Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He regarded that case as deciding that an agent for principal A who has chosen to act for another principal B on whose behalf he acquires information can not be forced to divulge such information to principal A but can be held liable in damages to principal A for breach of duty . |
| 2 | Erich Fromm , who has continued to work on both lines of development together , as psychoanalysis should , has equally unfortunately dropped the death instincts , and at times the sexual instincts , out of his work . |
| 3 | Marjorie Roper and her husband say they 've already paid their poll tax once , and should n't have to clear the debts of those who 've refused to pay at all . |
| 4 | Anybody who had hoped to get past these two ladies without paying her dues would have been squelched by a look ; and the pile of dollars in front of the treasurer grew as the number of white name cards in front of Mrs MacPhail diminished . |
| 5 | There , Mortimer conducted a briefing for some fifty of his men , who had volunteered to go on that night 's operation . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got this Unesco thing coming on — oh , here are the Fairfaxes , ’ he declared , as the door opened to admit a tall middle-aged man and an even taller woman , obviously husband and wife , who had grown to look like each other in a rather unfortunate way , their small heads and long stringy bodies seeming as if they must have combined the worst features of each . |
| 7 | The obvious disadvantage inherent in such a move would be the adverse reaction among those sectors of the general public who had chosen to invest in such privatized companies . |
| 8 | But the new gentrification ( or yuppification ) is conditional on the existence of social agents , the ‘ gentrifiers ’ themselves , who have to choose to move into these areas . |
| 9 | Middle layers of organisations are often overcrowded with culturally rigid managers who have failed to deal with this cultural dilemma ’ |
| 10 | It explains that ‘ the picture that emerges is of a group of people who were keen to engage in farming on their own account and who established themselves on a smallholding , often many years ago , but who have failed to progress beyond this first step in the farming ladder . |
| 11 | If ‘ home ’ means , though , the defence of self and close kin for what Rainwater calls the ‘ lower class ’ , it means something quite different for those who have managed to escape from this class and who have achieved a degree of economic and emotional stability . |