Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Corney & Barrow sell it from 12 Helmet Row , London , EC1 ; tel : 071 251 4051 ) . |
| 2 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 3 | People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not . |
| 4 | Asthma , heart conditions , diabetes or epilepsy expose you to special risks , and we do n't recommend you windsurf with any of these conditions . |
| 5 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 6 | For more evidence that addictions have something in common in the way they act on the brain as a whole , no matter which pathways they stimulate , look at the pictures on this page . |
| 7 | He thinks it 's ‘ nice ’ that people credit him with changing British photography , with breaking down the class barriers , with producing memorable images , but he also seems slightly amused by it all . |
| 8 | He shows that the maize is an important political symbol ; that people use it in ritual exchanges ; that its by-products are useful in ways unique to it ; in short , that it is effective in areas of life other than nutrition . |
| 9 | More generally , if we are to incorporate our results into a theory of ordinary language comprehension , we must explicate the relation between experimental task and the ‘ tasks ’ that people set themselves in ordinary reading and listening . |
| 10 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 11 | It is this ‘ position ’ that homosexuals find themselves in modern Britain that requires further consideration . |
| 12 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 13 | Scholes is not a Marxist , but his American cultural populism has affinities with recent Marxist writing ; at the same time , Hirsch and Scholes find themselves in unexpected agreement . |
| 14 | It put me in mind of the man I met there , and Ill tell you for free , you 're nothing like him . |
| 15 | You and Matthew have it for each other so bad you probably could n't add two and two together . ’ |
| 16 | Their experiences and feelings embrace lots of important areas of life — love , boyfriends , sex and contraception ; relationships with parents and friends ; school , adoption , abortion , pregnancy and birth , Mother and Baby Homes , surviving on social security benefits , living alone , getting married , and much more . |
| 17 | Er but there are of course h n while we 're on that point there are , I 'm afraid , there are s people who take advantage of Marks and Spencers , erm because they know there 's going to be no problem about having goods exchanged so what they do , they buy something from Marks and Spencers wear it on one evening for , for a party or special occasion |
| 18 | And God bless him for that . |
| 19 | Well , I think we 'll get a lot of calls , and people remember him with great fondness . |
| 20 | At NEWTONDALE HALT peace and tranquillity greet you in this dale where no cars can go . |
| 21 | Some hon. Members from Newcastle and Teesside have nothing but ill to say about development corporations . |
| 22 | This is excess mortality of er rates for males and females age one to four for different years of the twentieth century . |
| 23 | Surely if the courts and lawyers limit themselves to medical criteria as justifying their sex classification system , they must follow expert opinion . |
| 24 | Several pests and diseases manifest themselves upon aquatic plants . |
| 25 | In letters to Edward Carpenter written in December 1893 and January 1894 , Robert Blatchford said : ‘ Perhaps I 'm a prejudiced old Tory ; but the whole subject is ‘ 'nasty' ’ to me … if Socialists identify themselves with any sweeping changes in sexual relations the Industrial Change will be seriously retarded . |
| 26 | It can be spoilt if publicans serve it by unnatural methods . |
| 27 | Some sting , some bite , some throw poisonous hairs at you and others squirt you with blinding sprays . |
| 28 | Parkin asserts that only if women see themselves in non-family terms is stratification by gender meaningful , but he presents no evidence as to what women actually feel in relation to their family or class position . |
| 29 | All these pots and pans put them in that corner over there for me |
| 30 | Love , generosity and wisdom reveal themselves in visible beauty upon the wrinkled face of the old woman . |