Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumulatively the features we have examined represent the world of a child surrounded and overawed by dimly grasped presences , a world in which the meanings which shape our own response to life are dissolved and reconstituted . |
| 2 | We all see things differently , according to the karmas which determine our own personal mind set . |
| 3 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 4 | In reality the costs would be very similar as the banks themselves cover their own forward contract exposures through money market operations in the various currencies involved . |
| 5 | Do you think it holds out a ray of hope among the problems which perplex us all so sorely today ? ’ |
| 6 | We were aware that there were men among the thickets following us , but it was the monkeys who caused us most trouble . |
| 7 | Her visitors in the Exeter nursing home where she died on 7th December saw all the qualities which made her such a servant of the trade continue unabated to the end — the common sense and humour , the courage , and the huge interest in others . |
| 8 | You will get clear , concise particulars of properties in your range — choose the ones which interest you most and we 'll make arrangements for you to see them . |
| 9 | This sort of control is harder for emotional people to practise and yet they are the ones who need it most ! |
| 10 | IN THE '90s a great many of the factors which affect us all in business will be so different that new management responses will be required , and I have sought to outline some of these elements in my latest book . |
| 11 | But each enterprise also wants government to be flexible , to discriminate in its favour ; and for itself wants to be free to take advantage of any shifts in the factors which improve its own bargaining power . |
| 12 | And often it was the women who sacrificed their own needs to satisfy those of the rest of the family . |
| 13 | Too often the role is left to a houseproud male or to the women who dig their own grave when entrapping themselves into a traditional duty , by doing it themselves out of resignation . |
| 14 | As she cleaned away the dishes she wondered what those wooden scrapings from her floor would tell the forensic scientists . |
| 15 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 16 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 17 | IT WAS heartening to read of the bosses who cut their own pay to help their business survive . |