Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 2 | Does it help me to make sense of the atmosphere in my school , or my own feelings ? |
| 3 | Without any consideration for my talents — such as they were — or my own wishes — never expressed — he had decided my path . |
| 4 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 5 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 6 | The head needs to encourage staff to scrounge for good management , display and communications ideas from schools where they have previously worked , schools where their own children attend , industry , supermarkets , courses , magazines and even books . |
| 7 | For working-class women , especially the many who lived still in conditions of severe poverty where their own wages were essential to the household , a decision to share a household with an elderly person simply could not mean full-time unpaid caring . |
| 8 | Dana had a blind spot where her own interests lay . |
| 9 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 10 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 11 | He ignored her , lifting her with his strong arms on to the bed , his hands still on her thighs and dangerously moving inwards where her own fires burned unchecked , waiting to be extinguished . |
| 12 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 13 | Professionals and businesses that stand in fiduciary relationships with their customers have always had to cope with the problems that arise when they owe conflicting duties to different clients , or their own interests conflict with those of a client . |
| 14 | I make a plea for the Government to consider a matter of urgency , either through independent research or their own officers , finding a long-term method of achieving a much more comprehensible system that is easy to use and that can be understood by ordinary people . |
| 15 | Hollywood 's fictional mode seemed worthless to the lovers of the other arts although they were rarely honest about either the problems facing film-makers or their own responses to the diversified output of the studios . |
| 16 | Married couples may live close to one or other set of parents or their own children and their spouses . |
| 17 | But in which he says that he 's talking about himself ‘ That so many good and learned men among the neighbouring nations who read my works may not be induced by this fellow 's calumnies to alter the favourable opinion they have formed of me , followed by the assertion that the people of England whom fate , or duty , or their own virtues have incited me to defend may be convinced from the purity and integrity of my life that my defence , if it do not redown to their honour , can never be considered as their disgrace . ’ |
| 18 | Italy is not far behind with companies that range from Fiat to the rapidly-growing fashion giant Benetton making use of women working in sweatshops or their own homes . |
| 19 | So if the teacher wanted to find out about the courses they could either contact the University or their own organisations , erm the D E S or the , the Local Education Authority . |
| 20 | There will be a good choice of varieties , as each dealer has his or her own favourites aside from the usual Kohaku/Sanke/ogon mix . |
| 21 | In some cases , however , the symptoms are a vital element in the way the patient deals with the world and with his or her own conflicts about life and relationships . |
| 22 | Juliet told her mother briefly of what Miss Rose had told them , but said very little about the visit to Kate Maybury , or her own suspicions of her . |
| 23 | This has important implications for patient preference as such studies should provide a basis for each person to assign his or her own values to different levels of risk and benefit . |
| 24 | The adolescent uses the peer group to evaluate the perspectives of others , while developing his or her own values and attitudes . |
| 25 | Each of us has his or her own turn-ons and hang-ups , any of which may be " deviant " from the point of view of some others . |
| 26 | Having the insight and ability to share his or her own experiences , thoughts and feelings in a professional and personal manner that gives empathy and hope . |
| 27 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 28 | In terms of function , it supports an end-user forms creation function , under which the user can create his or her own forms using cut and paste and sample forms . |
| 29 | Arguably , too , the listener to recorded music is in a position to take a more active part in the music , by deciding how and when to listen by being able to ‘ edit ’ recordings to make up his or her own programmes on cassette tape . |
| 30 | The first of these lines of research led to the development of so-called creativity tests in which the subject has a free hand to generate his or her own responses to a given problem . |