Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb -s] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It could be suggested that my argument has merit in relation to undergraduate education , but that it makes no sense at all at the level of postgraduate education .
2 Ditched in the Vertigo dumper are the pop songs and in their place comes track upon track of similar-sounding , decidedly gloomy psychedelic romps which they do , on occasion , pull off by the skin of their mushrooms .
3 Akzo , the Netherlands , is to sell its colour concentrates business to M.A. Hanna , Ohio , US .
4 The foregoing examples illustrate an important sense in which theory precedes observation in science .
5 But her father wants treatment for annorexia sufferers to be improved .
6 Spencer 's ideological orientation was therefore libertarian : societies evolve from homogeneity to heterogeneity ; industrial society is highly differentiated and its government exhibits limitation of scope and diffusion of authority ; as civilization advances , so does government decay .
7 The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnamese frontier is the arbitrary point at which South-East gives way to North-East Asia — the industrial powerhouse of the Pacific , the region that most economists and businessmen mean when they idly refer these days to ‘ Asia ’ .
8 A typical day at the moment , explained , begins with audio tests on early shift workers whose job involves exposure to noise and lung function tests for those working with grain .
9 Teachers who do not possess the necessary skills for a qualitative analysis of phonological errors are encouraged , by the designers of Goldman-Fristoe , to use the test as a way of gathering systematic information about children whose articulation gives cause for concern .
10 He sill maintains contact with motor racing in Britain and the name of Stirling Moss still remains synonymous with the sport .
11 His friend vows steadfastness in friendship , but repeats his warning : his illness came from too much study , and he should n't do it again .
12 His wife mentions lack of status .
13 The performer is pursuing an objective and the great variety of his activity has meaning in relation to his objective .
14 I LIKE that you tell me about it , your flesh impatient with words , you say : go inside me — yeah — yeah — no — more — and your body whiplashes head to toe , the ill-appreciated G spot , baby you got it .
15 In particular , the traditional , if untheorized , distinction between serious literature and ‘ rubbish ’ has broken down ; as Franco Fortini said , the occasional slummings of the aristocratic writer of the past have given way to a situation in which we all live off the ‘ guano ’ which our society produces day by day ( Cadioli and Peresson 1984 : 85 ) .
16 This view of our purpose prevents frustration at loss of ‘ role within the church ’ and encourages a fresh commitment to evangelism as a way of life .
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