Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the LAD needs to contribute enough ( but no more than enough ) innate knowledge for the child to learn the grammar of a language from the utterances which she hears in the first four or five years of life . |
| 2 | Eliot , though , is determined , like the anthropological writers he had been reading , to make plain the root of the custom , which he does in the next line , ‘ And flowers of deflowered maids ’ . |
| 3 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 4 | Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed . |
| 5 | The second letter is difficult to place since Leapor is responding to a gentleman whose comments on her work are relayed by someone else , or to whom she refers in the third person for reasons of politeness . |
| 6 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 7 | And so what it does after the first ten minutes , it says , look I 've had enough of this , what 's the grey haired old bugger on about now , oh , |
| 8 | With much-ballyhoo , Scottish Mutual has announced the introduction , from December 1 , of what it describes as the first ‘ risk-graded ’ Personal Equity Plan . |
| 9 | To detect the regularities in nature , propose a generalization , deduce what it implies for the next case and observe whether this prediction succeeds . |