Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But top psychologist Maryon Tysoe insists that sex is n't necessarily a key factor in an age-gap relationship . |
| 2 | But with 20 goals in 28 games for the Scottish champions , including six in the last four , Taylor wonders whether maturity will now allow a player who withered in the Mexico World Cup to blossom in this summer 's Euro climax in Sweden . |
| 3 | FMCG thinks that control of non-interest expenses creates a virtuous circle of its own . |
| 4 | Despite the difficulties and the continuing insecurity of support , Linda concludes that life for Elizabeth and Helen has been improved by their time in the community and that the hard journey is worth it . |
| 5 | Richard says that trainer Martin Pipe 's horses are coming into form and its going to be a tough race |
| 6 | Freud assumes that nature dominates man and seems to threaten humanity with hostile happenings — earthquakes , floods and storms , illnesses and death itself . |
| 7 | Boss Esmond Bulmer says that cider sales ‘ continue to show great resistance to the slump ’ and this has bumped half-year pre-tax profits to £10.7m , a jump of 18% on the corresponding period . |
| 8 | Gower argued that the evidence from the United States shows that regulation does not affect market efficiency either beneficially or adversely . |
| 9 | The development is one of recovery of health from sickness ; Hilton sees that man 's dual nature has a double inheritance : the sickness of the self that we are born to ( 3.19 – 20 ) and the transcendent " heritage of " ( Scale 2. 46.139r. – 301 ) that we can work towards : In The Scale Hilton developed at greater length the nature of the active and passive elements that belong to the contemplative life through which those who pursue it discover in the structure of their own experience the very being of Christ . |
| 10 | Ofwat estimates that water companies will have to spend between £28 billion and £43 billion between 1995 and 2005 to improve the quality of drinking water and clean up beaches and sewage discharges . |
| 11 | McLuhan believes that writing fosters " linear thinking " : " The fragmenting of activities , our habit of thinking in bits and parts — " specialism " — reflected the step-by-step departmentalizing process inherent in the technology of the alphabet … |
| 12 | American evidence cited by Phillips and Hawkins demonstrates that delay can be used as a deliberate tactic either against unmeritorious or unreasonable claims , or to alleviate the cash-flow problems of smaller insurance companies . |
| 13 | Ieremia Tabai President ; Minister of Foreign Affairs Teatao Teannaki Vice-President ; Minister of Finance Ieruru Karotu Works and Energy Taomati Iuta Natural Resources and Development Babera Kirata Home Affairs and Decentralization Uera Rabuau Transport and Communications Raion Bataroma Trade , Industry and Labour Ataraoti Bwebwenibure Education Rotaria Ataia Health and Family Planning Michael Takabwebwe Attorney General Tekinaiti Kaiteie Line and Phoenix Group |
| 14 | In his important best-selling book The End of Nature , the American writer Bill McKibben argues that nature holds other crucial , non-material values for us , and that with the onset of man-made global warming and the spread of genetic engineering , ‘ our sense of nature as eternal and separate will be washed away . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , Ronald Stamper suggests that doing business is predominantly a matter of solving semantic problems : |
| 16 | Rosenberg suggests that evapotranspiration in much of the grain belt may be unchanged or even beneficially reduced , despite changes in other climatic parameters . |
| 17 | However , Koch argues that acceptability drives the rest : " the ability to provide any service which meets the patients ' needs or expectations , or is seen to make stupendous efforts towards this , will be a major quality predictor of success " ( Koch 1990 : 132 ) . |
| 18 | While we wait for the pendulum to swing : Gail Counsell warns that house prices could take years to recover after the latest rise in interest rates |
| 19 | With Ingres Corp and Informix Software Inc already won over to CAFS Content-Addressable File Store-based database Search Accelerator hardware , ICL says that Oracle Systems Corp has now signed to implement a version of its database for the system , while Sybase Inc is waiting in the wings to follow suit . |
| 20 | ICL says that hardware price-performance has been improved by about 20% , and main memory prices are halved . |
| 21 | DEC says that OSF/1-on-Alpha is now its primary platform and applications target and that customers are telling it the transition would be made more easily from MIPS R/4000-based boxes running Ultrix than OSF/1 . |
| 22 | Alison says that camp was great fun . |
| 23 | But when Patrick says that sort of thing to Jenny , he adds that she is an exception to this law of nature . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Garscadden says that banding protects the rich and the hon. Member for Dagenham says that the Government are clobbering the rich , and still we do not know . |
| 25 | Bricknell says that Cefic has responded to the suggestion of such a tax by saying that all it will do is reduce the industry 's ability to spend money on new plants and technology . |
| 26 | Although IBM and DEC withdrew their products from Technology following its acquisition by ICL , Coon says that Technology has convinced him that it will not cross sell or give away DG 's secrets to its competitors . |
| 27 | Upholstery and furnishings were supplied by G. D. Peters & Co . |
| 28 | The owl of Minerva flies as dusk is falling : the laibon believes he is not long for this earth . |
| 29 | Mr Scully adds that security considerations may limit what data an individual can look at — London , for instance , can not look at the accounts specific to Hong Kong . |
| 30 | On the fault-tolerance front IBM says that Mode 3 substantially cuts the delay between the one machine failing and the other one picking up where it left off ; by the company 's own estimation the switch can take from anywhere between a long 30 seconds to a horribly long five minutes in modes 1 and 2 . |