Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one goes into a loose scrum with the intention of inflicting injury on an opponent . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone lives on a neighbourly basis with each other . |
| 3 | Of course , not everyone lives in a nuclear family , and there are families where the costs are shared equally or nearly so , or where the housing tenure is held jointly by both partners , but they are not the norm . |
| 4 | I told her : ‘ This is almost my favourite kind [ of book ] — when someone goes to a decaying country house , and finds a lot of odd people in it . |
| 5 | The first of these assumes a direct link between what happens before someone behaves in a certain way and their subsequent actions : |
| 6 | Where somebody goes to a public meeting and does n't say |
| 7 | The six screws at the front of the bridge plate are different to those of a Strat in that each one has a V-shaped groove which fits into a corresponding knife edge on the bridge plate . |
| 8 | Go along the rocks , descending the path which goes through a broken wall and joins a farm track opposite some farm buildings . |
| 9 | AN OPINION poll published yesterday showed a widening Danish majority for a ‘ yes ’ to the European Community Maastricht union treaty which goes to a new vote on 18 May . |
| 10 | The medieval period sometimes attracts people who are looking for some general structure for the undergraduate curriculum which goes beyond a mere aggregation of subjects ( see , for example , MacCabe 's 1982 , proposals for a ‘ modern trivium ’ ) . |
| 11 | The same insistence upon a curriculum which goes beyond a narrow conception of role initiation may be found even in North America , where trade union traditions are relatively apolitical but not all union education is as blinkered as that offered by the British TUC . |
| 12 | The concept of the breach of a contingent or potential duty which crystallises into an actual duty after the act or neglect has occurred is not an easy one . |
| 13 | She is wearing her party smile which slashes to a snarling slaver and she makes it to the kitchen where cold steal lies on Dutch tiles . |
| 14 | The subjective threat perceived in rejection by a spouse or lawyer is given cultural expression and concrete content in the concept of sasoo , which refers to a malevolent mara ’ called a ‘ sasoo woman ’ or ‘ sasoo man ’ , that may attack the rejected party . |
| 15 | The second point to note is that there is a positive sense of the word ‘ stress ’ , which refers to a certain level of challenge which is bracing , energizing and focusing . |
| 16 | This means that when one is treating a patient with homoeopathy , a substance is used which produces in a healthy person symptoms and signs similar to those presented by that patient . |
| 17 | Today 's Melody Maker concentrates on pop 's more adventurous independent fringes , while RM remains a likeable dog 's dinner , differing from the others in its A4 format , its glossy colour pages , and content which veers from a left-field feature style to consumer-guides for club DJs . |
| 18 | He is also concerned with evaluating the seminars he runs — both the ‘ staff lunches ’ and afternoon seminars — so that there is an on-going assessment which contributes to an overall sense of commitment to the task . |
| 19 | The circle demonstrates that it is a combination of many factors acting upon each other which contributes towards a troubled personality . |
| 20 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 21 | It 's the new Protagon , the tennis racket which sounds like a drug but which plays like an old friend , the loyal doubles partner who helps you to cope with the important things in life , things like how to fox the club champion who usually knocks you off without ever getting out of auto pilot mode . |
| 22 | This study which builds on a previous study of social class variations in surgical rates , focuses on women suffering from menorrhagia ( heavy bleeding ) — a common indication for hysterectomy . |
| 23 | Our main conceptual framework in the first part of the research is one which builds upon a dual understanding of marriage as both relationship and institution . |
| 24 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
| 25 | The treble end of the check continues to be lifted , with the gap-spacer as a pivot , until the bass end , which rides on a vertical pin , is seated on the raised side of the action frame . ’ |
| 26 | This is signalled by a brief bleep , which turns into a frantic beeping when the Expert 's battery is about to run dry . |
| 27 | Finally there 's the ultra slim Ibanez FGM 100 Frank Gambale Signature model , which turns from a lightweight jazz/fusion guitar into a heavyweight rock monster at the tweak of a pot . |
| 28 | This is illustrated by the properties of the derivative , , which is an unassociated black-green paramagnetic liquid , which vaporises to a blue gas . |
| 29 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 30 | The FM part refers to the flame maple veneer , which sits atop a four-piece alder body with a Transparent Red ( you guessed it ) finish . |