Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you 're thinking of sharing it all with someone who feels the same . |
| 2 | Furthermore , a claim of discrimination can be brought by someone who lacks the necessary qualifying service for unfair dismissal rights . |
| 3 | The comradeship so typical of the occupational culture of the police does not extend to ‘ covering the ass ’ ( a phrase made eloquent in the sociology of policing ) of someone who lets the whole side down . |
| 4 | Thankfully it is comparatively rare for human beings to seek to exterminate those creatures whom they regard as very much their inferiors — it is hard to find someone who favours the meaningless slaughter of dogs , for example . |
| 5 | For example , someone who accepts the official theory of life in the classroom and ‘ wants to learn ’ can be heavily sanctioned with abusive appellations from the same stock as are applied to the opposition on the terraces ( cf. |
| 6 | Covenanted donations to charities for a term of more than three years can be offset against tax if you are someone who pays the higher rate of tax . |
| 7 | Opportunities range from those which are more or less obvious to everyone to those which are only spotted by someone who makes the conceptual breakthrough . |
| 8 | A woman might marry someone who reflects the emotional responses she had with her father . |
| 9 | On a deeper level , an actor is someone who remembers the primitive primordial impulses that inhabited his body before he was ‘ civilized ’ and ‘ educated ’ . |
| 10 | Now Regan 's response to this , exemplified in the imbecile 's fear , would be to insist that since ordinary usage almost seems to demand that we describe that unfortunate as recognising a snake , and because this is only possible of someone who holds the necessary beliefs , then he must hold them somehow and somewhere . |
| 11 | To someone who holds the Cartesian view it must seem that only something we would hardly call ‘ perception ’ reflects the philosophical truth of the matter . |
| 12 | ‘ For gosh sake , for somebody who knows the human anatomy inside and out , you 're awfully prim , Charity . |
| 13 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 14 | Gwendolen 's first glimpse of Ryelands is also a picture — a ‘ white house … with a hanging wood for a background , and the rising and sinking balustrade of a terrace in front ’ — but this graceful place , despite the warmth and light inside it , is the context in which she faces the chilling implications of ‘ getting her choice ’ . |
| 15 | It is hard to think of any aspect of Gertrude Stein 's Three Lives that has not been covered , except the exploratory and explanatory uses to which she puts the black woman who holds centre stage in that work . |
| 16 | Pamina 's G minor aria ‘ Ach , ich fühls ’ , in which she laments the apparent loss of Tamino 's love , is one of the simplest , yet most heartfelt musical expressions of grief ever penned . |
| 17 | MY ATTENTION has been drawn to the letter from Muriel Green ( HAS May 5 ) , chairwoman of the education committee , North Tyneside Council , in which she defends the comprehensive school ideal . |
| 18 | Okay , yo , you want , you want to find out which one burns the longest ? |
| 19 | Oh for a discipline in which everybody accepts the same facts , more or less , and students could get on with learning an agreed list . |
| 20 | Jones is also determined to increase funding for basic research , which he says the previous government allowed to run down . |
| 21 | There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography . |
| 22 | But the most objectionable aspect of his article is the airy complacency with which he identifies the psychological morbidity of all but his chosen few . |
| 23 | ‘ In Anthony Asquith 's delicate direction , the film has its power precisely in the care with which he presents the moral discussion of the novel , ’ wrote one critic . |
| 24 | And in one marvellous passage , in which he contrasts the old dispensation with the new , Paul reaches this point as the climax of his theme . |
| 25 | I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains . |
| 26 | At present his status in the three books is relevant because it serves to establish Buchan 's particularly energetic version of Ruritanian adventure and the irony and humour with which he tempers the romantic colour of his fiction . |
| 27 | In this context each individual can emphasise that aspect of the two modes of being for which he has the greatest gift and both may further the understanding of the work of love . |
| 28 | The alternative view is that the reason for the present rule regarding skill and knowledge is that without it the employee might well be prevented from earning his living in the area in which he has the greatest experience . |
| 29 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 30 | Since then he has dedicated his life to his practice in Calcutta where he now only sees the most difficult cases , particularly those with organic pathology for which he finds the 50 millesimal potencies especially appropriate . |