Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text itself tells us more about the origins of Dame Sirith . |
| 2 | According to the theory of universal grammar , children start outlife with a universal grammar or language ‘ blueprint ’ in the mind which gives them some idea of the form that any language will take . |
| 3 | The killing is repeated on ritual occasions , perhaps at first because the protection the totem gives them is not enough , or because they need to band together again to re-enact the crime which binds them all together , although they use a surrogate for the crime , not the actual father again . |
| 4 | Travel — On Home Ground : The performer who makes it all white on the night |
| 5 | In every part of Europe , twenty workmen serve under a master for one that is independent ; and the wages of labour are everywhere understood to be , what they usually are , when the labourer is one person and the person who employs him another . |
| 6 | If you have n't got the telephone manual bit at the back which shows you all these facilities , then let me know and I 'll send you one . |
| 7 | The variable which interests us most is that which is concerned with the various roles played by the individual . |
| 8 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 9 | This is the nature with which I desperately attune , knowing no other , with which I painfully harmonise , fearful always of the loss of the love which keeps me that way . |
| 10 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |
| 11 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 12 | That is the problem which faces us all . |
| 13 | I think it 's the fog what gives you all chest complaints on quiet . |
| 14 | Not only is the system which appoints them both ludicrous and antiquated , but it is difficult to quantify quite what the Lords achieves . |
| 15 | The one-eyed porter whom I have known from childhood ; the station-master who ranges us all in ranks , beginning with the Duke and ending with a sad , frayed and literary man ; the little chaise in which the two old ladies from Barlton drive up to get their paper of an evening , the servant from the inn , the newsboy whose mother keeps a sweetshop — they are all my friends . |