Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is n't that where his name comes from — kee-wee — kee-wee ? ’ |
| 2 | Moreover , it can move individuals from one area of technical expertise to another where their experience is irrelevant , meaning that they face a period of low technical achievement . |
| 3 | ‘ Is this where your Uncle Matthew wanted to build houses ? ’ |
| 4 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 5 | Use this where your employee is leaving and has had at least four days ' SSP in the last eight weeks of the contract . |
| 6 | Every year , more Europeans learn a little more about one another than their ancestors ever knew . |
| 7 | Nothing distinguishes one community more sharply from another than its beliefs concerning the meaning of life , the position of men in the universe , and the ultimate significance of affliction and suffering . |
| 8 | But they can not do this if their minds and emotions are already sealed tight against it — if they assume that religion is outdated and not worth studying . |
| 9 | Originally nine of them , now six , skip this if their images are as stamped in your Find as they are in mine . |
| 10 | Thus instead of following the traditional linear progression of the allegory — a development towards contemplation based on Jacob 's union with Rachel after his marriage to Leah — Hilton is more interested in emphasising the coexistence of the two wives : In his reference to another facet of the story , that concerning Jacob 's change of name to Israel , allegorised as a man seeing God , Hilton does suggest a progression in contemplation for his pupil saying that he will become Israel , that is , fully contemplative , in the next world , certainly , and possibly even in this if his circumstances change so that he is relieved of worldly responsibility altogether . |
| 11 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 12 | this if my teacher mentions , if my teacher mentions |
| 13 | You would n't dare behave like this if your father were still alive . ’ |
| 14 | It may be difficult for you to do any more than this if your time with the video machine is very limited , and the only materials you have are non-ELT programmes . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd never have done this if your grandfather had been alive ! ’ |
| 16 | Now , what you 've got to do is to think well if you 've got a mortgage over er I would n't think you 'd consider this if your mortgage was under twenty thousand , it 's not such a big |
| 17 | They may even come up with possible solutions to the problems faced that will be equally attributable to their own situation , although they may be quite unaware of this until their attention is drawn to it . |
| 18 | I 'd no idea how I was going to deal with this until my eyes settled on the grate . |
| 19 | If the owner of the insurance company covering your house contents had absconded to Fiji , you might not discover this until your house was burgled and the company would not answer the telephone . |
| 20 | I do n't really know much about this cos my son does it all . |
| 21 | You may substitute another if its cover for watersports and sailing is equivalent or better . |
| 22 | The innovation was that management arranged these various jobs in such a way that an individual might expect to progress from one to another if their performance merited it . |
| 23 | It will of course anger some because its concentration on problems implicitly denies the possibility of good financial reporting . |
| 24 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 25 | I ask this because my water is never clean . |
| 26 | I guess I ought to be more honest about this because my daughter wrote me after her mother 's funeral and said she 'd guessed what had happened anyway . |
| 27 | We all know this because our cars , television sets , washing machines and refrigerators tend to stop functioning and require servicing and repair , and our houses , if we neglect them , fall into a state of disrepair . |
| 28 | Blanche scribbled the odd note : she needed few because her memory was retentive . |
| 29 | She , Esther and Alix had known one another since their Cambridge days , and often met , but an evening with them necessarily excluded Charles : Esther and Alix did not much care for the world that Charles represented , and his presence inhibited all three of them . |
| 30 | ‘ Was all this before your MS was diagnosed ? ’ she asked slowly . |