Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those who took part in the sessions found it enjoyable and good fun , ’ commented Andrew , ‘ and although everyone has not yet managed to pack it in , the early feedback is encouraging . ’ |
| 2 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 3 | That is absolutely right , and nothing has more clearly revealed the Opposition 's attitude to people 's wishes in the matter than their persistent hostility to the 4 million or more people who have taken out personal pensions for exactly that reason . |
| 4 | Since the publication of Boris Shalotsky 's The Semiology of Lawn-Mowers : inflections of the genre , nothing has more graphically encapsulated bourgeois Angst than the disputed merits of different lawn-mowers . |
| 5 | I 'm amazed someone has n't already lynched the kids we think responsible . ’ |
| 6 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 7 | The rationale is interesting , and as so often with Justinian it has a moralistic flavour : ‘ because it is quite ridiculous and unreasonable that an object which someone does not absolutely possess among his property he should be able to transfer to others or charge as a hypothec or pledge or manumit and deceive the hopes of others . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Just because I knew Mills was suspected of betraying someone does not necessarily mean that I had anything to do with his unfortunate death . |
| 9 | Because somebody goes up ahead do n't they ? |
| 10 | Although alcohol is widely used for motor fuel nobody has yet extensively developed liquid alcohol as an alternative source of cooking fuel . |
| 11 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 12 | But when one understands how deeply rooted and historically entrenched are the forces likely to resist it , it will be neither swift or certain . |
| 13 | One needs therefore deliberately to seek the setting up of some new high-growth businesses ( in our case based technologically ) , which will replace those which are so successful at present , such as pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals . |
| 14 | ‘ No one has yet formally taken action , ’ says chief fund manager Dewitt Bowman . |
| 15 | For all their thousands of lines of protests , however , no one has flat out denied USL 's intellectual property rights . |
| 16 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 17 | In the absence of other worm supplies it may be hard to resist the temptation of feeding tubifex , particularly if one has not yet had any casualties following feeding . |
| 18 | On this approach , to take an old example , if one dug a pit for the victim to fall into , one would not be guilty under s.20 because one has not directly applied force to the victim . |
| 19 | No one has ever yet accused me of being short of words . |
| 20 | No one has ever accurately defined the Indo-Pakistan border at the head of the Siachen glacier , and since 1984 troops from both sides have been at war on the high passes of this inhospitable land . |
| 21 | No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ . |
| 22 | There was no trace of the bombers , and no one has so far claimed responsibility . |
| 23 | This way one feels much more invigorated when returning to the knitting machine . |
| 24 | The trouble is , one becomes too deeply involved to notice what 's going on … ’ |
| 25 | One does not logically follow the other , of course , but trying to establish theories purporting to explain blacks ' achievements as resulting from alleged natural gifts unique to blacks , by implication , reinforces the stereotype . |
| 26 | Halliday argues that one does not normally meet non-text of this sort in real life . |
| 27 | For the same reason , one does not normally restrict the denominator population to those who are of appropriate age and single . ) |
| 28 | One does not normally anticipate the presence of a burglar . |
| 29 | One does not normally have the choice however , yet this anomaly should not exist . |
| 30 | Looking back on the almost thirty-year-long era of the series , one does not automatically think of these essential mammerial features of the femme fatale when talking about Miss Sims . |