Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 2 | Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines . |
| 3 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 4 | These reflections lead us to an alternative view of pressure group power in Britain : that the strongest weapons are forms of direct action and not the manipulation of electoral choice . |
| 5 | If our ideological preconceptions incline us to an exclusive interest in standard English , we will produce what is in effect a history of literary English ; this will exclude and neglect other historical patterns that are capable of enriching our description of the history of spoken English and , ultimately , of adding to our understanding of the general phenomenon of linguistic change . |
| 6 | ‘ What will people think when those children ask her for an improper story ! ’ |
| 7 | Marxists argue that it derives from the needs of the capitalist mode of production , while elite theorists see it as an institutional-bureaucratic coincidence of interest . |
| 8 | Whilst some welcome the opportunity of early retirement , others see it as an unwanted imposition on their lives . |
| 9 | Many consumers are against it : about three out of ten say it 's never a good thing , and most others see it as an occasional necessity rather than as having positive advantages ( see Appendix I , Main survey ) . |
| 10 | Photographs show it as an expanding , immensely complex gas-cloud , and in its centre there is a pulsar , one of the few to have been identified optically . |
| 11 | Four months later the Tories see it as an unqualified success , propelling the man who presided over it , Mr Michael Howard , into the political big league . |