Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The completion of the exercises involves them in an active learning experience . |
| 2 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 3 | Yet , the intimate knowledge of the sick individual often places them in an ideal position to link illness with iatrogenesis , and the better doctors will see such insight as a welcome assistance rather than interference , and make full use of it . |
| 4 | What is it about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that places him on an artistic par with Shakespeare or Rembrandt , a giant of his art ? |
| 5 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 6 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 7 | Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’ |
| 8 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 9 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 10 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 11 | Matt eventually replaces it with an electric violin , deep on echo and reverb , swelling and rolling like a full orchestra , pitching the sombre melodies into the realms of classic film soundtracks . |
| 12 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 13 | The boy or girl was not ‘ a blank piece of paper on which the teacher should write ’ , and it was in this liberal spirit that he condemned drill : ‘ Military drill fashions him to an approved standard as part of the machine ; whereas the aim of Scouting is to develop his personal character and initiative . ’ |
| 14 | Long before New York 's Whitney Museum mounts its own assessment in 1994 , the present exhibition introduces him to an European audience . |
| 15 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 16 | The young teacher who enjoys his work but also sees it as an attractive life style . |
| 17 | PC Paul Lewis of Leicestershire Police , said : ‘ This shows us in an unfair light . |
| 18 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 19 | If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser , the latter will acquire good title . |
| 20 | And he takes me to an Italian restaurant in Mitcham . |
| 21 | To the west of the forest an hour long walk takes you to an impressive waterfall , Spout Force . |
| 22 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 23 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 24 | Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards . |
| 25 | If the medium of issue is magnetic then the indefinite maintenance of bit-perfect records commits us to an active program of periodic renewal and integrity checking , or a one-off transfer to a more permanent medium . |
| 26 | Aside from that , it 's a system that adopts a metaphor that everyone is familiar with and implements it in an intuitive way . |
| 27 | The suffering which inevitably follows shall be deemed to be of no consequence , because physical evolution itself disregards suffering , or regards it as an essential part of the process . |
| 28 | The suffering which inevitably follows shall be deemed to be of no consequence , because physical evolution itself disregards suffering , or regards it as an essential part of the process . |
| 29 | Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer . |
| 30 | Sue now weighs 8st 3lbs ( 52 kg ) and tells me in an accompanying letter that her weight loss and subsequent new figure has completely changed her life in every respect . |