Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have just found your September 92 issue , and having spent most of the day with my nose between its covers I shall put it on order with my local Smiths on Monday . |
| 2 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 3 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 4 | Yet on many other occasions you may actively wish to promote delegation and there are a variety of useful methods which can stimulate it in practice . |
| 5 | At this time when women could not hold property after they married , typically daughters were left trust funds which would provide them with an income , while sons received land , property and liquid assets ( Davidoff and Hall , 1987 , pp. 205–7 ) . |
| 6 | When he died , he divided his liquid assets and his land between his sons , having first provided for each of his daughters through setting up trust funds which would provide them with a good income . |
| 7 | That way you will not burn off too many calories which might prevent you from increasing muscle size . |
| 8 | " If you close your eyes you can see it in this room , the two of them standing there , rough kind of people . |
| 9 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 10 | Studying literature , then , is a serious business ; it is concerned with close examination of those authors who can bring us to a deeper ( and more moral ) understanding of humanity . |
| 11 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 12 | In another language where mother 's brothers and father 's brothers are referred to by different words we would see them as different kinds of relatives . |
| 13 | Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school . |
| 14 | I hope that employers , government and trainers themselves will treat it as a serious attempt by the trade unions to contribute to the debate on training for the industry . |
| 15 | We have several capital projects which will take us into new and exciting areas and if we ride out this recession better than others we will have the opportunity to make further acquisitions to expand our core activities . |
| 16 | They also require continuing support in those inter-professional consultation skills which can preserve them from being left ‘ stranded , resented and counter-productively ( deemed to be ) bearers of answers to problems which the rest of the staff could be helped to resolve for themselves ’ ( Sayer 1987 ) . |
| 17 | If , as children , we were given healing opportunities to grieve for a range of losses , whether it was falling and losing our precariously-achieved sense of balance , the death of a cat , the breaking of a doll or having to move house , we will have learned skills which will stand us in good stead later . |
| 18 | That is a widening of personal opportunity , a lifting of the nation 's educational attainments and a sharpening of our competitive skills which will stand us in good stead for the future . |
| 19 | If he does sport independently , he has to concentrate on maintaining control over any associated reactions which could knock him off balance as he makes a physical effort . |
| 20 | During your course you will be involved in a wide range of activities which will involve you in meetings both formal and informal . |
| 21 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
| 22 | ‘ So they are bitter about proposals which could leave them without a future . |
| 23 | Golfers , with bags of clubs over shoulders , boarded tramcars which would take them to many of the numerous golf-clubs in and around the city . |
| 24 | During these early years children form attitudes and perceptions which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will serve them in years to come . |
| 25 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 26 | Tobacco and cocaine are harmful but , again , tobacco is almost universally allowed , whereas most readers of The Economist live in countries which may imprison you for possessing cocaine . |
| 27 | There is no shortage of writing about Pollock ; like other star artists , he has an embarrassingly large number of apologists , but fortunately there are select bibliographies which can guide her to key publications . |
| 28 | The small producer will be drawn into a socialised enterprise , not by means of non-economic coercion , but chiefly by the economic advantages which will provide him with a tractor , electric light bulbs , agricultural machinery and so on . |
| 29 | I was sixteen , the year of ‘ O ’ levels , and ii was beginning to look as though I would gain a respectable number of passes which would send me on my way to art school and my chosen career as a painter . |
| 30 | The Code is drafted so that it does not impose any obligations on the parties to a takeover and their directors which would place them in conflict with their legal duties . |