Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle , either sailing around the windsurf bay till the winds become gusty , or sailing upwind for lunch at the long beach . |
| 2 | Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle . |
| 3 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
| 4 | Games always result in a win-lose outcome where someone comes out on top but at the other person 's expense . |
| 5 | You have certain formatted sections that are the news , straight stuff , or running tabular matter or whatever , but then somebody weighs in on each section , at El Sol we have a graphics person on each desk , but they 're divided into work groups so different work groups do different pages . |
| 6 | Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday . |
| 7 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 8 | No one goes off like that any more . |
| 9 | And if we do get a period of rapid inflation , because if one looks back at seventy four seventy five , with inflation running at over twenty percent a year , stock market out of control , erm and er and er building society rates very poor , erm you know seventy four begins to look a bit like ninety four to me . |
| 10 | Her education was heavily concentrated on languages , Latin , Spanish and Italian , even probably some Greek ; among her formal Latin letters , written as exercises , one stands out with ironic interest , for it was addressed to John Calvin . |
| 11 | It may well fall off , but if it does fall off and everything gets back to normal it 'll grow back again . |
| 12 | Can we assume that something moves out of most buildings ? |
| 13 | Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters . |
| 14 | Most of the reactions one learns about in elementary courses in chemistry , and also most of the reactions shown in a chart of metabolism , require the forming and breaking of ‘ covalent ’ bonds . |
| 15 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It sounds as though you really do believe that everything comes down to monetary profit and loss . ’ |
| 17 | As this one comes up to this one here , this one then pulls out to overtake this vehicle . |
| 18 | Oh I mean I do n't want it to be a party where everybody goes off into different rooms , you know ? |
| 19 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 20 | If anyone comes up with extra ideas , that we or have n't covered , |
| 21 | Suddenly I start puking into the road , but nothing comes up except this slimy stuff . |
| 22 | Let the baby suck regularly — even if nothing comes out at first — and the milk should start coming through again . |
| 23 | Nought goes up to one , well nought is actually nought |
| 24 | We use it , and we find out that the square root of anything comes out as half of it . |