Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupitres were adapted from these structures , although it is still uncertain who first employed them commercially for remuage . |
| 2 | In 1983 a questionnaire given out by the Tourist Office asked visitors what pleased them most about Madeira : 35.7 per cent of those questioned said the natural beauty of the island , 13.6 per cent the friendliness of the residents , 12.4 per cent the climate , 8.4 per cent good hotels and 7.8 per cent the flowers . |
| 3 | Asked what concerned them most in connection with nuclear power , respondents named the possibility of accidents , human error and the storage of radioactive waste . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Schopenhauerian aspects of his theory contradicted his own earlier doctrines without in fact bringing them properly into line with Schopenhauer 's aesthetic itself . |
| 5 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 6 | This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects . |
| 7 | Charlton 's win keeps them right in contention . |
| 8 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 9 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 10 | It is about helping them to recognise the resources that they have to offer one another and to use them effectively in response to individual interests and learning needs . |
| 11 | May I add to those representations the ones that have been made to me locally by committees responsible for organising the summer common riding festivals in the central Borders and Scotland ? |
| 12 | Unit values of powder detergents are low and the products are fairly bulky so it is difficult to pack them economically in containers that are suitable for the food environment . |
| 13 | Lower them slowly to shoulder height . |
| 14 | When asked what frightens me most about London , I say , it is not the pinwheeled eyes of junkies on the street . |
| 15 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 16 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 17 | And one of the things which always disturbs me most about Russell is his emphasis upon pity , what moves him so is the emotion of pity for other people . |
| 18 | I think what impressed me most about Heywood was his absolute control of his crew and , in particular , his assurance that he was the boss , despite his tender years and meagre experience . |
| 19 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 20 | She went on to admit , ‘ I feel guilty , but I dislike them intensely at times . |
| 21 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
| 22 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 23 | ‘ All these chores are making me so hungry that it is , as I said before , only fair that you feed me properly in order to keep me going . ’ |
| 24 | This is not as frightful as it may sound : with self-build projects the council inspectors are usually very helpful , although you should n't badger him/her relentlessly for advice , and employing reputable tradesmen should eliminate any problems with outside labour . |
| 25 | ‘ No matter what he is now , Mr Gillis treated me badly at school and he treated you even worse . |
| 26 | Well I think that 's cos I lie on me right in bed . |
| 27 | The element of distortion and the handling of the space in these paintings relates them intimately to Cubism , although most Cubist painting is close , too , in feeling to the more constructive and austere portraits , still lifes and landscapes . |
| 28 | And then if it 's in another area which invariably is if you 've got to give them somewhere like Trowbridge or sometimes erm in Bath or Chippenham You then have to ring up D S S to find the address . |
| 29 | However , the governors were unwilling to leave out any of the head 's recommendations and they decided to treat them all as priorities . |
| 30 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |