Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 2 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 3 | In the biography of every individual he or she begins in a state of infantile dependence which ‘ is characterised by a persistence of both primary identification ( the emotional state of the infant in the womb ) and the oral incorporative or ‘ taking in ’ attitudes ( contributed by breast feeding ) as the infant 's chief means of object-relationships after birth ’ ( Guntrip , 1961 ) . |
| 4 | If you are not related by blood , or were not legally married to the deceased , you can not inherit from him or her if he or she dies without a will . |
| 5 | When the actor represents the play , he or she draws upon a variety of verbal and non-verbal resources . |
| 6 | ‘ The eventual aim ’ , wrote Alexander Cockburn in Student Power ‘ is the cementing of a revolutionary bloc with working-class forces ; but the immediate power of the student lies in his university , his college , where he works as a student . ’ |
| 7 | There is a scene where he 's sitting in his bathrobe , where he looks like a woman from Coronation Street . |
| 8 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 9 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 10 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 11 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 12 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 13 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 14 | Minton must have recognised its truth for he bequeathed it in his will to the Royal College of Art where it hangs as a memorial to him . |
| 15 | Varroa originated in the Far East where it lives as a parasite on the Apis cerana species of honey bee . |
| 16 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 17 | The object also acts to integrate the representative individual within the normative order of the larger social group , where it serves as a medium of intersubjective order inculcated as a generative practice through some version of ‘ habitus ’ . |
| 18 | Liz and her family love colour , although she admits that she gets into a rut buying navy and black ‘ because it goes with everything ’ . |
| 19 | Lisa B says again and again that she knows as a model going into music she has to prove herself . |
| 20 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 21 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 22 | Similarly , remind yourself that even if the worst comes to the worst and you need to go in the middle of the interview it is no big deal although it feels like a disaster to you . |
| 23 | Chlorinated trisodium polyphosphate is the combination of a strongly alkaline phosphate and chlorine and therefore has a significant cleaning capability although it suffers as a disinfectant through its low chlorine content . |
| 24 | So , although it sounds like a greeting , it probably still has some of the ‘ come along , follow me ’ meaning in it . |
| 25 | The problem is that , although it pulls like a train , I ca n't get any more than 35 mph out of it , comfortably , that is . |
| 26 | Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists . |
| 27 | Although it appears as a contradiction , just like some of the stated motives of those leaving , I believe it is a form of adaptive behaviour . |
| 28 | Yes in the sense that although he comes from a peasant background originally , it 's a rich peasant background and he himself had er a reasonable education and subsequently erm built on the education that he was given becoming in part self-taught . |
| 29 | Tom Arnold himself is appointed , not elected and , although he reports to a committee ‘ representing ’ the voluntary party , he is not accountable to that committee , nor is that committee elected by the constituency associations on whose behalf it is supposed to act ( it does not even report to them ) . |
| 30 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |