Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the swamps around the flood plains of African rivers turn to hard sun-baked mud during the dry season , yet one fish , the lungfish , manages to live in them and survive from season to season by breathing air . |
| 2 | One major difficulty about these notions of prejudice and stereotype concerns the all too common assumption that individuals hold prejudiced views consistently and express them and act in accordance with them in a systematic and uncontradictory manner . |
| 3 | And should I need you , can I find you or get in touch with you at Rhodri Parry 's house ? ’ |
| 4 | ’ HAPPY are they that go to bed with great music ’ , wrote Sir Thomas Browne , ‘ like Pythagoras ’ . |
| 5 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 6 | As soon as the stigma is revealed and exposed , you can not be sure that some keen and inquisitive insect wo n't beat you to it and carry in pollen from heaven knows where . |
| 7 | Erm so have a go at that stuff and work through it and think about think of new words for yourself and I 've suggested that he gets a notebook to put some spelling in . |