Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precedent has been laid down that cause for separation lies where a spouse resorts to " unnatural practices " with a third party and , perhaps , where a spouse submits to " indecent liberties " by a person of the opposite or the same sex ( Mogg v. |
| 2 | The JMP-1 is an attractive 1U package , with what looks like a gold anodised front panel into which has been set a window for all the data controls . |
| 3 | The best view of the vale is from the hills surrounding it ; it looks like a map spread out . |
| 4 | that 's a letter for looks like a card smells nice |
| 5 | It looks like a picture does n't it sometimes ? |
| 6 | There is one it looks like a dog 's made . |
| 7 | Looks like a castle dun n it ? |
| 8 | Simon pulled himself up inside the kiosk : ‘ It looks like a bomb 's hit it ! — Is that the cash-box over there ? |
| 9 | This kitchen looks like a bomb 's hit it . |
| 10 | It looks like a bomb has hit it here |
| 11 | Well it looks like an arrow 's gone through it so I do n't think it would work . |
| 12 | She has stopped Keith from having cold drinking chocolate which he adores because a neighbour said the additives might be making him hyperactive . |
| 13 | She has stopped Keith from having cold drinking chocolate which he adores because a neighbour said that the additives might be making him hyperactive . |
| 14 | A company has banned its staff from wearing wedding rings after a worker lost a finger when her ring caught in machinery . |
| 15 | This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein . |
| 16 | But it is not the tampons that cause the disease but the bacteria which develops when a tampon has been in too long . |
| 17 | Its leader , Holger Nielsen , says he now thinks that a chance to influence Europe 's future is better than dependence on the EC without influence . |
| 18 | This simpler form of doing business is known as the ‘ provision of services ’ and occurs where a business remains in the member state in which it is established , and provides services , from that base , into another member state . |
| 19 | This occurs where an offeror provides cash out of its own resources to supplement a cash underwritten alternative . |
| 20 | Then the brass plaques tend to get taken off and happens where a stone remains . |
| 21 | SIR — It has already been reported that , contrary to official policy , the scientific merits of candidates for academic promotion in Italy are not given primary consideration by the members of the judging commission , so it often happens that a loser has a curriculum vitae ( c.v. ) clearly superior to that of a winner . |
| 22 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 23 | He says that a Cavalier appears in the corner , a Shepherd and his dog , hands grip at those who sleep in the bed and a monk walks through the wall ! |
| 24 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 25 | Joseph Colucci , and executive director of research at General Motors , says that a consortium founded last summer in low-emissions technology offers the best match between the administration 's goals , the capabilities of the federal laboratories and the industry 's priorities . |
| 26 | Wittgenstein says that a child learns to use pain-language ‘ to replace its moans ’ . |
| 27 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 28 | Polis life was further advanced there — Pindar speaks of ‘ the cities ’ of the Aleuads — and Greek inscriptions go back to earlier dates ( extant ones start c .550 , L. H. Jeffery ( 1961 ) Local Scripts of Archaic Greece , p. 98 , no. 1 , a sacred law ; and Pausanias ( x. 16 ) says that a statue dedicated by a Thessalian called Echekratidas was the first dedication ever made at Delphi ) . |
| 29 | The Sierra Club says that a law requiring new cars to use 40 per cent less fuel by the year 2001 would save 2.8 million barrels of oil a day . |
| 30 | For some reason best know to those who drafted the Bill , line 23 of clause 60 says that a railway means a system of transport employing parallel rails which ’ ( b ) form a track of a gauge of at least 350 millimetres . ’ |