Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 2 | The taxation needs , it 's not just V A T it varies in the European Community , it where it varies in a wider Europe and the world at a whole . |
| 3 | Major Malcolm Wallace , the British Olympic equestrian team manager , said last night : ‘ I 'm sure she will do everything in her power to keep equestrianism where it belongs as a strong and integral part of the Olympic movement . ’ |
| 4 | Looking to the future , this conflict should cease to arise ; race-awareness training is now integrated into basic training , where it sits as a natural part of discussions on impartiality and prejudice during the interviewing process and should have the benefits that CAB anti-racist policy intends . |
| 5 | The provisions of the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act make the following statutory requirements of case managers : ‘ Where it appears to a local authority that any person for whom they may provide or arrange for the provision of community care services may be in need of any such services , the authority ( a ) shall carry out an assessment of his needs for those services and ( b ) having regard to the results of that assessment , shall then decide whether his needs call for the provision by them of any such services . ’ |
| 6 | Pr85 env , the initial translation product of the env gene forms oligomers , undergoes glycosylation and is proteolytically cleaved during its transport through the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus to the cell surface where it appears as a small transmembrane C-terminal domain p15(E) TM , linked noncovalently or by a disulphide bridge to a larger extracellular domain gp70 SU ( ref 25 ) . |
| 7 | Liathach , like its neighbour , is best seen from a distance , a popular viewpoint being the private road to Coulin Lodge , where it towers as a great wedge across the waters of Loch Clair , after a short stroll from the pass road . |
| 8 | Her parents are dead , so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children . |
| 9 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 10 | A purpose which is for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons ( other than a State institution ) is not charitable , although it results in an indirect benefit to the community . |
| 11 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 12 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact . |
| 13 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 14 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 15 | Johns ( 1991 : 10–11 ) makes similar claims with respect to topic-prominent vs. subject-prominent languages : ‘ in a topic-prominent language linear arrangement follows the scale of CD far more closely than it does in a subject-prominent language ’ . |
| 16 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 17 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 18 | As God progressively overcomes the evil in the world , so he grows into a perfect , complex being , an unfolding of God 's real essence charted in successive transformations of human cultures . |
| 19 | Paper blocks the drains , so it goes into a little box . |
| 20 | Albacete is placed 14 out of 20 in the spanish league with a 1–5-2 ( w-d-l ) record ; so it looks like a hard team to beat — i guess they hope for Frank to deliver the stuff he did not get the chance to do at Leeds . |
| 21 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |
| 22 | Immediately afterwards the colour begins to return and , as it is used , the mark of the pen progressively becomes richer so it draws in a graduated fashion . |
| 23 | ‘ If she operates as a separate entity I have no doubt her charm , beauty and popularity will mean her charity work will continue . |
| 24 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
| 25 | Ordinary soldiers , who had enlisted with equal patriotic fervour , took comfort in simple but pungent humour , typified by Bruce Barinsfather 's cartoon showing ‘ Old Bill ’ , a war veteran , taking refuge in a shell hole and remarking to a young recruit , ‘ Well , if you knows of a better ‘ ole , go to it . ’ |
| 26 | He 's been granted bail , provided he lives at a secret address . |
| 27 | Then thrust your kicking foot until it travels in a straight line . |
| 28 | Gain and climb the distinct crack above , awkward to start , until it eases beneath a small overhang . |
| 29 | He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees . |
| 30 | It 's more likely to throw everyone off course if it happens in a little room with a small audience . |