Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [noun] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extract starts where Gilly has just received a postcard from her mother . |
| 2 | So it hardly matters that Connery lives mostly in Marbella , that his residence for tax purposes , used to be on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and is now an apartment in Monte Carlo , although he still has the place in the Bahamas . |
| 3 | For the USSR much will depend , ultimately , on world oil prices , on world gas prices and on just how much foreign currency the USSR needs if energy exports really do account for 60 to 80 per cent of hard currency earnings . |
| 4 | If you drop the E it looks like policing does n't it ? |
| 5 | He always looks like shit does n't he ? |
| 6 | So er just because it looks like seduction does n't mean it 's not abuse , I suppose that 's what I 'm saying in the in the in a nutshell . |
| 7 | Geoffrey Wheatcroft wonders if murder strikes quite the right note |
| 8 | But , and secondly , what counts as rationality takes on much more subtle hues . |
| 9 | Despite the dangers , BSAC , whose training is among the most rigorous in the world , insists that diving compares favourably with other sports . |
| 10 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 11 | One insider opines that IBM has probably lost a little of it 's smugness . |
| 12 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |
| 13 | Slater , however , who figures MIPS for one of the strongest long-term challenges to Intel 's iAPX-86 dominance in the personal computer market , allows that MIPS has nevertheless created some of its own headaches — like delays in the R4000 RISC stemming from its decision to produce a chip that pleased everybody , yet pleased nobody . |
| 14 | As for the huge variability in the number of contradictory results , Moore says that NCI applies only the most stringent criteria to their decisions : a significant turnout response to a given dose in two species or two sexes . |
| 15 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 16 | Richard Simmonds of laser says that success does n't happen overnight … they 've been in Banbury since the early seventies and have built 150,000 boats … he says it 's about time that people in banbury had the chance to sail on their doorstep and there are lots of local clubs that offer people the chance |
| 17 | Again , like his UK counterpart , Richet says that Montpellier has already found some OEM business and that outsiders account for 10% of his revenue . |
| 18 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 19 | Since vowels are not better nor worse than consonants — indeed Swift explicitly says that language needs both masculine and feminine tendencies — this is a relatively non-misogynist stereotype . |
| 20 | A assumes that B knows where A is ; A and B are not in the same place ; neither A nor B are in Edinburgh ; A thinks B has been to A's place before 5 . |
| 21 | Bruno , it seems , is a winner whatever happens because Lewis has already said that should he win the undisputed title or be awarded the WBC crown , he will instantly defend it against his British rival . |
| 22 | As this temperature rise occurs after ovulation has already taken place , it can not predict ovulation in advance . |
| 23 | The real test is what happens as output picks up . |
| 24 | This happens when water leaches out the salt used to preserve the leather or when leather comes into contact with sea water or salt used to grit the roads . |
| 25 | But there are some bright spots on the horizon–what occurs as June gets underway should have an amazing effect as far as your worldly ambitions , happiness and general well-being are concerned . |
| 26 | Noise then , occurs when language breaks down . |
| 27 | But it still hurts when Gordon sits out the big Euro nights . |
| 28 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 29 | saying to Leanne go over there and she goes and Leanne goes why ? |
| 30 | Losers instantly have their spur leg amputated with a machete , and we were shocked to find that a cock which even for a moment turns and runs has instantly lost . |