Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eyes have it with new sight cure |
| 32 | This is a statement of law as it should be , rather than as it is , but there is nothing to stop the courts developing it in this direction . |
| 33 | However , it will take several hundred pounds in vet bills to restore him to good health . |
| 34 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 35 | Each of these companies provided us with detailed information of their purchases , which provided the basis for our estimate of ‘ indirect ’ employment described in Section 3 . |
| 36 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 37 | In my case , my parents used it with devastating overkill . |
| 38 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 39 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 40 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 41 | As he put the glass to his lips to wash out the thought , his eye caught the soldierly portraits all around , the Divisional insignia above the mantelpiece , the roll of battle honours flanking them on each side , and he had a sudden vision of the mess walls decorated not with these trumpery monuments to man 's stupidity but with the torn and mangled limbs of countless unfortunates and , in the place of honour , Corporal Byford 's shattered , still bleeding leg . |
| 42 | Goering and Ribbentrop keep bodyguards to protect them from each other . |
| 43 | Searelle invited artistes to contact him by first writing to John , who thus became responsible for their standards . |
| 44 | Nails watched it with horrified fascination , and saw it start to slide towards him . |
| 45 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 46 | Thirty vouchers entitle you to half-price travel for a car and five people across the Irish Sea or the English Channel . |
| 47 | Impatience with her own see-saw emotions robbed her of any desire for sleep . |
| 48 | Meetings , all companies have them in some way one human being companies . |
| 49 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 50 | The grounding Mr Morrison received at James Dowling 's feet stood him in good stead . |
| 51 | Their Citizen 's Charter spokesman Brian Wilson said : ‘ Ofwat 's failure to deal firmly with the greed of the privatised water companies leaves them with little credibility when alleging a need for huge further increases . |
| 52 | Looking at the long sweep of the historical past , Temple had seen that ‘ Historical analogies lead us to one conclusion only ’ — that subject races invariably at some point regain their liberty . |
| 53 | Both the men in expensive suits meet me on big-suited territory . |
| 54 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 55 | David was therefore offered inpatient care for up to 10 days to provide him with intensive support . |
| 56 | Maureen Ruchardson , who made a similar appearance in the B is for Book exhibition at the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead , continues to cook and beat the fibres of local plants to provide us with hand-made paper . |
| 57 | The apes provide us with much information concerning possible roots of sociable behaviour in man . |
| 58 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 59 | The deal means the French bank will get some of the money it is owed , Madagascar will get debt relief and the Missouri garden will be able to increase its efforts to conserve rare plants , which include training botanists and collecting plants to screen them for medicinal value . |
| 60 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |