Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 2 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 3 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 4 | Drinkwise 1993 is designed to provide the public with information about alcohol to help them make informed choices about drinking . |
| 5 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 6 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 7 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
| 8 | We use the same A , B , C , as in Example 1 , but select as our starting vector submatrix unc In choosing Yo we have selected simple vectors which are clearly linearly independent , and which between them bring all elements in A into operation in the formation of Wo . |
| 9 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 10 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 11 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 12 | Teachers have made links that have enabled them to write entire modules for GCSE and to involve people from industry in the classroom . |
| 13 | As most of their expansion had been in transport sectors , it was a natural step for them to try switching production from trucks to tanks . |
| 14 | Everyone has some kind of world view . |
| 15 | It is largely up to the banks themselves to decide on the ratio that they consider to be ‘ prudent ’ : i.e. the ratio that provides them with enough liquid assets to enable them to meet any demands for cash . |
| 16 | COLLEGE lecturers at Colchester Institute are to strike in protest over new contracts forcing them to work longer hours including weekends and bank holidays . |
| 17 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 18 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 19 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 20 | You may live in a modern house where the style of bare floorboards is acceptable , but nothing beats good carpeting as insulation . |
| 21 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 22 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 23 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 24 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
| 25 | It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 . |
| 26 | Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus . |
| 27 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 28 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 29 | Shall I make another pot of tea . |
| 30 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |