Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 2 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 3 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 4 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 5 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 6 | ‘ It has committed itself to this new dental hospital and we are looking to it to deliver . ’ |
| 7 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 8 | Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ? |
| 9 | Essentially the court is concerned whether the decision-making body has addressed itself to all relevant factors . |
| 10 | A common fault into which candidates fall is to assume that the mention of a topic in the question is an indication that the examiner wants to know everything about that and related subjects . |
| 11 | Although we have answered some questions , our work has presented us with many more . |
| 12 | Since then , Dr Richardson has met him on many occasions , and he conveyed the university 's invitation to the Dalai Lama . |
| 13 | The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’ |
| 14 | Nobody has seen him since that day . |
| 15 | He has seen her for all of 30 seconds . |
| 16 | The ‘ Sinatra/Jagger/Jive Bunny 's Back ’ joke has seen us through many a long winter . |
| 17 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 18 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
| 19 | But she has said nothing of that . |
| 20 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 22 | The fact that the UK government has done none of these things , leads one to suppose that a genuine improvement in the co-ordination of health and welfare services for the most vulnerable and disabled groups in society has not been the real objective . |
| 23 | I emphasise that I do not believe that any individual or manager in the health service has done anything in this case which departs from the principles upon which the health service is built . |
| 24 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 25 | It is corrupt ; it has betrayed the ideals you worked for , and it has robbed you of any position . ’ |
| 26 | If danger threatens powerful muscles can snap the valves tightly shut , and once a bivalve has closed itself in this way it can be very difficult to force it open — it has ‘ clammed ’ up . |
| 27 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 28 | Mozart has shown us on many occasions in his scores how delightful a melodic phrase can sound when given to bassoon and flute at two octaves distance . |
| 29 | I in particular , bearing in mind the point that er Mr i is making , that er newts seem to be as it were very choosy in where they er go , bearing in mind the existence of at least three other ponds in Skelton , I would like to know whe how er why it is or whether it is that newts are only found in this pond , and whether or not er the the survey has shown anything in either of er in any of the other ponds . |
| 30 | The main kiosk has had none of these since before Christmas . |