Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing illustrates better the fluidity of viewpoints by which we can swing towards and away from egoism , and how little it has to do with morality . |
| 2 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 3 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 4 | And I have a job which involves quite a lot of travel so I am not too restricted about where I live . |
| 5 | Any help which tackles only the surface expression of the doubt lacks compassion and is bound to fail . |
| 6 | ‘ He brings the same singleminded approach to the job , ’ says Donal Murphy , secretary of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers ' Association , which represents mainly the dairy sector and is the second largest farm body in Eire . |
| 7 | The class of a recogniser has a degree of fuzziness : Anything which produces exactly the sum K is certainly in the class . |
| 8 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 9 | Mann tries to combine the desperation of their plight with a more lyrical look at Indian respect for struggle and death , all of which sits together a smidgeon uneasily until the final reel . |
| 10 | Usefully packaged in a re-sealable bucket ( in a sealed bag ) with a measuring cup which holds exactly the salt for a gallon mix . |
| 11 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 12 | A fraught fivesome with ants in their pants and , presumably , cockroaches in their coat pockets , they 're all about threats and menace and a three-guitar assault which owes rather a lot to tykes like the Pixies but has absolutely no intention of paying the buggers back . |
| 13 | The Library , which contains also the world famous Old Master drawings collection , was untouched . |
| 14 | This is recognized taxonomically by the division between the Ponginae , which contains only the orang-utan and its putative fossil relatives , and the Homininae , for the African apes and humans . |
| 15 | An abbreviated version of the Package Structure Listing can also be obtained which contains only the package modules in the structure . |
| 16 | The health service is given a budget by the taxpayer which covers both the pay of staff and the services provided . |
| 17 | The other thing there is the evidence from the Law Society in England to the committee appointed by the government to look into the question of press self-regulation which has quite a lot to do obviously with privacy for everybody , but also |
| 18 | This is the route that Data Logic thought IBM was originally treading , a CICS/Open strategy in which the OLTP environment , plus the wealth of CICS applications already available , could be brought to the open systems market which has only a handful of fledgling OLTP technologies to offer , and few software packages . |
| 19 | Ground-level ozone , which has almost no contact with the ‘ ozone layer ; of the stratosphere , forms in ’ peaks ’ or ‘ episodes ’ , strongly influenced by sunshine . |
| 20 | In the case of the matching open-ended grant the effect is that of a price reduction , which incorporates both a substitution effect and an income effect ; hence the shift along the price consumption path PCC . |
| 21 | Now we have GCSE , which devolves somewhat the choice of topics and the manner and timing of assessment to individual schools , and shifts the balance of that assessment from the retention of content to the mastery of certain identifiable skills — though in practice how extensive a shift this has been remains open to question . |
| 22 | This is an organization that listeners may not realize , which meets probably a couple of times a term , and which members of the university and people outside community meet , have some supper together , perhaps , and actually hear some talks , either from people inside the university or outside , about topics of current interest . |
| 23 | There is also a Senior Liaison Committee , which includes representatives from the three departments , and from the Police and the Justices ' Clerks , which meets twice a year under the chairmanship of the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 24 | The Assembly ( which meets twice a year ) elects a Council of State ( the collective presidency , whose Chairman , currently Heng Samrin , was head of state ) as its permanent organ from among its members . |
| 25 | It elects from among its own members a reorganized bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet , which meets twice a year for three- or four-month sessions and is responsible for all legislative and administrative matters [ see pp. 36659-60 ] . |
| 26 | There is a National Assembly of 180 members which meets twice a year . |
| 27 | The Assembly ( which meets twice a year ) elects a Council of State as its permanent organ from among its members . |
| 28 | There are now over 20 members in the judo club which meets twice a week in the Egremont market hall . |
| 29 | Violations — poaching in another household 's area — is referred to a special council of eunuchs from all over India and Pakistan which meets once a year . |
| 30 | A self-help support group which meets once a month in the evenings ( usually the first Friday in the month ) to talk informally , or to listen to a speaker . |