Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , I doubt whether calling moral principles of this sort ‘ natural law ’ is in accordance with any natural law theory , which standardly requires a form of authoritative promulgation in addition to rational justification , something which is not a feature of existing international law .
2 Since it is the public who report crime , and the police who decide whether to record such reports officially , crime rates and crime trends are also the products of the ‘ reactors to ’ rather than the ‘ doers of ’ crime .
3 And supposing we identify particular features we judge as exemplifying these things , what is the evidence that those features do n't mean something else entirely ?
4 We consider a matrix A , which for the moment we regard as having distinct eigenvalues .
5 So the insistence of some employees on cash payment tends to slow down the trend to cheque or transfer payment , and therefore to that wider use of bank accounts which we see as bringing considerable advantages to consumers in money management and cheaper credit availability .
6 They indicate that their holders identify with their society and hold themselves to be under an obligation to obey the law which they regard as expressing that attitude .
7 Biologists try to interpret the structures they see as performing some function , subject to the constraints set by the materials of which they are made , and the conditions under which they must operate .
8 This transmission of culture is aided by the tendency to recruit in ‘ one 's own image ’ where members of interview panels tend to look for similar qualities that they themselves possess when recruiting new members .
9 Even categories such as time and number , which many of us take as reflecting basic aspects of experience , are only optionally indicated in some Asian languages such as Chinese and Vietnamese .
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