Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 2 | Bamber blames glamorised media portrayals of nurses for contributing to the problem in that they ‘ do nothing to support realistic expectations of working in a hospital , but only seem to strengthen the ‘ angel ’ stereotype ’ . |
| 3 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 4 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 5 | It 's quite funny watching them make complete fools of themselves . |
| 6 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
| 7 | ‘ I really do n't like them eating that sort of disgusting junk food , ’ Laura protested . |
| 8 | Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution . |
| 9 | What renders science distinctive , then , is not so much the instruments that are played , for crude variants of these can be found wherever we look ; nor even the particular tune , for everyone plays brief snatches of this from time to time ; it is rather the sustained and collaborative elaboration of this particular melody in preference to all the others one might play . |
| 10 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 11 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 12 | Ideas about not ‘ burdening others ’ with personal problems , that discussing them denotes some kind of ‘ personal weakness ’ , are common within the older generations , especially when the prospective counsellee has a strong sense of personal dignity and pride . |
| 13 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 14 | We put all sorts of rules in , we we make them undergo various periods of er , o of probation before we 're wor , we 've we 're , we 're willing to call them Christians . |
| 15 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 16 | In the first place , everyone travels by car and therefore everyone has first-hand knowledge of how awful the roads are . |
| 17 | Everyone has some way of coming into a cognitive and very deeply associational relationship with clothing — perhaps we should bring that to painting and sculpture ’ , says Richard Martin , the newly appointed curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( that 's the way he tends to talk ) . |
| 18 | Everyone has some kind of world view . |
| 19 | Mrs Murchie , 48 , who has been a member for nine years , believes everyone needs some kind of first aid training . |
| 20 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 21 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 22 | The countries have also committed themselves to ( i ) promoting integrated pest management in agriculture and ( ii ) providing financial and technical support to farmers to help them introduce non-chemical methods of controlling pests . |
| 23 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 24 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 25 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 26 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 27 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
| 28 | We have welcomed what the Board are doing , and we 've encouraged them to find new ways of doing so more in meeting the needs of the elderly who increase in numbers here in Scotland . |
| 29 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
| 30 | Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired . |