Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 2 | It is busy , open all hours , and full of shops which sell anything from ancient Chinese herbs and medicines to electronic gadgetry . |
| 3 | we use the same words we use them in different in the different area accents but i that 's all it is . |
| 4 | Furthermore , there are particular reasons which impel me to that conclusion . |
| 5 | As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity . |
| 6 | We 've argued that that would stimulate migration as opposed simply to accommodate past trends , so we 've argued that , but the the problem for West Yorkshire well for Leeds in particular is that the brown field sites we have , the regeneration that we need is not of sites which would readily accommodate housing , they 're not sites which lend themselves as nice places to live . |
| 7 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 8 | This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure . |
| 9 | You have things like heredity , marriages , divorces , erm some way of life which has to do with Islamic doctrine that you do and some dispute happens , you take it to the Islamic courts and they have religious judges who take it in that context and they go according to the laws of Islam . |
| 10 | So X squared plus two times something add something times two X. Okay |
| 11 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 12 | The eggs of other shrimps , by contrast , are not waterproof , but possess thick spongy coverings which protect them from bright sunlight and abrasion . |
| 13 | I hope you will allow me to remain somewhat sceptical about these vague reassurances which remind me of those that were regular given during the 1980s ( prior to publication of the Environment White Paper ) although it was evident that no rigorous assessment was ever made of the environmental effects of development . |
| 14 | Although major developments in the ecosystem were largely external to biogeography until the 1960s , Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 524 ) argued that the ecosystem concept has four main properties which commend it for geographical investigation . |
| 15 | Er the second polygyny where you have one male and then females and here reproductive success erm meaning that there 's a large again you 'll have the males who 'll have the large reproductive success than males who have none at all and erm of course often differences between male and female because the male has and the male has opportunities to erm try to control success rate the female biological and er consequently with this kind of system from female choice and male competition and er are about eighty percent and er polygamy is when you have many males and many females and er is also and er I would assume it 's kind of like males have opportunities . |
| 16 | We are currently considering these issues and expect to offer advice and guidance to actuaries who find themselves in these circumstances which can often prove difficult for a professional advisor . |
| 17 | She has criticisms against statutory agencies who do nothing about this for fear of being branded racists . |
| 18 | And we commence this morning with Lot number one Lot number one is showing to my right here , the ivory carving at fifty pounds at fifty pounds at fifty pounds you want it for fifty pounds , thank you sir , fifty I 've got now , fifty pounds is offered at fifty five at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy , seventy five eighty five ninety ninety pounds in the back row at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , any further bids at ninety pounds at ninety pounds . |
| 19 | From his letters and his wife 's memoirs we picture him in cheap cafés hunched up in his greatcoat over a cup of coffee , with Russian and European newspapers spread about him . |
| 20 | Lot forty two Lot forty two is the er large selection of auction catalogues and we 've got a sample showing , there we are works of art for you twenty pounds for them at twenty pounds anyone want them for twenty pounds sample showing for twenty pounds , anyone want them for twenty , thank you sir , twenty pounds I 've got in the centre and I shall sell at twenty if there 's no further bid at twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 21 | Twenty pounds anyone want them for twenty pounds ? |
| 22 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 23 | The term set is used in its generally accepted modern sense , that is a collection of items which have something in common . |
| 24 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 25 | Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis . |
| 26 | As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present . |
| 27 | There is also a ‘ second generation ’ of plastic cladding materials which have none of these drawbacks and which are also extremely easy to handle and install . |
| 28 | Using interviews with parents , and attendance figures from schools , the study documents how parents make difficult decisions which confront them in these circumstances , in particular whether or not to consult a doctor , and whether or not to keep the child off school . |
| 29 | If we are indeed a unique species then many of the behaviours which differentiate us from other animals are likely to be due to our genetic make-up rather than to cultural conditioning ; but the difficulty is to know just what these animal-human characteristics might be . |
| 30 | Campbell suggests that there are extra pressures on girls which push them towards certain types of crime . |