Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is not chronological but logical ; that is , it will set out how , having invented the six criteria with which I began Chapter 8 , I have tried to meet them using the passive avoidance task . |
| 2 | There was a practical circus item which asked pupils to weigh given letters and then cost them using the postal charges table ( see Table 4.8 ) . |
| 3 | Staff sponsored them to wear the furry animal costumes to raise funds for the ‘ Make A Wish Appeal ’ which makes dreams come true for sick children . |
| 4 | It certainly makes me regard the next car commercial with a new pair of eyes . |
| 5 | Nothing irritates a daily newspaper picture editor more than an allegedly topical photograph sent to him by post . |
| 6 | It was only with great effort that was able to get them to arrange the Open Door Schooling visit so that it was useful as a teaching exercise , instead of being a ceremonial procession through the commune . |
| 7 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 8 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 9 | Malatie and her husband were prepared to make sacrifices so that their children might get a decent education : they were paying for two of them to attend a special boarding school for Harijans . |
| 10 | The way the police deal with them is brutal violence — making them swallow a complete glue bag , torturing them , burning out their eyes , cutting out their tongues and their ears . |
| 11 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 12 | And Dearle claimed that in addition to the small scale of their work and the inexperience of their members , the committees also suffered from a difficulty in gaining the support of employers , especially in persuading them to grant the young worker time off for further education . |
| 13 | Everyone has a different pain threshold but how much of that is due to what is going on in the mind is hard to say . |
| 14 | When banks withdraw funds , the Bank of England relieves the resulting discount market shortage at that rate of interest which it thinks appropriate , nudging rates upwards perhaps to reduce the demand for bank lending or lowering them to counteract a rising exchange rate . |
| 15 | [ Finally as we have mentioned before it is now necessary for me to obtain a Corporate Finance Engagement Letter and we enclose two copies of our standard letter . |
| 16 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 17 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 18 | It was too easy to gain access to a Company 's computer records when everyone used the same communications web . |
| 19 | He worked in another part of the factory , but everyone used the same coffee bar . |
| 20 | I became a total bird addict . |
| 21 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 22 | They when I when I became a full time employer er a full time employee with the union it was all more or less small bakeries . |
| 23 | Erm in the nineteen fifties and right up until I became a full time official , erm there was generated an opinion that if companies were financially well off , due to the effort of the employees , then there was some formal entitlement for employees in these particular undertakings , to put forward a separate claim at domestic level , to , to enhance their pay . |
| 24 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 25 | My offending started when I became a habitual glue sniffer at the age of 12 and I began stealing to finance it . ’ |
| 26 | Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks . |
| 27 | CHOOSING my words carefully , I asked a top Mercedes-Benz diesel engineer some time ago which diesel he would drive — assuming that he could n't afford a Mercedes . |
| 28 | ‘ I avoided the massive guitar solo thing because it never really fitted in the songs and that 's what 's important . |
| 29 | For most of my stillwater legering , except for carp , I favour a fixed paternoster rig . |
| 30 | Instead , he offered a pair of trust-mes : ‘ I favour a strong exchange rate … |