Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or for guessing what this pair do for a living . |
| 2 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |
| 3 | People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs . |
| 4 | Because of the élitism which such an organization of control wields , it is not surprising there is difficulty in incorporating the outside researcher , or in accepting his critical findings . |
| 5 | Our results demonstrate that the clusters of basic amino acids are more important than the zinc fingers for the interactions of NC protein with DNA in vitro , although a role for the zinc fingers in specificity of interaction or in facilitating its many functions can not be excluded . |
| 6 | The physical and organizational settings in which children 's learning took place were to be all-important , and the combination of PNP resourcing , advisory effort and enhanced school staffing were all to be directed to their improvement , or to establishing what advisory staff termed ‘ the quality learning environment ’ . |
| 7 | She had no real objection to the change of roles or to chaperoning her own servant — to her it would be another adventure . |
| 8 | A number of programs followed rapidly in PageMaker 's footprints but none of those launched for the Macintosh has ever come close to either challenging PageMaker 's lead or to matching its intuitive user interface . |
| 9 | As we are discussing groundstroke skills , I think it is important to stress that at the beginning , according to the shape of shot that you have — whether it be topspin , slice or flat — you can insist on slice only , topspin only , or on hitting your favoured shot . |
| 10 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 11 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 12 | The accessory indirect flight-muscles are the pleurosternals , tergopleurals and lateral intersegmentals ; they act by bracing the cuticular skeleton or by changing its elastic properties in various ways . |
| 13 | First they determine whether an individual is better likely to conform to reason by following an authority or by following his own judgment independently of any authority . |
| 14 | Such confusions may draw , too , on Eliot 's fears about the barrenness of his own life and about losing his own creativity . |
| 15 | Before giving his information on the Czech team 's tactics , he hedges twice ( I realize it 's none of my business ' and " … you may think I " m an absolute ass , but … " ) , apologising in advance for giving them potentially faulty advice and for threatening their negative face , while at the same time criticising ( in Leechian terms , " maximising the dispraise of " ) himself for doing so ( p. 59 ) . |
| 16 | The course is based on the principles of self-help , hence clients are reminded that they have responsibility for their own problems and for changing their own behaviour . |
| 17 | ‘ We are intending to expand our share both under the Harrison 's brand and through developing our own label business ’ . |
| 18 | Frankie 's wrath knew no bounds and after sub-jecting his weeping mother to a tirade of the most vile obscenities he was thrown out of the office by a disgusted recruiting sergeant . |
| 19 | Jean-Paul at first resisted ; eventually , when Edouard pressed him , and after changing their proposed schedule three times , he agreed to a week in the autumn of 1950 , when he would be on leave . |
| 20 | We each have our own highly individual ways of reacting to the stresses of life and of maintaining our inner harmony . |
| 21 | With the grief , however , there was the joy of discovering mother love — and of rediscovering my own mother 's love for me . |
| 22 | by no means the ignorant slut often portrayed , she was on the contrary a capable organizer , well able to discuss music intelligently with her husband and of managing their financial affairs — even the disgruntled Leopold was forced to admit that the household management showed every sign of prudence . |
| 23 | Seconds later , white fangs glistening with saliva at the prospect of yet another easy kill and of having their lean bellies filled with delicious human flesh , the Hellhounds were hot on the trail of their unsuspecting prey … |
| 24 | If this happens , the student may not form the habit of checking the situation after every turn and of making his own decision about when to turn back . |
| 25 | HCO 3 - secretion by the stomach , duodenum , and pancreatic and bile ducts is an important means of neutralising gastric acid and of limiting its damaging effects on the mucosa . |
| 26 | Since the early 1960s , the BBC has therefore aimed to reach a 50% share of the total audience as a means of supporting its claim to the licence fee and of ensuring its continued survival . |
| 27 | The notion of speech acts was introduced by the Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin , who pointed out that in uttering this or that well-formed sentence a speaker is doing something over and above expressing its literal meaning . |
| 28 | And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind ; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with , or is antagonistic to , the whole interest of the State , they will have done the greatest harm they can do . |
| 29 | Talk is of enormous relevance in understanding status and in developing your own powers of influence . |
| 30 | Messrs Deakins and Hussain have certainly provided an unusual and , in many ways , provocative survey on the attitudes taken by banks towards small business customers , and in drawing their main conclusions , concentrate on the most important factors relating to risk analysis . |