Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We get scabies , and we have internal worms , and for those of us whose interests bring them close to mammals or birds , parasites can be just a part of the job . |
| 2 | Going then to the Uc Serefeli mosque , Fahreddin Acemi had the people summoned , ascended the and " exposed [ the Hurufis ' ] vain beliefs , adjudged them guilty of unbelief and heresy , and gave judgment that the killing of them was incumbent and that such as aided in the slaying of them would be greatly rewarded " . |
| 3 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 4 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
| 6 | Masters degree theses were excluded because the smaller numbers made them unsuitable for analysis . |
| 7 | Indeed , the specificity of bacteriophages made them useful in identifying particular strains of bacteria , and the procedure called ‘ phage typing ’ was used for tracing the organism responsible for the spread of an infection in a community . |
| 8 | The basic models or ‘ paradigms ’ of scientific theories seemed firm , though great scientists like James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831–79 ) formulated their versions with the instinctive caution which made them compatible with later theories based on very different models . |
| 9 | He was of the opinion that the Masai possessed ‘ a faculty for reasoned intelligence , a pride and a susceptibility to leadership and ideas which made them amenable to sympathetic handling ’ . |
| 10 | In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes . |
| 11 | They were situated in positions which made them visible from the pests on each side . |
| 12 | Neither were visible and the heavy spray made them undetectable by radar . |
| 13 | They were actuated by entirely unselfish motives and their training in trade union work made them invaluable in the most important work — picketing at the entrances to the docks " . |
| 14 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 15 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
| 16 | It is from some of these 400 that the letters come protesting innocence — and if they often ramble and are poorly expressed , that is indicative of a lack of education which made them vulnerable to manipulation in the first place . |
| 17 | However , certain types of women were ‘ selected out ’ by the redundancy process ; they tended to be disadvantaged in human capital terms , which made them vulnerable to poverty ( Callender , 1986b ) . |
| 18 | Insanitary conditions , and the concentration of people and rats in a limited area , made them vulnerable to attacks of plague , and it is noteworthy that even when the disease had ceased to be common in the country , it persisted in urban areas . |
| 19 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 20 | The birthright of the Shepherds made them immune from the laws that governed others . |
| 21 | Here we illustrated numerous dramatic conversions of warehouses and textile mills whose open-plan layouts made them adaptable for virtually any purpose . |
| 22 | The courts of law , they argued , are procedurally ill-equipped for this task since their formality , cost , speed , and complexity made them inaccessible to , or intimidating for , the ordinary citizen . |
| 23 | She told some lies about the close relations between the old malai half of the island and ours which had , she said , made them indistinguishable for all practical purposes : for example , it was not an invasion but a reunion . |
| 24 | But maybe that was what made them different from him . |
| 25 | Both campaigns struggled , I believe that this was what made them different from the rest of the fleet . |
| 26 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 27 | Far from being of a piece with classical theories , computational theories share with early modern ones the nominalism that made them oblivious of what was important in the classical tradition : namely the irreducibility of thought and universals . |
| 28 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 29 | Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past . |
| 30 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |