Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 2 | You tell me lies all the time ! |
| 3 | I says all the way back . |
| 4 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 5 | My gets thicker every time I come . |
| 6 | So everybody have document and hit shift F ten and they 're on page nine now if we go , hold down the alt key and type B and you 'll just see er a shimmer go down the screen an then you do n't actually see anything , but if you alt U , everything appears underlined alt K converts everything into small capitals alt S , strikes through everything and alt I italicizes all the words . |
| 7 | It is joint working which involves all the groups , agencies and individuals — voluntary organisations , consumer groups and private agencies , housing associations , education departments . |
| 8 | There is considerable dissension in the literature as to what precisely constitutes desertification ; Kovda ( 1980 ) , for example , uses the term to describe land aridisation which involves all the processes that culminate in a reduction of the effective moisture content of soils and thus cause a decrease in biological productivity . |
| 9 | We can refer to this division of language into parts as an atomistic approach , and its opposite — an approach which involves all the parts working together — as holistic . |
| 10 | The criterion for capitalists to scrap old equipment is not whether the machine is physically serviceable — most machinery is withdrawn from use well before it has worn out — but whether it can any longer be operated profitably And the key factor which renders unprofitable the operation of older vintages of machinery is a rise in wage costs . |
| 11 | A position which provides shelter from wind is almost more important than one which receives all the sun available ; wind is excessively drying and moisture is transpired from plants much more quickly than is realized , along with the essential oils , relatively " heavy " though they are . |
| 12 | Further , it is a debate which displays all the symptoms of degeneration in argument that sociology is too often heir to , namely thinking about issues in dualistic terms ; that , in this case , the choice is between two sides , the quantitative and the qualitative and that one can not have both . |
| 13 | Stage 5 shows that the leading edge dowels do NOT reach the extreme nose unlike the spine which goes all the way from trailing edge to nose . |
| 14 | Vast though the distance is which separates such a question as the primacy from the central truths of Christianity , there is a similarity in Anselm 's approach to the greater and lesser questions . |
| 15 | The picture which emerges is a mixed one indeed : on the one hand , the creation of a committee structure which defies all the rules of good management and administration , and on the other , a number of actual or potential outcomes of considerable value . |
| 16 | ‘ It just did n't look good for the British car industry which needs all the help it can get . ’ |
| 17 | This frontier was fixed in 1920 in order to form a distinct territory of Northern Ireland which contains all the areas where quite large numbers of Irish Protestants live alongside the Irish Catholics . |
| 18 | You can get Gift Wrap Duets , a useful booklet of ideas which contains all the materials stocked by V V Rouleaux , by sending a cheque for £4.25 and a large sae ( the booklet measures 21 mm by 20 mm ) to the address mentioned above . |
| 19 | A 0.6-kb subclone , which contains all the homology with human SRY , hybridizes to the same male-specific marsupial fragments identified by the human SRY probe ( Fig. 1 b ) . |
| 20 | The authorities and Herr Sanders are alike baffled to explain the affair , which contains all the ingredients of an insoluble mystery . |
| 21 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 22 | What I am finding is the remains of another file altogether — one kept by Serafin , which contains all the communications he received . |
| 23 | In the case of depression , it is easy to see the body shape which accompanies such a condition . |
| 24 | Hodder and Stoughton 's National Trust Handbook 1993 , which covers all the Trust 's many gardens and houses ( £3.95 ) is invaluable . |
| 25 | An abridged version of the Longman Dictionary of Business English ( q.v. ) , specially written for students in commercial and vocational schools and which covers all the vocabulary needed for day-to-day office and business practice . |
| 26 | But there is not single convenient explanation which covers all the cases . |
| 27 | If this flag is OFF , any category which covers all the input is accepted as a valid parse ; if the flag is ON then only parses whose root category is an extension of [ T + ] are accepted . |
| 28 | It can not be the headquarters building of a normal fort and its association with a building which has all the appearances of a normal villa merely emphasizes the difficulties of interpretation ; but for the inscription a villa it would be . |
| 29 | There 's always been a ‘ missing link ’ in pickup sound , the gap between the traditional Gibson-style humbucker — loads of power and warmth , but often too thick and blurry for rhythm work — and the classic Fender single coil , which has all the bite and clarity you could want but needs the hands of Hendrix to make it sing . |
| 30 | This is a delightful book which has all the makings of a minor classic . |