Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 2 | In Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon Brooke-Rose reappropriates for women the role of one whose relation to language is both active and passive , that of the producer as well as the means of production . |
| 3 | Cooped up in the house like that — stinks of babies the whole time . |
| 4 | Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ . |
| 5 | This family of views , which derives from many of the same commitments as its predecessors , but owes a great deal to the development of the computer , has among others the rather unenlightening labels functionalism , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , and artificial intelligence-several of which labels obviously have other uses . |
| 6 | Even if one is not concerned with broader issues of social policy , one has at times a sense of being overwhelmed by the sheer extent of the work that needs to be done to support very old people and their carers , often reinforced by personal anxiety about one 's own relatives . |
| 7 | Clearly , for example , Althusserian structuralism has at times a quite tangible functionalist flavour , especially in its account of the reproduction of capitalist relations of production . |
| 8 | A World Apart is , ‘ despite ’ its author 's socialism , a ‘ deeply religious book ’ , in which she has at times the sense of ‘ a man talking to God ’ . |
| 9 | When the Folin is channelled through such a " funnel " as the south-north troughs of the Ticino and Reuss river valleys which form the " Gotthard Route " , it develops at times a violence that is awe-inspiring , and with such suddenness that alpine lakes such as this one have shore-based warning " flashers " at strategic points to let navigators know when a storm is imminent . |
| 10 | It instils into managers the values that drive the company , above all the values of Quality , Service and Cleanliness . |
| 11 | But he confirmed that the Government plans to changes the rules covering attendance allowances to increase the number of those terminally ill who can claim it . |
| 12 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 13 | Eliot uses at times a simplistic traditional form which incorporates elements of modernism , i.e. the subject matter providing a quirky pattern common in some poems . |
| 14 | An officer who deals with adults every day is not the right person to deal with teenagers . |
| 15 | As with any other expert 's report the accountant 's report will have to be disclosed as a condition precedent to calling him : the defendant 's solicitor will be entitled to object to the expense of such evidence if it simply deals with calculations the plaintiff 's solicitor could make himself . |
| 16 | He hangs in shades the orange bright Like golden lamps in a green night . |
| 17 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 18 | Drama quickly reveals to children the effectiveness of language , building up their language resources and allowing them to develop an awareness of a whole range of linguistic choices and registers . |
| 19 | The ALT constructor takes as arguments a number of guarded processes . |
| 20 | Kindles in clothes a wantonness : |
| 21 | It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work . |
| 22 | It confers on professionals the right to have their qualifications recognised in all member states . |
| 23 | But this analysis concentrates unduly upon the intellectual content of nationalism , while neglecting its social sources , and it attributes to intellectuals an exaggerated importance as leaders of nationalist movements . |
| 24 | He repeatedly complained of being old beyond his years , and yet behind his words one senses at times an element of satisfaction . |
| 25 | The Training and Employment Agency offers to companies a grant towards the achievement by individuals of recognised standards of training in certain craft based skills . |
| 26 | One of the unintended consequences of its use , however , as we shall see later , is that it also offers to readers an unusually rigid and frequently biased conception of gender . |
| 27 | The Banks Auditing Guideline , issued by the profession in 1989 , already imposes on auditors a professional obligation to report in certain circumstances . |
| 28 | To the outside world everything may look fine and dandy , what goes on behinds the scenes is a very different matter ’ — Fashion expert Iain R Webb . |
| 29 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
| 30 | And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse . |