Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pron] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |
| 2 | Seen in this light , management is an activity which only some people engage in , or as something which some people do to other people — once they have been chartered/qualified to do so . |
| 3 | Is it an affirmation of what his junior energy Minister says : that it will be acceptable for the Scottish Office to be staffed by Members from constituencies south of the border , or of what his Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Scotland have said in the past 24 hours : that nothing will happen , or is he considering the possibility of affording the Scottish people the right to determine their own future in a democratic fashion ? |
| 4 | Of these victims 367 were claimed in Farnes 's games for Essex , for whom he once performed the hat trick — against Nottinghamshire in 1939 — and for whom his best performance was 15 for 113 against Glamorgan in 1938 . |
| 5 | And although I believe he was referring to a certain kind of abstract thinking — the kind that reduced the English Hegelian tradition to a lyrical hymn to the Absolute , and of which his own thesis on Bradley of 1916 came very near to imitating ( which is why he declared , on its publication in 1963 , that he did not pretend to understand it ) , he possessed an outstanding capacity for reasoned argument . |
| 6 | Perhaps by magic , her hands were flowing with lotus oil , and with it her firm fingers anointed him . |
| 7 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |
| 8 | One of its central tenets is that studying black civilisation will boost the self-esteem of black students , and with it their academic performance . |
| 9 | As long as a son holds on to the mother as a love-object he must ineluctably be in conflict with the father , just as , conversely , as soon as he accepts the paternal authority and identifies with his father to constitute his superego he must suppress his fundamental parricidal antagonism and with it his incestuous fixation . |
| 10 | But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it . |
| 11 | for some days after the flight , the body clock — and with it our daily rhythms — will tend to lag behind . |
| 12 | It also involves an introduction to forms of discourse which were powerful in the past and from which our own culture has developed . |
| 13 | His chair was there , and beside it his empty bottle , but Woolley had gone . |
| 14 | It is this argument which your first paragraph promises and to which your last paragraph offers a conclusion . |
| 15 | Some though , and among them my dear lady Elizabeth ( always in her thoughts did Alianor refer thus to the queen-dowager ) think differently . |
| 16 | ‘ Suddenly Souness had to start from the bottom and try to build not just from an injury-decimated side , but from one whose senior players were in the most part over 30 and past it . |
| 17 | Annie Lennox 's first solo LP Diva ( an ironic title , she claims ) will comfortably pick up the Eurythmics ' many fans , but to me its high-quality designer soul has a sterile scent . |
| 18 | That kind of money might interest a little guy like you , but to me its just insurance money . |
| 19 | ‘ I may not be able to say very much to the mother and her kids , but I sympathise with them so much because of what my own family went through , ’ he says . |
| 20 | er and only because of what I different pitch it is on the phone . |
| 21 | This is a convenient practice as it avoids the need , for example , for speculation as to how the injured person 's condition will develop from the time of the initial injury or for speculation as to what his financial loss up to the date of trial at least will be . |
| 22 | Rick is unsure as to what his next move in this direction will be . |
| 23 | Any , any other guesses as to what my two words might be ? |