Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 2 | Rixi certainly had a voluminous ego , and thought nothing of confiding that a team mate was ‘ a selfish bitch ’ . |
| 3 | It misleads one into thinking that a person is somehow divorced from his body , a disembodied observer of it . |
| 4 | ‘ My man in Brixton knows everybody worth knowing and a sackful of those you would n't want your enemies to know . |
| 5 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 6 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
| 7 | After a period of time , silence on the part of a third party ( the most likely response ) could estop it from denying that a novation had occurred . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ If elected , I commit myself to ensuring that a larger and stronger Labour opposition will challenge ceaselessly policies which damage our economy and divide our society . |
| 9 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |