Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 2 | Its present director is Sidney Newey , a successful career railwayman who sees almost endless possibilities for new routes . |
| 3 | This whole question of housework behaviour raises an interesting issue : in what sense can a housewife who has very high standards and extremely repetitive routines be considered ‘ pathologically ’ obsessed with housework ? |
| 4 | erm a sister who sends out wonderful letters and they 've been published , and my husband he calls , you know , whenever he can . |
| 5 | Similar views concerning conversion are expressed by Simone Weil who maintains that much missionary activity is both mistaken and dangerous . |
| 6 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 7 | mm , any body who picks up that frame dad on its own , is gon na think bloody hell that 's |
| 8 | G. Lightheart is our link with the Education Department keeping us informed and obtaining cash , especially for the Youth Club … to Ian Watson , the hall keeper who does so many things for the Association which are beyond his official duties . |
| 9 | G. Lightheart is our link with the Education Department keeping us informed and obtaining cash , especially for the Youth Club … to Ian Watson , the hall keeper who does so many things for the Association which are beyond his official duties . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |
| 12 | When roles become more segregated , as they do after the birth of a baby , even when both parents continue to go out to work , people are less able to avoid their envy of the opposite sex and of the baby who receives so much care and attention . |
| 13 | But one insider who believes more radical changes will be needed is the erstwhile engineering director , Michael Dunn , who resigned this week to join an engineering consultancy group . |
| 14 | There is no employee on the buses who enjoys as good conditions of service as applied before the passing of the Transport Act 1985 in the areas affected by that Act . |
| 15 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 16 | If a man who owns so much land dies and his sons are entitled to such a percentage , how much do his four sons each have , how much do three daughters each have , how much does the widow own ? |
| 17 | The last is a source of amusement for Waggoner 's family and friends , who find it delightfully bizarre that a man who weighs around 300 pounds and dresses down with a passion should pen a guide to etiquette and fashion for the vaunted Esquire magazine . |
| 18 | The Latin pauper means a person of modest means rather than someone without food , roof , or clothing ; Ovid defined him as ‘ a man who knows how many sheep he owns ’ . |
| 19 | FRANK CHAMBERLAIN , the 64-year-old chairman of Northamptonshire , is to become the next chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board , succeeding Raman Subba Row who steps down next October . |
| 20 | FRANK CHAMBERLAIN , the 64-year-old chairman of Northamptonshire , is to become the next chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board , succeeding Raman Subba Row who steps down next October . |
| 21 | He succeeds John Eversley who retires later this year after nearly ten years in the post . |
| 22 | But there is one other member of Jesus 's first disciples who affords considerably more insight into what his master was really doing . |
| 23 | Believe it or not , he is that fat cheery cockney who does entirely facile washing powder and chocolate gunge bar adverts on telly for which , laughing all the way to the bank , he gets paid vast quantities of money . |
| 24 | He is a rum customer who inspires violently different emotions among his colleagues . |
| 25 | All the heat is on Madonna who stars as Breathless Mahoney , the quintessential good/bad girl in yet another bid for Hollywood stardom . |
| 26 | The definition of who is , and who is not , a housewife is phrased in terms of responsibility : thus a housewife is ‘ the person , other than a domestic servant , who is responsible for most of the household duties ( or for supervising a domestic servant who carries out these duties ) ’ . |
| 27 | Luciano Pavarotti who has abnormally large lungs as has |
| 28 | She has Emma 's passion for matchmaking and continues to try to marry Kit 's sister Meg to a novelist , Patrick Barlow — who is the type of homosexual who has very agreeable woman friends , but is in love with an odious , common boy with ginger hair . |
| 29 | Van Peebles père soured on Hollywood after directing the now-classic comedy ‘ Watermelon Man ’ ( 1969 ) , about a suburban businessman who wakes up one morning to find himself black . |
| 30 | On many exchanges , it is just the seller of the option who puts up initial margin , with the buyer simply paying the option premium at the outset . |