries later suggest that attitudes have not altogether changed .
7 Some studies suggest that hypnosis does not help people remember faces , car number plates or the like .
8 Our data would support this hypothesis but also suggest that bile does not act as a simple genotoxic carcinogen for , although the intragastric bile concentrations found after truncal vagotomy were higher than those found after highly selective vagotomy ( Fig 3 ) , there was no correlation between bile concentrations and DNA adduct levels ( Fig 4 ) .
9 But the report also says , ‘ Doctors are not prohibitionists ’ , and points out that ‘ … findings suggest that abstainers do not necessarily enjoy better health than moderate drinkers ’ .
10 Recent survey results suggest that cohabitees have more liberal views towards marriage and divorce than marrieds .
11 I suggest that Shakespeare reacted critically against the whole European tradition of the sonnet as a form of impotent adoration or frustrated lament by striking out , like Donne , towards fulfilment .
12 It is difficult to summarise them , but , broadly , both they and the Cumberbatch survey confirm the public support for televising , suggest that interest waned slightly as novelty wore off , indicate that on some matters there is growing understanding of Parliament , but make plain that many people still have a lot to learn about MPs and their work and roles .
13 We therefore propose that magma migrated passively into a pre-existing subsurface fracture some time between June 1990 and June 1991 .
14 Other teachers report that children do n't know how to play .
15 The members of the ABI therefore expect that issues involving more than 10 per cent of issued equity share capital , or a discount greater than 5 per cent , will be placed on a basis which leaves existing shareholders with a right to claw back their pro rata share of the issue if they so wish .
16 Spend more than five minutes in their company and you realise that success has n't affected them .
17 It is , however , vital that mothers realise that scans do not only detect abnormalities , they also detect multiple births , and have been one of the main factors in increasing the survival rate of twins and triplets over the last few years .
18 Upon reflection we realise that teachers do not paint on canvases ; their work is not done in isolation .
19 He added : ‘ It happens more often than people realise that children do not want to live with their parents .
20 Customs sources say that raves held just over the border are attracting hundreds of teenagers from all over Ulster — and drug dealers .
21 When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her .
22 Prolific say that intermediaries do not like the more usual two-to five-year period for fixed rate loans , as these lock borrowers out when interest rates fall .
23 Chemists , grocers , clothing , footwear and leather shops say that sales improved significantly compared with a year ago .
24 Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house .
25 They say that God intervenes directly in a supernatural sense in what goes on in the world .
26 Researchers — and cynics — say that research does n't give answers but only throws up more questions .
27 Or she could , if she thought of it in time , say that Derek had always been the most frightful liar .
28 They say that machinery works better when in use .
29 Anyway , Colonel Blair , I 'm going to trust you — never say that banks have n't got a social conscience towards the whole community !
30 Yet old farmers say that Frederick does still live , and that he occasionally appears disguised as a pilgrim .
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