Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On point d ) of this paper , which I regard as a separate issue , I have already made the point at Research Management that Library staff are receiving many more non-Library enquiries now , referred from Exhibition Hall staff , from Shop staff , and from new Support staff on the switchboard . |
| 2 | When Beatrice Webb publicly renounced her stand against the suffrage in 1906 , she explained in a letter to Millicent Garrett Fawcett that : ‘ The raising of children , the advancement of learning and the promotion of the spiritual — which I regard as the particular obligations of women — are , it is clear , more and more becoming the main preoccupations of the community as a whole ’ . |
| 3 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |
| 4 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 5 | Instead , I bought a number of computer magazines which I read into the small hours each night . |
| 6 | Bed after regular bed shows a dark , laminated lower portion which I identify as an algal mat type deposit that has been ripped up and incorporated , in a graded fashion , in " cleaner " , paler sediment from offshore . |
| 7 | But by the summer I am writing a homosexual love-story which I preface with the following remark : |
| 8 | But outside a religious context , why should I ask for a certainty with which I dispense in every other field of life ? |
| 9 | Have well considered questions ready for both types of interview which you ask in a logical sequence . |
| 10 | Follow the signposts through the farm and onto the drive which you follow to the main road . |
| 11 | It is entirely tied up with the intensity of interest or desire which you apply to the various things you do . |
| 12 | At once you will have indulgence for all the sins which you confess with a contrite heart . |
| 13 | PERHAPS the most extraordinary thing about parenting is the speed with which you bond with the nondescript bundle presented to you in the delivery room . |
| 14 | With a tripod you lose the freedom of camera mobility which you have with a hand-held camera , and if you decide to dispense with a tripod , a position at 3 m ( 10 ft ) or so from the subjects will allow you to work the zoom from wide angle down to midrange for close-ups . |
| 15 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 16 | This latter step emphasizes the importance which you attach to the whole process . |
| 17 | The first is the acceptable result ( see 5b above on page 51 ) which you see as a realistic one . |
| 18 | A large vibration creates a strong wave which we hear as a loud noise , while a small vibration produces a faint sound . |
| 19 | A slow vibration creates low-frequency waves which we hear as a low-pitched noise , while a fast vibration produces a high-pitched noise . |
| 20 | C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ . |
| 21 | But such a dimension does help to explain why philosophy can be seen both as a mode of thinking in any discipline , and also a discipline in its own right ; for it is at least arguable that the ‘ questions about questions ’ in every field eventually converge on certain basic questions and concepts which we recognize as the traditional domain and concern of the philosopher . |
| 22 | … to outline a system of geomorphology grounded in basic principles of mechanics and fluid dynamics , that will enable geomorphic processes to be treated as manifestations of various types of shear stresses , both gravitational and molecular , acting upon any type of earth material to produce the varieties of strain , or failure , which we recognize as the manifold processes of weathering , erosion , transportation and deposition . |
| 23 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 24 | Without wishing to champion the Soviet system and the way in which it ‘ manufactures ’ its sportsmen , I believe the general philosophy underlying the integration of sports with other components of education is much more realistic than the irritating duality with which we labour in the Western world where educators are prone to see justification for particular studies in terms of their practical value . |
| 25 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 26 | Again we have not found significant polymorphism in this pattern which we take as a male specific pattern for the purposes of parasite sex determination in the laboratory . |
| 27 | If we fail to see any need to offer sound moral justifications for treating sentient creatures as mere ‘ commodities ’ , ‘ preparations ’ , ‘ models ’ , or research ‘ tools ’ , then we surely deny that very rationality which we cite as the single quality which elevates humans so far above the other animals . |
| 28 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
| 29 | These fears may be greater , for example , than those which we attach to the actual penalties imposed by the law — hence the use , and fear , of publicity in relation to criminal offences . |
| 30 | Copse Corner , copse er , is , is a name which we give to a small wood , a small group of trees is a copse , in India that can be called a shola , S H O L A |