Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun] [vb -s] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bites usually begin with a slight tremble , or lift of half an inch or so , and then a steady but determined rise that continues until you strike or the fish lets go of the bait . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , Brabin , J. then introduced an element of uncertainty by continuing to say , ‘ If I am wrong and the defence does apply then I have to decide , have the defendants proved ( the burden being on them ) that the best practicable means has been taken ? ’ |
| 3 | Must be pleased , as was Ken Vasey we spoke to earlier , that you did n't concede a goal for the second game in succession , and the defence does look a lot tighter does n't it ? |
| 4 | The mess does wash off , and the smell does go … in time . |
| 5 | Index-linked gilts are complex investments to assess and the investor does obtain professional management by buying via a specialist fund . |
| 6 | It is also quite soft on the bottom , and the newsprint does come off far too easily . |
| 7 | Approach , ye sons of Wisdom , and rejoice : let us now rejoice together ; for the reign of death is finished and the son doth rule ; he is invested in the scarlet garment , and the purple is put on . |
| 8 | She spoke tearfully of das Baby ; and the baby does sound fairly disastrous . |
| 9 | And the transcript does record what then happened . |
| 10 | ‘ Where a man , having the animus furandi ( see ante , para. 1469 ) , obtains possession of goods by frightening the owner , as by threatening him with temporary imprisonment unless he delivers up his goods , and the owner does deliver them under the influence of the fear inspired by his threat , this is considered such a taking ( although there is a delivery in fact ) as to constitute larceny : Reg. v. Lovell ( 1881 ) 8 Q.B.D. 185 . |
| 11 | The consistency of both ratings between actual driving and the laboratory does suggest that subjects performed these tasks in the same way in both cases . |
| 12 | Cricket in Sri Lanka is indeed a tough job with the high humidity as big a factor as the near 100 degree temperatures and the weather does add extra pressure on England 's players at the end of a long and arduous tour as they try to regain a little bit of their lost pride . |
| 13 | He was n't the imaginative kind , and a man does know how he puts down his own tools . |
| 14 | All work and no play makes jack a dull boy . |
| 15 | But the range does tend to be very crowded . |
| 16 | But the 49-year-old does want a place on the board so he can invest a reported £8million . |
| 17 | But the legislation does make it clear that they will be operating in a Church which has declared that it is right to ordain women to the Priesthood and does so ordain them . |
| 18 | For the most part this is true , but the Crown does have the direct and personal power to refuse to dissolve Parliament before the expiry of its full term and does have the power to invite a person to form a government . |
| 19 | But the shabbiness does indicate one other quality that is obligatory ; the private-eye must be a man of integrity . |
| 20 | But the hotel does have the advantage of being able to offer a scenic and historic location and the more personalised level of service that a small independent hotel can offer . |
| 21 | In addition , member states are allowed to exempt from the notification requirement what are termed ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ if they do not use the securities acquired to interfere in the company 's management ; the expression ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ may be confined to market makers ( as under the 1985 Companies Act ) but the expression does seem wide enough to include own account dealers as well and this is supported by the fact that the exemption applies even to professional dealers who are not members of a stock exchange , provided that they are authorised or supervised by a competent authority ( an investment bank , for example ) . |
| 22 | But the row does seem more damaging to the Socialists than the devaluation . |
| 23 | No one is saying that Cairo does not need the repairs , but the disparity does show the imbalance that arises when aid goes to urban , high-technology programmes . |
| 24 | To define away every social class difference on the grounds that the social class division itself is erroneous would clearly be a pointless procedure , but the researcher does have an obligation to note those cases where it seems to her/him that faults in this classification ‘ explain ’ the pattern in the data most closely . |
| 25 | In contrast , a state investment bank under the guidance of a planning apparatus could make funds available for socially useful investment projects , and where these projects were demonstrably in the interests of working people , yet were not profitable enough to attract capitalist enterprises , the state could either adjust the parameters of the market to make them profitable ( not always easy , but the state does have considerable means at its disposal to effect such adjustments ) or failing that , nationalise the enterprises concerned , on relatively strong ideological ground . |
| 26 | But the law does contain such offences , and it is more a matter of prosecutors making little use of them . |
| 27 | But the teaching does treat adultery and divorce with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 28 | But the organisation does have fairly complex cross-company consolidation requirements . |
| 29 | But the procedure does introduce novel hazards . |
| 30 | Shares would normally be redeemed out of distributable profits , but the Act does allow for redemption out of a fresh issue of shares , and private companies can redeem out of capital ( ss 171 – 172 Companies Act 1985 ) . |