Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb base] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers and officials of my Department keep in touch with the CBI on a wide range of business matters . |
| 2 | Ministers and officials of my Department keep in touch with the CBI on a wide range of matters . |
| 3 | My legs go to tubes of warm jelly . |
| 4 | I saw my husband die in front of my eyes . |
| 5 | I recommend that all my students listen to records at least two or three hours a day . |
| 6 | My conclusions come from experiments in which comparison is made between subjects given discrimination training and subjects given a control procedure of some sort ( or sometimes , in the studies done with human subjects , no pre-training at all ) . |
| 7 | Those that remained awake became sluggish and temperamental , and their riders became reluctant to use their mounts save in times of direst need . |
| 8 | Those that remain awake are sometimes sluggish and temperamental , so their riders are reluctant to use their mounts save in times of direst need . |
| 9 | The numbers in her text refer to footnotes in which she spears the novelist with chapter and verse . |
| 10 | Her accounts come from letters to a penpal and published in the Daily Express . |
| 11 | Since sexuality is so deeply inbuilt in us , it is there from the beginning and only its manifestations change from infancy to old age . |
| 12 | Isolated spines are common fossils , and useful ones too , because their patterns vary from species to species . |
| 13 | In a more explicitly theoretical paper , Lavandera ( 1982 ) presents the general argument that syntactic variation can be studied only at a superficial level if the analytic method does not take account of the use which speakers make of variation for stylistic and discourse purposes ; frequently they exploit subtle differences in meaning of the kind which ( for example ) Weiner and Labov deliberately simplify . |
| 14 | The accommodation model deals with the adjustments which speakers make with respect to each other in a particular encounter , but it can not explain the " base line " of behaviour which each individual brings to that encounter , i.e. the speaker 's own norm , which is itself somehow related to the community 's norm . |
| 15 | In the experiment below , we use the continuation method in order to see which variables lead to preferences for singular or plural reference . |
| 16 | Concessions which judges make to workers at one moment in the class struggle may be removed at another . |
| 17 | The Family Care Scheme , which provided care for children in their own homes was from its inception open to children with disabilities and their families . |
| 18 | Measured as the rate at which fluids pass through cores of the rock or a bed of sand , the permeability is calculated according to Darcy 's Law and the unit relevant in most natural sediments in the millidarcy . |
| 19 | Then came the consignment of houseplants for the offices , tradescantia and sanseveria and ficus elasica that were doomed from the start to dehydration and ultimately to have their pots serve as repositories for cigarette ash . |
| 20 | Robert Bloomfield writes in The Farmer 's Boy of a harvest feast in which farmers join with labourers on equal terms . |
| 21 | For a start , America has proposed that Serbia be suspended from the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe if it has not halted its aggression against Bosnia-Hercegovina by April 29 , the date on which delegates reconvene in Helsinki after the Easter break . |
| 22 | The speed with which investors react to changes in wealth is dependent upon whether such changes are anticipated and whether it is thought that any gains are transitory in nature , arising from short-term price variability independent of the underlying trend rate of growth . |
| 23 | Rather it represents a configuration of several different and mutually interlocking strands , in which substances appear as objects in an intersubjective context . |
| 24 | The model is a short-run model in which there is no economic growth and in which producers respond to changes in the demand for their products by changing the quantities they produce rather than their prices . |
| 25 | Judgements as to its efficacy depend on observations of Government performance in the area of national expenditure on R & D , and evidence of clear thinking and rational policy-making is rather thin on the ground , partly as a result of the fact that the largest single proportion of Government-funded R & D is in the defence sector . |
| 26 | The pension fund loan and loan stock are to be repaid immediately following completion provided their terms allow for repayment on completion . |
| 27 | It could also explore the circumstances under which people get into difficulties over credit use , and ways of eliminating them . |
| 28 | Another way is to plot the area from which people go to school in the town . |
| 29 | And , furthermore , the ways in which people take in messages from ads are often almost subconscious . |
| 30 | Does management have a profile of the localities from which staff travel to work with an indication of the numbers using public transport ? |