Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three words she adores most are ‘ Clinique Bonus Time ’ . |
| 2 | Fortunately I have never had this problem either with ferrets or dogs but should it ever hit my animals it means more than just the loss of the ferrets . |
| 3 | Suffice it to say that in any extended study of the martial arts it warrants closer examination . |
| 4 | And a prosthetist said : ‘ You have a great understanding of their problems because no matter how good a prosthetist is , if he 's got two legs he falls short of really knowing what it 's like . ’ |
| 5 | Further , since we see his victims through his eyes it becomes harder to keep our own perspective , and judgement , clear . |
| 6 | With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time . |
| 7 | However , USL finds the royalties it pays third parties for using their technology , particularly those sent to Microsoft Corp for its Xenix functionality and Sun Microsystems Inc for its BSD functionality , on the increase and likely to rise further . |
| 8 | If Mr Powell 's intention to become ‘ the education director ’ sets him slightly apart from the more flamboyant Mr Brown , in other respects he appears ready to follow his predecessor 's load . |
| 9 | He may be right — he seems like a zombie when he 's on them , but then about a month after he stops having the regular injections he gets happier for a while , then gradually all the funny ideas begin again . |
| 10 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 11 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 12 | he has problems with the e-marker , and needs , especially , to hear many of the words he misspells pronounced clearly while he is looking at them , and to have pointed out to him the parts of the word that correspond to the various sounds . |
| 13 | In other words it sleeps six erm and the landlady 's willing to have one person sleeping on the floor officially . |
| 14 | He should refrain from making comments on subjects he knows little about . ’ |
| 15 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 16 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |
| 17 | His almost pathological dread of producing a legato line means that instead of drawing us a picture of clear , flowing melodies he leaves little join-up-the-dots type sketches with the notes separated from each other by wide open spaces which even the generous resonance of St Peter 's , Waltrop ( near Dortmund ) can not adequately fill . |
| 18 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 19 | In a singing community of his peers he comes alive and discovers a sense of membership which is denied him elsewhere : all the more reason to embrace the slightly devilish and glamorous identity which is thrown at you by ‘ them ’ and sing along , ‘ We are the famous football hooligans ! ’ |
| 20 | Eddie Stride in one of his books he makes this statement , he says , my jealousy , your envy , someone else 's pride , needs the pardon bought with the blood of Christ at Calvary , as much as someone else 's promiscuity , or perversion . |
| 21 | To purely optical sensations he adds tactile sensations . ’ |
| 22 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 23 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 24 | These were the natural democrats whom Wordsworth idealized in memory ; in his Guide to the Lakes he says that |
| 25 | Areas she wants protected include the Great Orme and the Traeth Lavan special protection area . |
| 26 | The policy with respect to pay is to be about 7 percent above the national norm ( as IBM determines the norm among companies it considers comparable ) . ’ |
| 27 | But they have made it perfectly clear that the council is prepared to fight for compensation if the companies it holds responsible do not pay up . |
| 28 | With regard to the second and third limbs it seems clear that the statute requires not only the exclusion ( or virtual exclusion ) of the donor from the enjoyment of the gifted property ( second limb ) but also the exclusion ( or , presumably , the virtual exclusion ) of the donor from any benefit to him by contract or otherwise ( Oakes v Commissioners of Stamp Duties [ 1954 ] AC 57 ) . |
| 29 | In non-competition trials the central target disappears at this point ; in competition trials it remains visible . |
| 30 | Reading between the lines it becomes clear that it is the address which was recorded , in a studio re-creation to cash in on the President 's assassination . |