Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 2 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 3 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 4 | Just when the hero really needs the girl 's help , she stands revealed as a killer with a long history of leading enslaved men to destruction , a siren wrapped in furs and degeneracy , venom in her veins , murder in her mind … |
| 5 | Following the welcome change in Kenya 's constitution towards a multi-party democracy , and in view of the unhappy news from Kenya yesterday of the repression of demonstrations in Nairobi , will the Minister not only advise that country on the international standards of multi-party democracy , which she has ennunciated from the Dispatch Box before , but suggest that , in order to disarm such demonstrations , it is time that the Government start a dialogue with the Opposition on both the timing and ground rules for an election ? |
| 6 | She has written to the Attorney General protesting that the courts have been too lenient on Dr Courtney and she has tabled a Parliamentary Question to Sir Nicholas designed to force a judicial review of the sentence . |
| 7 | She has written on the relationship between jewellery and clothes in Jewellery ( 1984 ) and her most recent publication Ancestral Jewels ( André Deutsch , 1989 ) records historical pieces which are still in private hands . |
| 8 | Then she sees Trotter 's purse lying open with the money she has cashed from the county welfare . |
| 9 | If she has ventured beyond the car it can mean only one thing — it 's stopped raining ! |
| 10 | Mrs Browning , who looks weak and I believe has hardly moved from her room all winter , though she has ventured on a carriage trip or two since spring arrived , is excited by the promise Cavour has made to bring some statesmanship into this affair and hopes much from him . |
| 11 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 12 | Unless she sees a local advertisement , she will have little knowledge of job opportunity and if she has moved into the district from elsewhere , she may have difficulty in assessing the employment prospects . |
| 13 | ‘ She has lived with the shame and humiliation all these years . |
| 14 | Assuming she has lived in the house for her whole period of ownership and has never nominated elsewhere as main residence there is no question of a CGT liability when she sells . |
| 15 | And I would not for the world meddle with her plans , though I am proud that she has consented on the way to visit me for a while . |
| 16 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 17 | The type of household in which the elderly person lives may , in its turn , be a function of the stage he or she has reached in the life course rather than of age per se . |
| 18 | Ms Robinson 's first placement during teacher training was at Aclet Close School in Bishop Auckland and besides Teesdale , she has taught in the nursery class at Firthmoor , Darlington , and has run playgroups at Staindrop and Gainford . |
| 19 | When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function . |
| 20 | She has applied to the Barbican and Wembley Conference Centre in the hopes of obtaining work experience in her chosen career before starting the course of training . |
| 21 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 22 | Mr Perren tells me : ‘ By happy coincidence , on the very same day Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was in Bath on a film set too — the Merchant Ivory movie of The Remains Of The Day which she has scripted from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel . ’ |
| 23 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 24 | An older person who has been accustomed to being in charge does n't suddenly stop feeling responsible for other people just because he or she has gone into a Home . |
| 25 | In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike . |
| 26 | ‘ She has gone across the canal to face the beast . ’ |
| 27 | She has recently left home , and whenever they talk about her my parents ' voices are disapproving , as if she has gone off the rails in some way which they do n't specify . |
| 28 | Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits . |
| 29 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 30 | It is said on the river that a Thames barge , once she has risen with the tide , never sinks completely . |