Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Larry adds that his optimum rig would be two 4x10s , and listening to the tens perform under an extreme load does tend to qualify his argument . |
| 2 | It seems to err in moving the death of Archbishop Lyfing to 1019 ( C and E together speak strongly for 1020 ) , but D adds that his other name was Ælfstan and that he was very firm in counsel whether in matters of church or state . |
| 3 | He feels that art directors often have such set views about the subjects he photographs that his own creativity is suppressed . |
| 4 | In the book Marje writes that her 53-year marriage to husband Sidney had been devoid of sex . |
| 5 | Taskopruzade writes that his own father was licensed in by Hocazade , Hocazade by Fahreddin Acemi , Fahreddin Acemi by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi and Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi by Sa 'd al-Din al-Taftazani : as Taskopruzade was himself licensed by his father , this list provides an academic genealogy for him as well . |
| 6 | He accepts that his contrary nature sometimes irritated the other members but feels his sacking contained an element of Gedge wanting to remove a strong influence from the group , an influence often opposed to his own . |
| 7 | He foresaw ‘ the many hardships , miseries and wants that my poor family was like to meet with … should I be taken from them , especially my poor blind child … . |
| 8 | A survey of British local governments by Blore ( 1987 ) concludes that our local bureaucrats , too , are staff maximizers . |
| 9 | One wonders if our worthy Bishop Russel were to see the sporting activities taking place today especially in the Holy weeks and time spent in the worship of television what punishments he would hand out . |
| 10 | And I think we did draw attention to the fact that er there may well in some instances be a conflict in terms of what Selby district wants and what current P P G advice suggests . |
| 11 | And that matters because our existing capacity can not maintain our national living standards and our balance of payments . |
| 12 | The true place of inflation in calculating the cost of credit is as part of a triangle which has as its other sides the interest to be gained from instalment savings and the interest to be paid for instalment credit — both of which are broadly related to inflation rates anyway . |
| 13 | For this reason he proposed a ‘ research model ’ that has as its central theme the notion that it is not sufficient that the work of teachers should be studied ( either in terms of outcomes or processes ) , but that they should study it themselves . |
| 14 | Archaeology has as its declared intention the reconstruction of past societies and the understanding of processes of long term social change . |
| 15 | Serialism has as its prime objective an organized way of composing with all the twelve notes contained within the octave . |
| 16 | The biochemical evolution of the Earth , including the creation of the reptiles , dinosaurs and the mammals , has as its sole purpose the ultimate evolution of intelligent beings capable of under-standing the laws of physics , and thus able to speculate about the origin and density of the universe . |
| 17 | Mailer 's novel has as its running theme the notion of ‘ Alpha ’ and ‘ Omega ’ — two states of mind coexisting in the same person . |
| 18 | An impressive group of Italian Mannerist drawings has as its focal point this previously unknown study of a man 's head , one of only three studies for the ‘ Joseph in Egypt ’ in the National Gallery , London a rare discovery by any standards . |
| 19 | The special , complex mood communicated to the reader through this kind of romantic adventure has as its literary results a particular intensity of emotion fostered by a constant shift of pace , tension and suspense . |
| 20 | Rather , it evolved in fits and starts as its various components were deployed in a variety of areas producing what quickly became classic studies and the base line for a growing corpus of social research findings . |
| 21 | The county council thinks that its proposed provision is the right approach and it 's a balanced approach in line erm with Secretary of State 's previously e stated wishes . |
| 22 | Akio Morita records that his fledgling company Sony was , in 1953 , able to buy a licence from Western Electric to develop transistor technology . |
| 23 | This guarantees that his own offspring have sufficient space and food in which to grow . |
| 24 | So , point six erm okay look at the sentences one and two under six , one is apparently ill-formed , herself left , except in I think some Irish dialects actually yes , well it has a rather special meaning where herself is given special status erm in the context , but in normal English , English herself left is ill-formed , but two , Florence saw herself is fine herself is a reflective pronoun refers that herself each other or one another , the other are reflective pronouns . |
| 25 | Sue insists that her new show will prove successful . |
| 26 | For the moment , therefore , the government insists that its state-owned energy firm , Petrobras , must hold a controlling interest . |
| 27 | While China insists that its open-door policy remains intact and continues to encourage investment from the West , it has revived a vocabulary of ideological struggle almost identical to that used in East Germany . |
| 28 | But he also insists that his main task was to deliver the prisoner to the torturers , who were specialists in interrogation with long experience in the service . |
| 29 | John Papworth , for example , remarks that their genuine adornments are neatness and cleanliness , for these suggest industry and cheerfulness , whereas ‘ the broken casement , the patched wall , the sunken roof , the hatch unhinged , the withered shrub , are corresponding testimonies of the husbandman 's relaxed energies and broken spirit ’ . |
| 30 | Sun Microsystems Inc has confirmed formation of the wholly-owned personal communicator unit FirstPerson Inc ( CI No 2,118 ) and says that its key focus will be on developing software that enables different types of digital devices to swap data and work together — it has in mind televisions , radios , satellites and computers — and to license the software and technology to other companies for use in their electronics products , putting it in direct competition with General Magic Inc , while mirroring some of the concepts of the Echelon Corp Local Operating Network ; boss of the new company Wayne Rosen said that FirstPerson has not ruled out collaborating with General Magic . |