Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] [conj] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He banishes Hippolytus and prays for his death , which is granted when Poseidon sends a sea monster to upturn the young man 's chariot . |
| 2 | This marks their first exchange of vows , which is reiterated when Lise pretends to harness Colas by the ribbons to a trap of which she is the driver . |
| 3 | Nobody is spared as firm goes bust every ten minutes |
| 4 | She is insisting that Gerry finds them a ‘ love nest ’ a safe distance from his wife . |
| 5 | One is pictured as mum exchanges glances with her llama neighbour and Geoff Edwards , who is helping to look after them , said : ‘ They are really delighting the young visitors jumping about in the unusually warm and sunny weather . ’ |
| 6 | No one is saying that Cairo does not need the repairs , but the disparity does show the imbalance that arises when aid goes to urban , high-technology programmes . |
| 7 | It 's argued that metering offers consumers an incentive to save water , allowing you to limit your bill by using less . |
| 8 | The effect of this when it is accepted is very far reaching because the more an idea is tested the more it is validated and criticism becomes not a threat but an opportunity to strengthen the idea ; and what is more important scientists cease to have the same proprietorial attitude towards in idea . |
| 9 | There can be no good reason to object to this when it is recognised that efficiency incorporates personal factors such as safety , health and quality of working life as well as system factors such as productivity and quality of work . |
| 10 | It is said that Britain has become a country of High Mass Consumption . |
| 11 | It is said that Peru has some of the best liars in the world — I could n't know , they are so good I believe them ! |
| 12 | It is said that Rundell 's had to satisfy so many orders at this time that Storr & Co. was obliged to work , in the way of dinner services , centre-pieces , and other ceremonial and domestic plate , some ten thousand ounces of silver a month . |
| 13 | Another way of putting it is to say that RE has to offer feasible road-maps enabling pupils to chart their own way around the difficult country of religion with its complexity and ambiguity . |
| 14 | It is concluded that smoking reduces gastric secretion . |
| 15 | Generic social work with the general population in closely knit communities may obviously be best achieved through small , patch-based teams ; but no organizational arrangement is universally valid irrespective of context and it is damaging when fashion seems to dictate otherwise . |
| 16 | Officially , a spokesman for Trainload Freight sector said BR was in negotiation with PowerGen about a new contract , but it is understood that BR sees the contract cancellation as merely a negotiation ploy and feels a new deal could be struck . |
| 17 | It is understood that SFA regards an agreement as in writing for this purpose even if its terms are set out in a terms of business letter accepted merely by conduct ( which is especially important where the intermediary is not a private customer ) . |
| 18 | And while Clough misses out again , it is understood that Blanc has a contract that will take him to French drama club Marseille in the summer . |
| 19 | On the one hand , it is argued that labour costs in advanced countries have become too high to be competitive for many industrial tasks . |
| 20 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 21 | It is assumed that research has established what the nature of child abuse is , who the actual and potential perpetrators and victims are and hence what are the associated factors which put children at ‘ high risk ’ . |
| 22 | Outline some of the evidence from which it is believed that water has not been lost in large quantities from Venus , and the evidence which indicates that some may have been lost . |
| 23 | Thus it is believed that polystyrene forms miscible blends with poly ( vinyl methylether ) , and with poly ( phenylene oxide ) s ( examples 1 and 2 , respectively ) because of interactions between the π-electrons of the phenyl rings and the lone pairs of the ether oxygens . |
| 24 | It is believed that information relates to confirmed sightings of Moira on the night she disappeared . |
| 25 | It is believed that information relates to confirmed sightings of Moira on the night she disappeared . |
| 26 | For it is that history , and that revelation , in which it is believed that God has made Himself known . |
| 27 | For it is believed that God has been revealed in a peculiar way to a certain people , and in particular made known through the person of Jesus Christ . |
| 28 | It is believed that Knighton has also had talks with Midani , at which he offered him control of the club , with Knighton himself staying on as vice-chairman . |
| 29 | It is estimated that smoking causes some 100,000 premature deaths every year [ 1 ] . |
| 30 | It is estimated that smoking causes 100,000 premature deaths every year [ 1 ] . |