Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This schematic way of thinking channels us into an obscurantist cul-de-sac instead of regenerating our culture . |
| 32 | Ms Leaming tells it all with vim , though the gossip turns her on far more than the movies : ‘ Aly practised an Eastern art of love known as Imsak , which allowed him to exercise indefinite control … ’ |
| 33 | This call from the black side equips us with a challenge to put to the whites . |
| 34 | In summary , the sociological perspective outlined earlier in this chapter orientates us towards examining the social construction of ideas about child abuse . |
| 35 | Radon occurs naturally in rocks such as granite , and can move readily through porous rock and soil and can seep into buildings causing dangerous concentrations to accumulate ( inhaling radon causes it to be deposited in the lungs so increasing the risks of lung cancer ) . |
| 36 | ‘ The Number One DJ wants you on his show . ’ |
| 37 | Lungfish joins me under the blanket . |
| 38 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 39 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
| 40 | Some scientific ‘ wets ’ will not want to soil their hands with ‘ blood money ’ ; but in these days of financial stringency , every professor owes it to his department to get in there and pitch for Pentagon pennies . |
| 41 | ‘ Though I know the Princesse loves you as if you were her own child . |
| 42 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 43 | And David says it for all of us , I was born in sin and shapen in inequity . |
| 44 | The new rule allows them to either reduce it or to make no charge . |
| 45 | In ( 14 ) her mother uses Creole ( and this is very clearly intended to be a direct quote , even a send-up , of her mother 's refusal ) , while Valerie answers her in London English . |
| 46 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 47 | And the partnership 's life is a short as a task completed or as long as a connected , improving spiral of programme sustains it through renewal . |
| 48 | Concentration allows you to " switch off " your hearing so that , although the noise gives signals to the brain , it is not recognised as relevant to the purpose in hand , and does not register in the consciousness . |
| 49 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 50 | Fanshawe uses his as drum machine , confessor weight-training apparatus . |
| 51 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 52 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 53 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 54 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 55 | Andy shows me to my room , a floor down , at about four in the morning . |
| 56 | Therefore it is suggested that for the husband whose outrage forecloses the possibility of a mere divorce proceeding , a clear case exists for having the courts carve out an exception to the three-year rule so as to allow a suit to be brought for nullity through fraud or mistake.56 To the protesting reader who may feel that this spurious reasoning leads us into the realm of nonsense , the only answer is that it is the purpose of this paper to provoke a re-examination of certain fundamental values and ideas . |
| 57 | Erm , people do erm have kids and then kids links them with the what they were talking about before , the genetic engineering because now what they start talking about , two things kind of come together , the two themes and then they start talking about ? |
| 58 | Scott sees her as Manchester 's star turn . |
| 59 | ‘ Captain Meredith orders him to be cleansed . |
| 60 | Two versions of the tune appear in the collections of Captain Francis O'Neill of the Chicago Police , a contemporary of Honeyman , and Alastair Hardie includes it in his Caledonian Companion , where he acknowledges its publication in Kohler 's Violin Repository of 1885 . |