Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around forty senior figures from the Catholic church attended the ceremony which dates back many centuries . |
| 2 | However , the index itself takes up less space . |
| 3 | Each language has its own phraseology , its own idiom which rules out many options that are potentially available as grammatical sequences . |
| 4 | mm , any body who picks up that frame dad on its own , is gon na think bloody hell that 's |
| 5 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 6 | It seems that every time Robin sets sail in his venerable old craft he picks up some award or other . |
| 7 | But the division of labour within the enterprise is not a juggernaut which crushes out all trace of ‘ skill ’ or peculiarity in the wage-labour of each and every branch of production , and neither can the ‘ capitalist ’ attain the Taylorist ideal of total control over labour . |
| 8 | The definition of who is , and who is not , a housewife is phrased in terms of responsibility : thus a housewife is ‘ the person , other than a domestic servant , who is responsible for most of the household duties ( or for supervising a domestic servant who carries out these duties ) ’ . |