Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 2 | Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere . |
| 3 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 4 | But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life . |
| 5 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 6 | The second key let them into a vaulted stone cellar , and groping torch in hand along the far wall behind the piled casks of wine , Thomas brushed the cobwebs from a low , insignificant door . |
| 7 | Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation . |
| 8 | The test of its validity is whether the subjects of the research accept it as a true account of their way of life . |
| 9 | Two lifts link it with the private sun terrace , bathing platform and sea water swimming pool below . |
| 10 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 11 | Obediently she returned the gesture , meeting his mesmeric gaze , feeling the power of his appraisal bathe her in a tingling aura before taking a deep , refreshing swallow . |
| 12 | It 's just I mean as philosophy just very standardly takes words from ordinary language gradually gets a technical meaning , er which is different from the original meaning and then when ordinary speakers use it in the original meaning they get told off . |
| 13 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 14 | My eyes fail me like every other part of my body . ’ |
| 15 | On the other hand , the buyer will wish to have the comfort of the guarantee , and , in addition , whatever rights law and statute grant him in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 16 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 17 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 18 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 19 | He urged people not to let the short-term problems of recession blind them to the long-term truth . |
| 20 | The texts of Roman law bring us to the intriguing conclusion that by late classical times the only person who acquired property under trust and with it an unassailable title was the bona fide purchaser for value without notice . |
| 21 | Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines . |
| 22 | Turtles provide us with a different example . |
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| 24 | Save Air Miles tokens and make your Sovereign holiday something to really write home about — 1000 Air Miles vouchers entitle you to a whopping £60 off any holiday in this brochure . |
| 25 | Be it nuking the world , winning at Brand 's Hatch , or wrestling with pixies , will all this fantasy turn you into a blob-shaped brain-dead computer-zombie ? |
| 26 | Barnes and Seldon deploy it as a classic example of Macmillanesque subtlety in handling colleagues . |
| 27 | This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory . |
| 28 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 29 | By the end of the century they were dividing its work betwen them in a systematic and efficient way . |
| 30 | Ruthin join them in the last four after routing Rhos on Sea 8–1 , Arwyn Pierce and Stephen Flanagan and Geraint Wyn Jones and Dave Fuller with three wins and Sid Smith and Stefan Dowitcz two . |