Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 2 | Everyone understands the common language of money . |
| 3 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 4 | Nothing illustrates the blatant inequalities in society better than the fact that Durham County Council is having to close several old people 's homes . |
| 5 | And behind all of them lies the archetypal opposition between good and evil , light and darkness , creation and destruction , God and the Devil . |
| 6 | But singers with this ability ( and who also have absolute pitch ) are not very common , and if we want to have our music sung by the majority of singers , it is best to write within the normal limits : Many singers can exceed these limits , but we must remember that , apart from the fact that most people these days have middle-range voices , everyone has a limited zone in which the voice is at its best . |
| 7 | The system was carefully designed for confidentiality , and everyone has a separate ID for the survey . |
| 8 | The purpose of this chapter , however , is not to suggest clever ways of reducing your liability — although in fact almost everyone has a certain amount of scope to do so without in any way cheating on the system . |
| 9 | Everyone has a different experience of pregnancy , and some are troubled by less pleasurable effects like backache , morning sickness , fainting , and high blood pressure , as well as other physical or emotional changes : |
| 10 | Everyone has a different view of friendship and what it means to them . |
| 11 | Not everyone has a natural knack for choosing colours and patterns . |
| 12 | Everyone has an implicit knowledge of the grammar of his or her native language(s) . |
| 13 | We have SO MANY GREAT PRIZES to give away , everyone stands a good chance of winning something ! |
| 14 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 16 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 17 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 18 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 19 | While Adamski cues his samples and activates his drum programs , we are treated to an enthusiastic , if inaudible , bongo player , and tow backing singers , one of whom has the added advantage of being a fine mover . |
| 20 | While Adamski cues his samples and activates his drum programs , we are treated to an enthusiastic , if inaudible , bongo player , and tow backing singers , one of whom has the added advantage of being a fine mover . |
| 21 | The first point to note is that no-one has a convincing explanation for the existence of W-cells . |
| 22 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 23 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 24 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 25 | By having such behavioural criteria for the truth of a third-person statement , such as ‘ He dislikes So-and-so , ’ we are able to determine whether someone has a correct understanding of the term in question . |
| 26 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |
| 27 | It begins with the concept , where someone has the bright idea in the first place . |
| 28 | Year I develops a thorough understanding of programming principles , and provides a sound basis on which to build further programming experience . |
| 29 | Therefore , if someone develops a new form of layout for the components in a computer or a new configuration for printed circuit boards , these are unlikely to be granted patents . |
| 30 | Title I establishes the European Union as a formal entity . |