Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allegedly , erm , protests the , protects the citizen , and the , the logic of this argument , is really the Hobbesian argument , that if you let ordinary individuals have firearms they 'll go round killing each other , or so it is alleged . |
| 2 | So , when British representatives attend international conferences to conserve salmon they are treated as pariahs and are impotent because of the continuation of nylon drift-netting off the English coast . |
| 3 | We believe political officials have responsibilities we could not defend if we had to build these directly from the ordinary requirements of individual personal morality most of us accept for ourselves and others in nonpolitical life . |
| 4 | If , as a result , a particular chemical substance is concentrated at particular places , it may induce the cells in those places to differentiate in particular ways , just as the presence of galactose in the medium can induce bacterial cells to produce proteins they would not otherwise make . |
| 5 | I 've tried three times to see Mr he was n't available . |
| 6 | Jim Hind 's advice on planning calving dates raised points I 'd never considered and although obviously aimed at cattle , has made me rethink my goat mating . |
| 7 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |