Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me I had an academic future , a considerable future . ’ |
| 2 | To choose , I have to judge that here and now , for me , one alternative is the better , and to make my choices consistently I have to add to ‘ Face facts ’ other principles to which I ascribe an imperative force , and ensure that they are logically compatible . |
| 3 | THE ANALYSIS — the precise way in which you dissect an historical topic will largely determine which information is relevant and needs to be noted . |
| 4 | I refer to your fax of 17 April , in which you provide details of the type of research you propose to do for which you need an electronic dictionary tape . |
| 5 | She was an excellent shrewd local politician and a comfort to her at the end of her life was the defeat of the atrocious plans of the Merrell Dow Chemical Company to build a plant near her beloved River Blackwater , the last campaign in which she played an active part . |
| 6 | One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable . |
| 7 | Our ability to ‘ read ’ objects for their social appropriateness and to impose upon any series or new forms that order which would make them culturally acceptable does not in any respect lessen the place of strategy , or the possibility of intent ; both , however , are accomplished within objective conditions of which we have an underlying experience , even if we choose to deny them in formulating strategy . |
| 8 | Excluding LVMH , these rose by 3 per cent to 1,023 million , which we consider an acceptable performance in the prevailing economic circumstances . |
| 9 | This may sound a somewhat highfalutin' way of making an obvious point ; but the obvious points are often the important ones : in this tension we find the limits of experience , beyond which we locate an objective universe and within which we locate subjectivity . |
| 10 | Similarly arable farmer is no doubt to be explained historically as derived from the term arable farm ( in which we see an ascriptive adjective ) by means of an agentive suffix . |
| 11 | He states that ‘ it is especially intriguing to discover very little activity in the form of theses about theses ’ , and this remains true today , despite the growth in their numbers , and the extent to which they form an integral part of the scientific communication process . |
| 12 | The greatest fear of American motorists is car-jacking , the latest fad among the country 's enterprising villains in which they steal an occupied vehicle , all too often shooting the driver first . |
| 13 | All modules are open to any student possessing the stated prerequisites although there are regulations for Stage II preventing students taking basic modules for which they have an equivalent qualification . |
| 14 | In this chapter we will examine what these statistics show and discuss the extent to which they provide an accurate picture of the range and extent of criminal behaviour . |
| 15 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 16 | He attended Highgate School ( 1851–4 ) , King 's College School ( 1854–5 ) , and King 's College , London ( 1855–7 ) , of which he became an honorary fellow in 1887 . |
| 17 | Current release Howard 's End , in which he plays an evil father , also has been nominated for an Oscar . |
| 18 | Of which he made an holy alliance . |
| 19 | On 22 March 1665 Coxe was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , in which he played an active role for the rest of the 1660s and a slightly less active one in the 1670s . |
| 20 | His paintings of Spain also made him an apt choice of artist for V. S. Pritchett 's The Spanish Temper ( 1954 ) and for Cedric Salter 's Introducing Spain ( 1953 ) for which he reworked an earlier drawing of Alicante . |
| 21 | Bayes 's tentative solution to the problem involves assuming that the lack of knowledge of the probability about which an inference is to be made may be represented by a uniform probability distribution , for which he gives an ingenious argument . |
| 22 | The size of the compulsory core of a discipline might tell us something about the strength of its identity , and the extent to which it constitutes an organic whole or , to use a common expression , ‘ seamless web ’ . |
| 23 | Thus , AEA is now beginning to contemplate a future in which it becomes an independent business , and its management is excited by the prospect . |
| 24 | Aubrey Herbert [ q.v. ] , with whom she founded an Anglo-Albanian association , said that ‘ she restored Albania to the memory of Europe . ’ |
| 25 | Yes , it 's a funny old thing , actually I must tell you I feel an awful lot better since I 've passed my I suppose , last Friday I saw a Solicitor and the divorce is now actually sat up on it 's merry way rejoicing , and |
| 26 | ‘ For this first operation , the seismic data will be processed outside Nigeria with a pre-qualified company with whom we have an established relationship . |
| 27 | There were two easels in the room and on one she saw an unfinished picture . |
| 28 | We we had an open day last Sunday , or Sunday before , I forget . |
| 29 | See we we have an awful lot of problems , I mean , not only the question of breaking into one 's home things like , car parking or things of a very high accident risk whereas , if we had a beat officer , at least we could set up some sort of local liaison , in so much that we could tell him about our sort of problems , and perhaps between us , resolve them . |
| 30 | This dry contempt strolls out even when its target is invisible : the narrator telephones the Fonsteins ' house years after they have lost contact and is answered by a young man , on whom he forms an immediate image — ‘ a thick head of hair , a beer paunch , a T-shirt with a logo or slogan . |