Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Preferences bring us to Regan who is rightfully critical of the counter-intuitive implications of Frey 's blanket denials of beliefs , desires , perceptions , emotions , and so on to animals and is at great pains to stress their similarities of behaviour to that of human beings . |
2 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
3 | In addition , local boroughs and health authorities fund us through grants and service contracts . |
4 | Wishes provide us with motivation and strategy , for without the greed of a wish we would never get started . |
5 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |
6 | Musicians knock 'em for six |
7 | Indeed , the researchers expect it to be another 10 years before devices using the technology can come to market . |
8 | If superiors involve them in decision-making , they are more likely to be management-minded . |
9 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
10 | Experts say plenty of would be Dirty Dens are the explanation . |
11 | Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere . |
12 | Aelian reports that ‘ the Brahmins honour them above all other birds . |
13 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
14 | All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art . |
15 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
16 | James argued here that abstract rules provide us with only limited assistance in arriving at moral decisions because ‘ every real dilemma is in literal strictness a unique situation ’ . |
17 | The first two hours knock us into shape , however , as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri . |
18 | Chauffeurs peel themselves off the walls , put down their fifth or sixth freebie rock'n'roll drink , and take us all in convoy to a club somewhere in Kansas City . |
19 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
20 | As far as the make-up of the commission is concerned , the Russians want it to be composed of professionals and specialists , while the Germans believe that it should above all have a strong political element ’ . |
21 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
22 | Adopted as their National Anthem , and the words mean something like , Let Him in Whose Veins Flows the Blood of the Netherlands Remains Free from a Foreigners Strain . |
23 | However , as John Springhall has recently argued , there is little evidence that teenagers suffer anything like an ‘ identity crisis ’ during their adolescent years . |
24 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
25 | Island craftsmen make everything from leather goods and raffia to local pottery and beautiful hand-made jewellery using the famous Majorcan pearls . |
26 | She opened it , and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it . |
27 | waves push me to the side |
28 | The language of the marketing echoes exactly that of any supermarket brand-name : ‘ our readers perceive us as a brand of books with a special flavour and image ’ . |
29 | Indeed , as we saw in Chapter 3 , sections 17 and 18 of the Sale of Goods Act expressly recognise that property passes to the buyer at the time the parties intend it to . |
30 | Section 17 says that property in specific goods passes to the buyer at such time as the parties intend it to be transferred . |