Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is really a matter of personal preference and the sort of facilities available in your building ( or area because , of course , nearby gas can be piped in at some cost , or use gas from cylinders if you really prefer gas ) .
2 The basic questions posed are : First , can children attach themselves to psychological parents whilst they also maintain contact or links with a non-custodial birth parent or other relative ? and second , would the maintenance of such links confuse the child and impair his developing personal and social identity ?
3 This is particularly important in women who have periods as they often lack energy and feel tired
4 Ten of these are the successors to the regional water authorities and they also provide sewerage services .
5 It is to the credit of such workers that they rarely feel animosity towards a member of the Royal Family who puts on a designer frock , gets into a chauffeur-driven car , spends a couple of hours meeting the afflicted and , as a result , has her picture on the front page of most national newspapers with the word caring prefacing every mention of her name .
6 You need merchandise ideas but you only want quality .
7 I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " .
8 We have advised environmental health officers that they already have power under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 temporarily to remove equipment such as audio equipment to ensure that a noise abatement notice is complied with .
9 It is not individual qualities that we ever have occasion to predicate .
10 We just wreck buildings or We just start fires or We just scar highways or We just spread trash .
11 Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week .
12 New parties partly reflect the breakdown of old loyalties but they also encourage volatility by offering a wider range of choice
13 I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account .
14 The latter type , the singles groups , are sometimes very successful at fostering friendships because they deliberately restrict membership to a certain category of people — for example , young professionals , graduates , or over-40s .
15 ‘ However , I believe it is one of the few jobs where you actually get recognition for what you do .
16 He insisted , to Labour jeers : ‘ With the scope for efficiency savings , which there always is , there is no need for cuts in services and jobs that we always get scare stories about every year . ’
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