Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This personal quality of books was their greatest worth . |
| 2 | The overall accumulation of end-results is his year-end contribution to profit : the achievement of budget , sales targets and effective employee relations . |
| 3 | But many of the outputs of governments are themselves public goods , so the problem is not resolved but merely transferred . |
| 4 | To a tenth-century man or woman ( and Karl Leyser has shown the great importance of nunneries in the aristocratic social order of tenth-century Saxony ) , as to a modern monk or nun , the raison d'être of monasteries was their communal worship , their liturgy . |
| 5 | If she , and I , had been better informed , we would have known not to enter an establishment whose notoriously repulsive treatment of women is its chief attraction to its regular male customers . |
| 6 | If one adds to this one other incontrovertible fact — that the overwhelming majority of women have lived their lives without economic freedom or autonomy , but as dependants or chattels lacking control over the crucial fixed aspects of their own lives — then it becomes clear that the chameleon nature of women is their necessary self-protection . |
| 7 | The problem with photocells is their low efficiency . |
| 8 | Hopkins always maintained that work with men was her favourite form of campaigning . |
| 9 | ( Actually his dismissal of this type of evidence as not being relevant to institutions is one many anthropologists would agree with . ) |
| 10 | In 1977 , when I joined the organization , it was more than apparent that the other women did not have the remotest idea about women 's liberation , felt that doing the cooking for men was their political contribution , etc . |
| 11 | Standing at windows was his favourite situation for brooding , self-examination , consoling or condemning himself … wondering what to do next . |