Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has that made any difference to trade ? |
| 2 | Now a bigger pipe , has that got more resistance or less resistance ? |
| 3 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |
| 4 | Bull looks set to join former boss Barry Fry at Southend , while current Underhill supremo Edwin Stein puts the total value of his squad at £2.16 million . |
| 5 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 6 | It actually looks bigger looking that way than it does when you 're up there looking back , I think . |
| 7 | The cabinet 's current review of the tax now looks likely to heed this advice and go for the quick chop . |
| 8 | Dennis 's desire to retain McLaren 's lucrative Shell contract in the face of Renault 's close links with Elf still looks likely to scupper any deal . |
| 9 | But has Corky got enough material to fill the space ? |
| 10 | An area of great diversity , grandeur and fun , the USA 's West Coast has enough to keep most people enthralled for a lifetime . |
| 11 | Trounson agrees , but says this has several disadvantages : ‘ The best eggs may be left in the ovary or discarded , and egg follicles left in the ovary may develop painful cysts which may disturb pregnancy . |
| 12 | The Soars each have many years ' experience as teachers and teacher trainers in the UK and abroad . |
| 13 | John and Liz Soars each have many years of experience as teachers and teacher-trainers in the UK and abroad . |
| 14 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 15 | reckon it costs much to run these lights underneath here ? |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) rightly said that it costs more to collect that contribution than it yields . |
| 17 | It sounds crazy to think some Jap mother might see a diaper floating down out of the sky lit up by flares and fires and grab it to put on her crying baby . |
| 18 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 19 | ‘ He seems prepared to let this country bleed to death while those on guaranteed incomes just look on . ’ |
| 20 | IT SEEMS appropriate to begin this review of Angela Carter 's last book with an anecdote from which the necessary expletive will be deleted . |
| 21 | Since demonstrative pronouns typically involve a gesture , it seems easy to assimilate such acts of reference to general theories of action ; if one can then show that other kinds of referring expression are related to demonstratives , the case for viewing reference in general as a species of action is made plausible . |
| 22 | In effect the insider who questions the gross systems of classification which define police practice seems set to join those deviants or criminals who contest the system of law and order by breaking its rules and regulations . |
| 23 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 24 | Other factors such as the personal and public importance of the event are equally likely to be of significance and it seems inappropriate to regard such memories as providing evidence for a general enhancement of memory related to increased arousal or emotion . |
| 25 | AT a time when sectarian murder gangs are running rampant , it seems churlish to decline any offer of political assistance from abroad . |
| 26 | She seems unwilling to take any lead in furthering the social unity of Britain : while willing to be photographed next to African dictators at Commonwealth summits , she is less happy about having black or brown people in her Royal Household . |
| 27 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 28 | It seems reasonable to assume that Oswiu certainly brought into subjection to himself the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu ( between the Forth and the Tay ) , for Bridei , the son of Bili , king of Strathclyde , and Ecgfrith 's cousin ( HB ch. 57 ) , who became king of the Picts on the expulsion of Drest and later fought against Ecgfrith , is described specifically in the Irish annals as ‘ king of Fortriu ’ at his death in 692 ( AU s.a . |
| 29 | So far , however , as working underground is concerned , it seems safe to generalise that adult female labour was never widespread and was in decline in the later eighteenth century . |
| 30 | But Mr Kravchuk seems unlikely to choose this course , and Mr Kuchma has said he will bow to the will of his president . |