Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
| 2 | In large organizations it has become common practice for audit committees , consisting of representatives of senior management , the internal audit department and external auditors , to meet . |
| 3 | Yeah well then this has got all glass domes it 's got little patterns and they 're three d and coming out ! |
| 4 | He is unable to concentrate on forms and reports because the words he reads undergo illicit manipulations that , like the pun , involve slippage and linguistic re-synthesis : |
| 5 | It does not follow from this that the beneficiary himself can not sue , for if he holds the chattels he seems to have joint possession with the trustee . |
| 6 | In many respects it fails to answer these issues satisfactorily , although allowing the court to order medical examinations without parental consent legitimizes a position well established on an informal basis amongst the professionals involved . |
| 7 | To understand the classicists it helps to have some understanding of what they were reacting against . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's always the same person of course , although over the years she has had different names and come in various shapes and sizes . |
| 9 | An elderly lady , a writer of crime-stories , was featured ; for years she has taken regular night walks , striding out for miles through the city of London , observant of everything around her . |
| 10 | ‘ For two years she has carried this burden . |
| 11 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |
| 12 | This point comes out most explicitly in Le Roy Ladurie 's work on Languedoc , where the explanations he offers have two kinds of appeal . |
| 13 | In the past two weeks he has made four trips abroad , including the current North America tour . |
| 14 | In eight innings in his new role as opener in the last few weeks he has totalled 451 runs . |
| 15 | Yet in other sonnets it does have those connotations of exclusion and separation . |
| 16 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 17 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 18 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 19 | In recent years it has paid particular attention to M0 , M4 and M5 . |
| 20 | Among other things he plans to spend more time gardening at his home in Bookham , Surrey , where he lives with his wife Alison and two teenage daughters . |
| 21 | Yeah , our ones ' actually got something on , especially one of the machines it 's got little spots across the screen saying do not . |
| 22 | Seles , who has reached the final in 13 of 14 tournaments she has played this year , now faces the winner of the match between America 's Mary Joe Fernandez and Jana Novotna of Czechoslovakia . |
| 23 | When talking about marking off the stretchers he seems to place more importance on the length of the tenon than the distance between the shoulders . |
| 24 | In practical terms it means taking that course of action which most reliably will avoid the possibility of criticism by their superiors . |
| 25 | In 10 games he has scored 136 points , the most in the land by some way . |
| 26 | Nolan lists some diseases he seems to have more success with than others : arthritis , migraine , bad backs , depression , ME . |
| 27 | By passing on his skills he has given other youngsters the incentive to go on to achieve greater things . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proposals he has to improve marine safety , particularly so far as fishing boat losses are concerned . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals he has to enable local education authorities to improve the fabric of school buildings . |
| 30 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |