Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English . |
| 2 | In response to a request from a member we ask a named practitioner ( medical or alternative ) if he or she has evidence of efficacy that meets these criteria and , if not , if he or she is obtaining such evidence . |
| 3 | In addition to rule-making , thereby reducing the degree of uncertainty confronting workers and management , it can also be a vehicle for resolving disputes , a power relationship and , where it takes place at enterprise or plant level , it may be regarded as a form of participation for workers or their representatives ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 4 | Although the desire to become a home-owner may represent a genuine social aspiration for these women and their families , there is no evidence that it guarantees satisfaction with housework : the housewives in the sample who did own their homes were no more satisfied than those whose homes were rented . |
| 5 | Those policyholders without index-linked policies have had to frequently increase their sum insured so that it keeps pace with inflation and continues to cover the full cost of rebuilding their homes . |
| 6 | If , however , I omit to do something with the result that it suffers injury to health which results in death , we think that a charge of manslaughter should not be an inevitable consequence , even if the omission is deliberate . |
| 7 | One of the principles of hypnopaedia is that it transforms sleep into hypnosis . |
| 8 | The first major problem with Fforde 's work is that it equates collectivism with socialism , which is as historically wrong as it is jejune . |
| 9 | Yes , certainly , because I think that it gives depth to life . |
| 10 | The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance . |
| 11 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 12 | The size and quality of this sample , its relatively recent date , and the fact that it includes travel on foot and by pedal cycle in the same detail as motorised travel make the resulting data particularly valuable for the study of many aspects of personal travel on weekdays in London . |
| 13 | One is that it provides scope for corruption ; e.g. , in the placing of government purchases , the allocation of commodities in excess demand , and in regulatory activities . |
| 14 | Such a usage is still ultimately deictic , in that it makes reference to participant-role , but it is not directly place-deictic ( in that there is no anchorage to the location of the present speech event ) . |
| 15 | Oftel does say that it believes video on demand comes under the auspices of the Broadcasting Act , rather than BT 's Public Telecommunications Operator licence , and while the ITC agrees , it also says that the question of whether it constitutes a broadcasting service has still to be decided . |
| 16 | As regards others who are terminally ill and whom the law regards as incompetent — for example , the unconscious , the mentally ill , the mentally handicapped , or the seriously confused — it is not clear that anyone has authority in law to consent to or refuse treatment on their behalf . |
| 17 | The very essence of the children 's hearing system is that a hearing , once it has jurisdiction in respect of a child , is empowered to examine the child 's entire social background in arriving at a decision as to disposal in the child 's best interests . |
| 18 | It is more likely that what connects creativity to madness is some aspect of the thought styles which psychotic and original forms of thinking have in common and which , in the psychiatric domain , can be observed across the arbitrary diagnostic categories of psychosis . |
| 19 | If she If she has room at home . |
| 20 | He 's a good worker ; he puts his back into the job and he gives value for money . |
| 21 | Take the kite down to ground level and at either side , it will again reach a point where the aerodynamic forces are balanced , and it hovers nose into wind , the spine horizontal and cross-spars vertical . |
| 22 | And it helps stave off cancer , did n't it ? |
| 23 | It is the sentence , and nothing else' which has sense , and it has sense in virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 24 | It is the sentence , and nothing else , which has sense , and it has sense by virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) If a decision-maker establishes a procedure or practice for the making of decisions , which gives advantages to those affected by them , he creates a legitimate expectation that he will follow that procedure or practice in relation to any particular case , unless or until he gives notice of intention to change the procedure and an opportunity for those affected to make representations : see again Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 408G. ( 3 ) A decision-maker is required to adopt a procedure for decision-making which is fair in all the circumstances . |
| 26 | Yet if it goes hand in hand with a commitment to redistributing power and wealth , literacy becomes one of the tools a government can use to create a new society . |
| 27 | If ‘ knowledge is power ’ then there is a danger that the system will lose much of its power if it loses control of information about itself . |
| 28 | Either way , the club remains legal and if it brings relief from pain on the greens then , say salesmen , it is worth every penny . |
| 29 | Finally , if he gets pain at night he should sleep on an extra pillow or raise the head of the bed a few inches to stop the gastric juices flowing upwards into his chest . |
| 30 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |