Example sentences of "[vb base] [ex0] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies .
2 Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies .
3 Outlines of hut circles , still visible , suggest there was a permanent Brigante settlement here , supposedly one of the last strongholds against the Romans .
4 It is a sport , at least in my view , although I acknowledge there is a great deal of hard work involved both on the actual occasion and in the preparation .
5 And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about .
6 I read a lot , Joe , and it appears to me that every man , even every thinking man has always had a different view of the same subject ; the more I read of men and their lives and their ideas the more I realise there 's no black and white in the world ; there 's good points to be found even in the blackest , and there 's some very dark streaks in the so-called saints .
7 The couple caring for the baby in their Middlesbrough home realise there is a long way to go .
8 The ladies are in the drawing room , and discussing illnesses — gout and glands — when I realise there is an enormous social gaffe being performed .
9 Although Mark 's expert navigation round the lesser-known hedegrows of Hampshire got us out of the bumper-to-bumper mess , I almost regretted leaving cos I expect there was a huge party somewhere on the middle of the M3 ( ‘ let's all have a disco ’ , etc . )
10 FREE OVEN & HOB Right now with every kitchen we fit there 's a free oven and hob .
11 Others say there is no political will for real land reform , since the leadership 's aim is to keep the previous system intact and in working order , not to break it up .
12 Training Ffestiniog slate men one of these days they say there is no more Ffestiniog slate and that 's it its gone bankrupt and er But I mean that can be easily arranged sort of thing .
13 The staff say there is no formal structure for negotiating pay .
14 They say there is no white man that can be trusted .
15 Several operations have been cancelled at the John Radcliffe Hospital today … and more may be stopped tomorrow as staff struggle to cope with a sudden influx of emergency patients … officials say there is no single cause for the sudden rise in admissions …
16 Secondly , they say there is no scientific evidence that whales are near extinction .
17 When in football someone takes aim at the goal we say there is a sudden heightening of tension ; when it is all over after a noble save by the goalie there is an equally sudden slackening of tension .
18 Fire chiefs say there is an increased risk to the public .
19 I say there are no great , there is no beautiful , there is only the thin filth of getting old , the thin layer of filth that gets to cover everything .
20 ‘ We 've had our lab take a look at this , ’ he said in his sing-song way , ‘ but they say there are no distinctive tool marks .
21 Police say there are no suspicious circumstances .
22 Police say there are no suspicious circumstances and a coroner has been informed .
23 Police say there are no suspicious circumstances .
24 So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along .
25 Its disciples talk of new values , its detractors say there 's no such thing as new when you 're a hardened pro — just good and bad , successful and unsuccessful .
26 Police say there 's no apparent motive for the attack .
27 Experts say there 's no scientific evidence the drug helps build muscle .
28 They say there 's a small garden there and a ten-foot high crucifix , they say that last Lent Sister Martha spent five hours in front of it every day .
29 Robert came forward and listened intently as the owners — a middle-aged man with an anxious-looking wife — asked nervously , ‘ You say there 's a certain amount of risk .
30 Specialists say there 's a growing need for more Rivermeads , and more understanding about head injuries .
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