Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Allan Brawley is Professor of Social Work at The Pennsylvania State University where he teaches social policy and social work with the ageing .
2 I know of one evangelist who puts aside one day a month for prayer and retreat at a Roman Catholic monastery where he receives much support .
3 Bryan is prepared to arrange a programme once he has more details about their specific interests .
4 The orchestra contains pairs of horns and trumpets , but Leppard manages it with more lightness than he accords other work and textures are accordingly more transparent and Mozartian .
5 She is prone to pointing out to journalists that she has ugly hands ( her assessment ) , says she grew up thinking she was plain and now is so embarrassed by her appearance on screen that she never sees her films unless she 's forced to .
6 Hobbes ‘ s talk of ‘ true ratiocination ’ is an indication that he has some theory of what reason or ratiocination is , some explanation or analysis of it .
7 During the last couple of months that he holds that office , he will be judged harshly on what he does .
8 If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ?
9 Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard .
10 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to meet the chief constable of Essex to discuss proper implementation of section 39 of the Public Order Act 1986 in the Thurrock parliamentary constituency .
11 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to increase the penalties for the unlawful occupation of private or public land by traveller families ; and if he will make a statement .
12 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans to visit Mucking Flats in south-east Essex , to discuss industrial growth in the area .
13 Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside .
14 The stated objective of this new contract is to improve the standard of general practice and it proposes substantial changes in the way general practice is structured and financed .
15 The following two clauses come from Lincoln CAB 's code of practice and it illustrates one approach to the demarcation of responsibilities within a psychiatric hospital :
16 This latest book turns the spotlight on the human aspects and it offers excellent entertainment .
17 Apart from the support groups that CRUSE runs , it also produces a large range of literature about the problems of bereavement and it provides practical help in dealing with paperwork and other matters that a bereaved person may never have dealt with before .
18 Go and ask mummy if she wants any tea .
19 Is a judge ever conscious that his reputation as a judge is likely to be adversely affected in their eyes if he decides one way , and favourably affected if he decides another way ?
20 Of course , this is a catch twenty two situation because she has n't got the money to buy a to have the driving lessons or the money to buy the car cos she gets crap wages
21 We have been here five months and he has one month left to complete his sixty .
22 He is in a better position than others to initiate confrontation and he has some resources at his disposal .
23 He will be able to declare a ballot void if it appears third parties have interfered by voting when not entitled to do so , tampering with ballot papers , interfering with voters or exerting undue influence .
24 Graphic Communication is a new subject in Scottish schools and it replaces Technical Drawing .
25 Co-operative R&D may also reduce the costs of doing research if it eliminates wasteful duplication of R&D projects , and , to the extent that co-operating firms apply their research in a wider range of output markets , cooperative R&D ventures may undertake more productive research .
26 It could do good but it does more bad
27 ‘ He 's had trouble with campers , who 've broken down his fences and left fires that have caused a lot of damage — not Guides or Scouts , of course , who you know are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks but he puts all campers together and calls them all nuisances . ’
28 Volatile solvent extraction is employed a great deal in the perfume industry because it produces superb fragrances which are truer to the aroma found in the living plant .
29 It is a sound rule because it facilitates social contact .
30 Divorce has this effect because it suggests that remarriage in the lifetime of one 's first partner is socially and even morally acceptable' ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ; also 31 May 1986 ; 14 June 1986 ) .
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