Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The main concern of Out ( 1964 ) , Such ( 1966 ) , and Between ( 1968 ) is the process whereby the subject constructs his or her identity in and through the language of specialized discourses , and the way in which he or she acts on those discourses to make them ‘ run here and there again' . |
| 2 | The real value of regression therapy is demonstrated when the patient is aware of how he or she acts in certain circumstances but can find no reason for it at all . |
| 3 | Generally , the approach in this initiative is based on the conviction that the primary and most basic interface between the individual and the social world is to be found in the day to day transactions he or she has with other individuals . |
| 4 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 5 | The second point of similarity emerges from the point of his analysis where he talks of changing codes of conduct . |
| 6 | Isotelus is typical of the North American continent , where it occurs in many localities . |
| 7 | Where it differs from such discourses ( those associated with Bateson ( pp. 81–2 ) and Wright ( p. 88 ) , for example ) is in Leavis 's insistence upon the " exercise of the sense of value … controlled by an implicit concern for a total value-judgement " , and based upon " familiar " literary works , " the nature and quality of which are immediately obvious " . |
| 8 | In 1976 in the Conservative Monthly News Lord Whitelaw was clearly of the opinion that ‘ Undoubtedly , economic mismanagement … where it leads to high levels of unemployment , especially amongst young people , also contributes considerably to increasing the number of those tempted into a criminal life . |
| 9 | The Scarlet Ibis comes from forested wetlands of Central America , where it feeds on invertebrate animals containing the pigment carotene , which gives the birds their gorgeous plumage colour . |
| 10 | The grass is either permanent or it remains for several years as a long ley . |
| 11 | Er I did ask the question as well what what 's going to happen to these trees or what happens to these trees when the City Council removes them and I 've never got an answer yet and I 'm going to keep asking somebody some day will give me an answer . |
| 12 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 13 | For these reasons , an analysis of the so-called ‘ uneven playing-field ’ in Europe does not need to dwell for too long on the fact that there remains in many countries a low level of compliance with the rules . |
| 14 | Bill Mumford says that everybody goes on these trips comes back changed in some way … its a maturiing thing … and maybe it 's a lesson for all of us we should feel inspired by disabled people trying something remarkable |
| 15 | The defence applies in cases of intentional and negligent infliction of harm , although it operates in different ways . |
| 16 | Although he allows for many areas of uncertainty in the study of catharsis , Scheff nevertheless accepts the universality of the need to handle destructive emotions , and proposes that ritual , as a cathartic experience , be reinstated in the West as ‘ a dramatic form for coping with universal distress ’ ( 1979 : 114 ) . |
| 17 | The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ . |
| 18 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
| 19 | Both management and unions tend to keep a tight grip on local activity to ensure that it keeps to national agreements and to avoid the embarrassment and disruption of uncontrolled local initiatives . |
| 20 | Care is thus needed with any numerical procedure , on the one hand , that its grid size is small enough to resolve , for example , a boundary layer ( Sections 8.3 , 11.2–11.4 , 12.4 ) and , on the other hand , that it extends into all regions of importance , such as a wake ( Section 11.5 ) , upstream wake ( Section 15.2 ) or Taylor column ( Section 16.4 ) . |
| 21 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 22 | Thus if a close approximation to such a transformer features in the bridge circuit of figure 7.10(a) with its secondary winding tapped so that it divides into two portions having turns N 1 and N 2 , the ratio of the potential differences across these secondary portions will be near enough . |
| 23 | Somehow or other your miond analyzes the light that it receives from these bodies and tells you about them . |
| 24 | We noted in Chapter 4 that it is hard to predict which sentences will have very many overlapping interpretations , that it depends on many factors including the phonemes in the utterance , the content of the lexicon , and so on . |
| 25 | Although the network approach does answer some of the problems of the hierarchical approach , particularly in that it deals with many-to-many relationships , it is more complex . |
| 26 | Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton . |
| 27 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 28 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 29 | Normally , these bubbles ( or vesicles ) are only a few millimetres across and quite thinly scattered , but sometimes , if the lava has been particularly gas rich , the rock is so honeycombed with large bubbles that it looks like some kinds of Swiss cheese ; more holes than solid . |
| 30 | Remember that it rhymes in two places : " " A tuba , " I said , " or some treacle , Or a toggle to sew on your mac , Or a tray or a ticket , a tree or a thicket , A thistle , a taper , a tack . " |