Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Much of what is approved of may match up in their self-image with how they see their strengths and qualities of which they would like more . |
| 32 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 33 | Saussure speaks of semiology ( 1974 : 16 ) as a ‘ science that studies the life of signs within society ’ , a science of which we shall hear more in the chapter on modern French structuralism . |
| 34 | Other tribal cosmologies exhibit analogous features some of which we shall consider later . |
| 35 | There were , and still are of course , immense difficulties in the way of quantifying human phenomena , some of which we shall touch on later . |
| 36 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 37 | This is an artificial lake , the tremendous retaining wall of which you can see up above you well before you arrive there , blocking off the valley . |
| 38 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 39 | There are areas , one or two of which I will go on to elude to , which I still think are actually going to make for the greatest savings in the coming financial year and thereafter . |
| 40 | He has his failing however , I am sorry to say , the particulars of which I will explain when we meet . |
| 41 | My plan , the details of which I will announce shortly , does just that . " |
| 42 | Anyway , thank you all very much , er some of you we will see again tomorrow , ten o'clock . |
| 43 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 44 | See you just start off by going through them one by one and consider what point is being made in each and those of you who 'd like just to move round and join these two ladies . |
| 45 | ‘ I do n't know whether you 're one of those who are interested in such things — from what I know of you I 'd say probably not . |
| 46 | Lisa sat , arranging herself on the edge of one of the chairs , the stiff posture of one who would prefer not to linger . |
| 47 | Already there was a fledgling brewery at St. James 's Gate and the stage was set for the arrival of one who would sweep away the myth and mystery and bring instead the art and science of brewing to perfection . |
| 48 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 49 | He never pretended to feelings he did n't have and if he thought she 'd made a fool of herself he 'd say so , but never to do her down , never to boost himself at her expense . |
| 50 | So in a group you do n't need one of everybody you could have just half of these but everybody could fall in maybe two roles within that group . |
| 51 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 53 | If the before I come to go past it he would cut back in and and climb across even if if the next car then back in again you 're just going , you start out of line |
| 54 | In this new lab of his he can knock together a human being out of the unlikeliest odds and ends . |
| 55 | We add that this agenda is no less important in the context of the National Curriculum and mandatory assessment : although these seek to raise expectations and improve standards , of themselves they will achieve little unless professional attitudes , knowledge and skill are also attended to . |
| 56 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 57 | They are too frightened to leave their homes at night because they are terrified of what they will come back to . |
| 58 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |
| 59 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 60 | This figure does not , of course , take account of what you could earn on or do with your money if it was available to you . |