Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 2 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 4 | The first is that to know ‘ I ’ by description is to know it not as ‘ that which is aware of something ’ or which has a mental state ’ but as , in Hume 's words ' ‘ a bundle or collection of different perceptions ’ . |
| 5 | Some computers have a variation on the multiply instruction which delivers an n-bit result for operands limited in size , or which rounds a 2n-bit result to n bits . |
| 6 | definitions of words which may be new to students , or which have a specific meaning |
| 7 | How does the gospel relate to those areas with which the culture is least able to cope , or which have a dehumanising influence ? |
| 8 | We wish to make simple distinctions between sign languages ( BSL , ASL and so on ) ; sign systems , which will draw on sign language vocabulary but add features of the spoken language ( signed English ( UK ) , Signed Swedish , Seeing Exact English ) , or which have a manufactured vocabulary ( Paget-Gorman Sign System ) ; fingerspelling ; sign vocabularies , which reflect the meaning of sign languages and spoken languages without necessarily adopting inflections from either ( Makaton , Cued Speech ) ; and Total Communication which involves a mixture of one or more of these with spoken language . |
| 9 | Then , if the target A&R person does come , there is a better chance of him or her making a fair analysis of the artist without being caught up in A&R peer pressure . |
| 10 | And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk . |
| 11 | If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby . |
| 12 | If that 's your reason , or you want a fresh plan , |
| 13 | This does not mean that the interviewer becomes a cold clinical robot , but it does mean that he or she uses a particular instrument in the way that it is designed to be used — for objective study . |
| 14 | An individual 's attitude to the question of the political context in which the legal system operates will depend on whether he or she takes a supportive attitude to the political status quo or wishes to challenge it . |
| 15 | Now Potts J. has illuminated the way for the definitive judgment of Phillips J. As they have shown , the plaintiffs claim that each was injured when at birth he or she became a legal person damaged by the prior act of the respective defendants , and that when each such act was done it was reasonably foreseeable that it might result in the plaintiff being born damaged . |
| 16 | If a manager joins a sales team from another department where he or she enjoyed a good reputation , this v–ill go before them and influence the attitude of the team . |
| 17 | Before the provision contained in rule 3(7) was enacted , the law governing standing to apply for prerogative orders was , in simplified terms , as follows : a person could apply for certiorari or prohibition provided he or she had a genuine grievance or , in other words , provided the applicant was a person aggrieved by the challenged decision . |
| 18 | His Offensive Weapons ( Scotland ) Bill would put the onus on the person carrying a knife to prove he or she had a valid reason for doing so . |
| 19 | As such he or she establishes a close working relationship with the chief executive officer . |
| 20 | Your plugger should contact all the DJs with whom he or she has a good relationship , trying to persuade them to play your record . |
| 21 | The second must be that he or she has a long life . |
| 22 | If the researcher is interested in discussions of government finance in the Treasury , he or she has a potential problem of informational over-kill . |
| 23 | Dealings with clients ' money — a solicitor must keep a careful and separate account of any money of yours that he handles and must account to you for deposit interest if he or she holds a significant amount of your money for a significant length of time . |
| 24 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 25 | This would be ideal for any doctor who wished to be a clinical tutor , or who had a special interest in education . |
| 26 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 27 | Zuwaya enthusiasts of the revolution did sometimes speak of the injustice of unequal distribution of wealth , but like those who attended the Intellectual Seminar in 1970 , they had difficulty in identifying any particular groups of Libyans who suffered as a group , or who had a common interest in pursuing distributive justice : in Benghazi they said , there were Libyan workers who were oppressed , or perhaps Tripoli . |
| 28 | People with schizophrenia who are discharged from hospital to live with relatives who are over-critical , disapproving or who express a high level of anxiety and tension , are more likely to suffer early relapse than those returning to a neutral or tolerant atmosphere , and spending less time in daily contact with other members of the family , possibly by attending a day centre or going to work , seems to help some sufferers to cope with an emotionally charged home environment . |
| 29 | You may have seen a film , but wish to talk about who did the cinematography or who played a particular character . |
| 30 | Fighting , he says , is ‘ the real , highest , honestest business of every son of man ’ and he advises ‘ those young persons whose stomachs are not strong , or who think a good set-to with the weapons which God has given to us all , an uncivilized , unchristian , or ungentlemanly affair , just skip this chapter at once , for it wo n't be to their taste ’ . |