Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delahunty 's reports from the burning stand that afternoon won him worldwide acclaim and a number of top international radio and journalistic awards . |
| 2 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 3 | Locke obviously recognized the implausibility of supposing that experience gives us these pieces of knowledge ; experience can not account for their certain applicability to all wholes , all numbers , or all promises . |
| 4 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 5 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 6 | Another monster gave me some fruit to eat . |
| 7 | This chapter gives you some guidelines to explain and help you in your work : |
| 8 | This chapter gives you some ideas for informal things to do in the Home , organised outings and activities which may also have a special therapy value , like reminiscence . |
| 9 | ‘ Removing this wing gives us two advantages , one minor , one major . |
| 10 | But the main there 'ere is , we have n't actually changed our position we have actually stated clearly that we wanted to achieve something , we wanted to make sure that what was being provided in that community was the best best thing possible within the resources available and that things developed on This amendment takes us that way forward and we are at least being clear to our principles rather than just being negatively obstructive . |
| 11 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 12 | She checks them out carefully through face-to-face interviews and obtains references , but is still surprised that so few customers ask her any questions about her sitters . |
| 13 | And maybe some people will see one way and some people see it another way . |
| 14 | Erm what you need to do if you are re- employed er you need to let the Paymaster General 's Office know , and there is a form in the this leaflet asking you various questions . |
| 15 | Mm well we wo n't see it tom we 'll keep it another week keep it another week I 'll get my diary . |
| 16 | His work in this area won him honorary membership of the London Medical Society . |
| 17 | As this approach dominates US political science , and as the US model was transplanted into Japan during the Occupation , it is , in some ways , not surprisingly the dominant perspective . |
| 18 | For this reason consider them temporary houseplants and propagate new stock each year . |
| 19 | There have been tired legs recently but this win gives us some breathing space . ’ |
| 20 | I must admit that this situation caused me some anxiety at an earlier stage , but no point was made about this in the Press either before or after the Election . |
| 21 | If you wanted a thesaurus , you had to buy another program to give you that facility . |
| 22 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 23 | The thought of this possibility gave him some pleasure , as he visualized the consternation of the Mallory household , their rude awakening to the snake in their bosom . |
| 24 | That disparity causes me great concern . |
| 25 | On the other hand , such rules give us additional information about the structure of the complex . |
| 26 | Such honesty brought him more trouble than hypocrisy would have done — with Louise Colet , for instance . |
| 27 | Such meteorites give us few clues as to the prevalence of life on other worlds ; however , members of a different class of meteorites — the carbonaceous chondritescontain organic chemicals , leading us to believe that the building blocks of life must be fairly commonplace . |
| 28 | Such findings give us some clues about the characteristics of boys and girls of these ages . |
| 29 | These differentials give us important clues about the motivation and causes of the fertility decline . |
| 30 | Oh right oh what do these people do it all week ? |