Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm often asked if I get sick of making presentations and signing autographs but I always answer by saying that the time to worry is when no-one wants me to do these things . |
| 2 | For instance , a child may inherit a predisposition to schizophrenia , which causes him to have certain childhood adjustment problems , which in turn bring about unusual family communication styles . |
| 3 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 4 | Fuel is these young mothers ' greatest problem : it takes a large chunk of their small income , and many mothers are also housed on estates with either excessive heating costs or minimal heating provisions , which forces them to use expensive alternatives . |
| 5 | These rooms are nothing but a dangerous hazard for the adventurers , and best avoided , unless you are using an adventure theme which forces them to enter these terrains to regain some lost object or person ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) . |
| 6 | Assuming QRAM is like QEMM386 , you can most likely add an Include statement to your QRAM line in CONFIG.SYS , which forces it to use this area of RAM . |
| 7 | In the third term they embark on a general survey of the History of Medicine and Science which allows them to put other subjects which the study into their historical context . |
| 8 | The admission of new members to a Europe which allows them to adopt common policies only where they are feasible and productive , and the consequent necessary institutional changes which will allow existing members this option , would bring about the effective development of a ‘ Europe of varying geometry ’ in a calm and deliberate fashion . |
| 9 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 10 | Bird Semple Fyfe Ireland has commissioned a piece of 4GL software which will be unique to the firm in the Scottish legal world and which allows it to produce any report required either for management purposes or for clients . |
| 11 | The option consists of two pages : an initial page which allows you to select the mail messages you wish to inspect , and a second page which allows you to inspect each mail message , page by page . |
| 12 | The option consists of two pages : an initial page which allows you to view the titles of the mail messages you will be inspecting , and a second page which allows you to inspect each mail message , page by page . |
| 13 | Launches Power Keyboard , which allows you to map all sorts of things onto your keyboard |
| 14 | Many now have a pause button which allows you to avoid these irritations and means that play starts again immediately you release pause . |
| 15 | This is now possible with an add-on card from Hydra Systems Inc. who produce the ANDOR EX — a 33MHz Mackintosh compatible upgrade board which allows you to run any Macintosh software and any PC software on the same machine . |
| 16 | Human language is not just a tool by which we control other people and control the material world out there ; it is also a device which allows us to formulate metaphysical concepts , and to recognize , at a conscious level , the binary oppositions which are basic to the structure of ordered thought . |
| 17 | The Times Educational Supplement applauded the increased use of intelligence tests and deplored the existing exams : ‘ Some day our successors may come to marvel at the degree of assurance which leads us to think that ability to profit can be predicted thus . |
| 18 | When you have lined up your data in this way a glance will tell you for which sounds you have enough words to make check lists . |
| 19 | But in poor families , many youngsters spend Saturdays earning money or helping at home , which prevents them attending such classes . |
| 20 | The design of the motherboard ( featuring Intel Xpress architecture ) means that system RAM is decoupled from the processor , which lets you fit any speed of upgrade processor . |
| 21 | This diagnostics program includes a module which lets you test individual components or the entire machine . |
| 22 | Her instinctive creativity , and her association with the future rather than the past , could be the fuel which helps us to generate new forms and roles for women today . |
| 23 | Now the organisation which owns it says more room is needed to accomodate all the visitors . |
| 24 | Like cows , antelopes , giraffes , deer , camels , hippopotamuses and peccaries , pigs are artiodactyls , which means they have four toes on each foot . |
| 25 | Well they do n't in fact Gill , in fact horse chestnuts are rather interesting , that technically what 's called andromonetius which means they have male flowers and hermaphrodite flowers on the same , so it 's hedging its bets all ways round . |
| 26 | We face real threats internationally from pollution , over-population , from famine , from nuclear accidents and from the collapse of an unjust world economic order which means we take more money from the poor than we lend them every year . ’ |
| 27 | Which means you have creative energy . |
| 28 | No , when it comes to resurrections , I believe in the defibrillator and that 's about it ; which means I have less trouble with Frankenstein than I do with say , Lazarus , to cite one of Pa 's favourite yarns . |
| 29 | His goal is to score 100 points before the season is over , which means he has five games in which to hit the century mark . |
| 30 | The resolution for the first time puts the entire UN force in former Yugoslavia under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which permits them to use military force to accomplish their mission . |