Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [Wh adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear of this confusion of values was still so real for the Reverend Alexander Cruden in the late eighteenth century that , not content with defining and illustrating the term from biblical texts , he added two paragraphs of solemn warning : Yet there is a cure , if men recognize divine omniscience : Cruden is echoing Christ 's words in Luke 's gospel , as Milton had done in Paradise Lost , after describing how Satan 's disguise deceived the archangel Uriel : Drawing on a pagan tradition , Montaigne passed a similar judgement on lying : ‘ To say that a man lieth , is as much as to say … that he is brave towards God , and a Coward towards Men . ’ |
| 2 | This involved him in showing how Freud 's theory needed modification so that it could be integrated into the Parsonian social and culture systems theory . |
| 3 | A large section of the report is devoted to explaining how Blake 's mail , visits and his Arabic correspondence course were all carefully vetted by MI5 in case they contained coded messages from the Russians . |
| 4 | IT IS impossible to understand the Victorian age without understanding why Darwin 's theory of the origin of species was so disturbing ; and perhaps it is equally impossible to understand the argument over evolution without learning why it was so fiercely resisted , by scientists as well as laymen . |
| 5 | She devotes the major part of the book to showing how psychology 's view of children has become more rounded . |
| 6 | It is also worth mentioning how Mach 's principle is explained in this context . |