Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band plays for quite a bit . |
| 2 | This greed for status reinforces the wife 's role as child-bearing domestic slave or chattel , and spoils for ever the chance of a real relationship . |
| 3 | The baby sleeps for about an hour from 11 till 12 — I 'm afraid I read a book then — I do n't do very much housework ! |
| 4 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's very thick with the new master , Humphrey Morris , which counts for quite a lot , ’ Bridget said thoughtfully . |
| 6 | Looks like just a test strip . |
| 7 | The savage , debased , and bestial presences which attack virtue , may undermine its integrity because the potential to degenerate into villainy lies within even a nobleman . |
| 8 | To answer this lies in both the yarn and the individual pattern . |
| 9 | For example in an advertising agency discussion about a new campaign to revive a soft drink one person might be trying to solve the problem of how an old drink can be called " new " in any sense ; another person might be trying to solve the problem of how " old " can be made appealing ; arid a third person might be trying to solve the problem of designing a theme that will sell not to the public but to the marketing manager who has to okay the campaign . |
| 10 | Imports of consumer goods they claim , are held back because marketing costs are prohibitive in a country which has over twice the number of retail stores per head of the population than in the US or West Germany . |
| 11 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 12 | The Tempa Rossa field lies across both the Laurenzana and Torrente Sauro permits — LASMO is operator of Torrente Sauro and has a 20 per cent interest in Laurenzana . |
| 13 | The Combsburgh High School stages a Christmas pantomime in which every young Jack and Jill ( or Wayne and Tracy as they are all called today ) has at least a walk-on part . |
| 14 | VMS also offers the best clustering facilities and host functionality , and has at least a measure of openness with the addition of VMS Posix compliance . |
| 15 | Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness . |
| 16 | Such a suggestion has at least the face validity of being consistent with the research done by Labov and others on language variation ( see Hudson 1980 : Chapter 5 for a review ) . |
| 17 | She has at least an hour a day on it . |
| 18 | Nothing happens for quite a while , then the rod-tip trembles , so I hold the rod in one hand and the line in the other . |
| 19 | The agency must first of all set up an inventory of the assets under its control and it disposes of either the management or of the ownership of the assets vested in it . |
| 20 | It happens with only a handful of Members in their places and achieves little , if any , coverage by the media . |
| 21 | There is an activity which will take a great deal of your time as a student , which is of crucial importance to your success and which passes with hardly a mention on many courses — we refer , of course , to note-taking . |
| 22 | Pre-exposure to a novel flavour normally results in both a reduction of neophobia and in a reduction of the ability of that flavour to serve as a CS in flavour-aversion conditioning . |
| 23 | Cunliffe criticises the new legislation on the ground that a man could be liable under Category 2 where he engaged in consensual sexual intercourse if this results in either the rupture of a woman 's hymen , the transmission of a sexual disease or her pregnancy . |
| 24 | The optimum speed for a launch depends on both the type of glider and the wind strength . |
| 25 | The amount of space necessary depends on both the decor and furnishings , and the strength of colour and pattern in the rug . |
| 26 | Capitalism depends on both the reality and the illusion of choice , but people are not fools and the global capitalist system offers many genuine choices . |
| 27 | This space , intended both to obtain the invention of new products , leading to enhanced consumption and profit , and to maintain ideological support , in response to apparent liberalism , allows at least the possibility that permitted pluralism can grow into radical dissent . |
| 28 | Yes , there are theories at to what happens at well the temperature 's in fact just about as low as you can get . |
| 29 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 30 | In particular , Germany can be expected to become more outspoken in its demands that Britain surrenders at least a part of its ‘ budget rebate ’ , finally clinched by Mrs Thatcher in 1988 . |