Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 2 | Even where he does show an interest in ‘ education ’ it is , as we have seen , only as a preventive device aimed at the public at large . |
| 3 | The man , wearing just sunglasses to disguise himself , is reaching into a plastic bag where he claims to have a gun and a grenade . |
| 4 | The Cohen Committee admitted that these complaints were not altogether unfounded but all that has resulted is section 192 of the Act which invalidates provisions in trust deeds ( or elsewhere ) which purport to exempt a trustee from , or to indemnify him against , ‘ liability for breach of trust where he fails to show the degree of care and diligence required of him as a trustee having regard to the provisions of the trust deed conferring on him any powers , authorities or discretions . ’ |
| 5 | Does he also agree that , where he has extended the competence of the institutions of the European Community , we shall increasingly see , as we have seen in relation to Sunday trading and British Aerospace , the emergence of two forms of law — first , British law , which we encourage the population to obey and honour , and , secondly , European law , which we try to avoid — and thus we shall succeed in undermining the rule of law here ? |
| 6 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 7 | The conduct of the consumer may also be relevant where he has put the product to a use for which it was not intended . |
| 8 | I know a very distinguished gentleman at Windsor who 's reaching a certain age where he wants to put the Aston Martin in his will in case there may be a family war over its inheritance . |
| 9 | Any failure to press the Bat switch while the Bat diode D9 is momentarily lit results in a low output from transistor TR4 and the ball moves on to the wicket l.e.d. where it stays to let the batsman know he has been bowled out . |
| 10 | Most important of all , the importer of goods will not have to submit these goods to duplicate series of tests and certification procedures where it wishes to import a product . |
| 11 | Although she does admire the friendship of the two men , she is doing it to please Bassanio and thus gaining love from him — which profits no one except herself . |
| 12 | cos bread goes , although she 's got a freezer and a washing machine and everything at the villa , so she 's , she sold her house in Jersey and they 're gon na do the villa up because they , they 've sold it Christmas did n't they ? |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher , although she has criticised the Delors monetary union plan for being ‘ undemocratic , ’ is determined to try to exclude consideration of a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
| 14 | letter all about it , so she 's got no excuse for not knowing |
| 15 | Her kidneys do n't work properly so she needs to use the machine to take toxins out of her blood . |
| 16 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |
| 17 | Above : once she 's got the T-shirt in position , it 's easy for Clare to slip her head through the big hole in the middle |
| 18 | Once she has digested the news that she is unable to conceive naturally , she will be offered IVF — with the caveat that the method has only around a 30% chance of success . |
| 19 | Because once she has got the disciplines in place , she it should l take less time , but at the moment she is really overburdened . |
| 20 | Who to buy it for : Sandra Bernhard ( except she 's got a copy already ) ! |
| 21 | except it 's got a tail . |
| 22 | Strapped on , the Teardrop is much more manageable although it does show a tendency towards neck heaviness . |
| 23 | ( This is obviously a better way of measuring recall than merely counting the number of words remembered , although it does have the disadvantage of being a less objective method since the actual wording used by a subject may be very different from that used in the passage . ) |
| 24 | The ‘ green bill ’ was welcome but was not sufficient , although it does mark the beginning of the end of the Government 's doctrine of deregulation , the report says . |
| 25 | At this point in the history of the evolution of mankind The Origin rejoins The German Ideology and Formen , although it continues to consider the themes of the family and the position of women in a way that had not been done before . |
| 26 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 27 | All this makes the Safrane 's handling capable and efficient , although it fails to reward the driver with tactile responses in the way that , say , an Alfa 164 does . |
| 28 | Although it has announced an intention to provide DCE-conformance with the Windows Remote Procedure Call ( RPC ) , it is not implementing all of DCE 's functionality , only the RPC . |
| 29 | The plan of the family part of the house ( Fig. 8c ) , from either point of view , remains symmetrical , although it has acquired a conservatory to one side , and a range of offices to the other . |
| 30 | Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years . |