Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 2 | This provided us with fantastic entertainment , and more seriously , a talking point about respecting peoples views — particularly within our church communities . |
| 3 | Finally , this leads me into green disciplining . |
| 4 | This brought them into hostile contact with some of their neighbours , especially with the counts of Armagnac . |
| 5 | They were also in the business of wiring installations for consumers ( in houses , factories , schools , offices , shops ) beyond the mains terminals , and this brought them into direct competition with the 7500 , usually small , independent electrical contractors . |
| 6 | This brought us to female suffrage and , indirectly , to dictatorships . |
| 7 | The federal civil service is the only part of Canadian society which remotely approaches the bilingual and bicultural ideal : this isolates it from real life in Canada and gives it the tendency , like the Prussian army , to believe that it is the sole repository of national values . |
| 8 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 9 | The regional team of officers began from the basepoint of the Mezey Report , but this left them with considerable policy problems to solve since the zone hospital concept was supported neither by the constituent health authorities of the region ( the AHAs and the DMTs ) , nor by the community health councils . |
| 10 | What is all this telling us about real evolution ? |
| 11 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 12 | And this stood him in good stead when he moved to the Darlington area . |
| 13 | It is Jim 's book-nourished imagination , in fact , that betrays him into unheroic behaviour . |
| 14 | It can be argued that Reich 's work has much to tell us about contemporary politics . |
| 15 | All that leads me to British Rail Bills , and the fact that only now are we talking about ditching the procedures of 150 years ago . |
| 16 | These stood her in good stead as a borough councillor and labour organizer , but proved to be much less effective in national politics . |
| 17 | That takes us to Joint Planning and the part of the voluntary organisations play or should play in the process . |
| 18 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |
| 19 | They all took it for white wine and discovered their mistake . |
| 20 | All serve it with total dedication and complete artistry . |
| 21 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 22 | The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police might care to ponder why it is that juries increasingly dismiss the sworn evidence of his officers in favour of those accusing them of gross impropriety . |
| 23 | That kept me on reduced activity for about three weeks . |
| 24 | That left him with severe deafness . |
| 25 | As well as sharing Chris Brokaw — Come 's guitarist and Codeine 's drummer until recently when the umbilical chord was reluctantly severed — both envelop you in bleak vulnerability , put you under mild anaesthetic . |