Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But look at the contrast on p81 , after Eddie has messed things up and made Catherine miserable — she says that he is a rat . |
| 2 | The better choice here is a crescent-pattern spanner which has angled jaws so that it can be reversed in tight corners . |
| 3 | Genoa , Italy : International has supplied paints above and below the waterline for the hi-tech yacht Jules Verne in which Frenchman aims to beat the fictional record established in Verne 's classic novel Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 4 | in the case of a settlement made under a testamentary disposition of the settlor or on his intestacy , the time of his death ; and 2. in the case of any other settlement , the time or , where there is more than one each of the times , when he has provided funds directly or indirectly for the purposes of the settlement . |
| 5 | Three points from the last four available after five straight defeats is the reward for the manager 's faith and the sudden realisation that the First Division beckoned has focused minds magnificently as Jefferies acknowledged when he said : ‘ There is still a lot to be done but if the players show the same attitude for the rest of the season we wo n't go down . |
| 6 | A NEW study of insulin-dependent diabetes in identical twins has brought doctors closer than ever to being able to predict its development in people thought to be at risk . |
| 7 | Applying our test has generated complications rather than answers . |
| 8 | Recession abroad has hit exports hard and though business at home has been improving slowly since the start of the year , confidence remains weak . |
| 9 | Presumably , Hongkong is not a buyer because it wants to offer shares rather than cash . |
| 10 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 11 | It was feared he would not be ready for any contest until Christmas , but intensive treatment at Lilleshall has paid dividends sooner than anticipated . |
| 12 | This is what the strategists in the Strategy Unit would call a Debatable Land — a territory on the frontier between different empires which has changed hands back and forth over the years . |
| 13 | This also models sound reflections off or through the other objects in the virtual world . |
| 14 | A fear of intimacy tends to affect men more than women . |
| 15 | The social scientist tends to study events so as to draw conclusions of a more general and rather static kind . |
| 16 | However , the number of organizations this produces is unmanageable , and it also tends to emphasize differences rather than similarities . |
| 17 | However , excitement can quickly turn to anxiety when the time it takes to conceive takes longer than originally expected . |
| 18 | Try not to give one-word answers even if the interviewer is inexperienced and keeps phrasing questions so that the most obvious way to answer is ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ . |
| 19 | Cos Charlie , you know , keeps digging rabbits up and he 's knackered his claw ! |
| 20 | It involves recasting sentences so that they clearly do not exclude either women or men . |
| 21 | erm as regards correlating things together and bunging them into the same factor analysis model and stuff like that er even if the questions are a bit different I think you can still do that legitimately because it 's still sort of expressing the strength of opinion on some sort of scale erm so I do n't see that that 'll er interfere with the ambitions you 've got as regards the data erm so er |
| 22 | It guarantees to deliver parts overnight or the customer gets the parts free . |
| 23 | It guarantees to deliver parts overnight or the customer gets the part FREE . |
| 24 | He says one problem is that the new scheme for support from the DOT involves putting packages together that must cost at least £2 million and it 's quite hard to find a package of cycle-ways that actually cost that much ! |
| 25 | ‘ That means opening doors so that people are not denied the best education and the best health care ; it means that we must have equal opportunity , greater fairness . ’ |
| 26 | The gyro has made it much easier to learn to fly but , once you overcome the basic hurdle , it merely serves to smooth things out and make your flying tidier . |
| 27 | If this is not done and a future purchaser of the business wishes to buy assets rather than Target 's shares , it will be necessary to distribute the proceeds of disposal of those assets to Newco with an onward distribution to management . |
| 28 | The perfectionist , as we saw , tries to do things perfectly because of his or her compulsive desire to avoid showing anger . |
| 29 | All towns , if one wishes to understand landscapes rather than to gain inner pleasure from beauty , have much to offer , despite Professor Hoskins ' strictures . |
| 30 | Likes to set things out and make them go you know |