Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you will discover , I am very much a believer that we largely teach ourselves when learning new skills and that the main purpose of a book or instructor is to help clarify exactly what your aims are . |
| 2 | I 'd rather it was with them than buying expensive misfits all the time . |
| 3 | On the practical side , Beccaria makes the quite unwarranted assumption that more serious crimes are more attractive and of necessity require more serious punishments to deter them than do lesser ones . |
| 4 | Indeed , it could be argued that the collective influence of the processes discussed in this chapter have made a greater impact on the cities and those living within them than has inner-city policy . |
| 5 | This problem is highlighted by the studies of Linton and Wagenaar which do make some attempt to sample a range of autobiographical events , both of which while showing slight memory improvements for emotional items appear to show memory impairments if the items were regarded as unpleasant . |
| 6 | Whereas the Shah came to be seen in Iran as doorman to the Great Satan , pushing Western goods and notions , Hassan had cleverly portrayed himself as resisting both Moroccos former colonizers the French , and , more recently , the American intrusion . |
| 7 | An unusual use of an SDO was the Vauxhall Cross proposal which though receiving architectural acclaim , was fiercely opposed by the local authority . |
| 8 | Fortunately , most retailers will split packs for you if buying whole packs would be uneconomical , so it 's best either to count up the numbers you need from a scale plan of the area to be tiled , or else to use the ‘ number per square metre ’ figures given above . |
| 9 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
| 10 | Scott Gibbs , whose midfield tackling was at the very heart of the Welsh win , has always struck one as having tremendous potential , but he has before now been roundly censured for his use of the ball after a break . |
| 11 | However , his attentions had been rather nice , she admitted to herself while taking extra care with her make-up before going to the dining-room . |
| 12 | As a result of this loss of belief in the potential for good in the future , the sufferer comes to perceive himself or herself as having few choices of action in life . |
| 13 | She was four foot ten and described herself as having sagging breasts and a low-slung bottom . |
| 14 | He mounted the gelding , then turned to smile at her while offering more advice . |
| 15 | C … pressed him though to get more client coupons . |
| 16 | On September 6 the Sunday Express published on its front page a story concerning the Princess Royal which quoted her as making certain statements . |
| 17 | But here , for the first time , she realised something essential , something that had never occurred to her when composing those letters ; that a performance was something that a person did , and not something that they were . |
| 18 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 19 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |
| 20 | It 's one of the old-fashioned files with a curly bit on the end for doing your cuticles and I 've always had better results from it than bending any amount of credit cards . |
| 21 | Spokesman Graham Sharpe is optimistic about a reconciliation and asks : ‘ What better way of proving it than having another child ? ’ |
| 22 | I almost got away with it until saw two letters |
| 23 | In cost-benefit analysis , the more important a site is in conservation terms , the smaller the monetary value placed on it when calculating likely compensation payments to be incurred by a road scheme . |
| 24 | Politicians and the media commonly use it when presenting political arguments for expenditure cuts , particularly in conjunction with other phrases such as ‘ cash limits ’ . |
| 25 | The English Courts can go no further , in the absence of a Bill of Rights " incorporating " the Convention into English law , than to apply it when interpreting ambiguous statutes , on the presumption that Parliament must intend to legislate in a manner consistent with the United Kingdom 's treaty obligations . |
| 26 | Whereas most theories of the state view it as providing certain services which promote the welfare of the society , they see it as an instrument of repression which is used by the ruling class to maintain the status quo . |
| 27 | How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ? |
| 28 | The July 1992 text regarded it as giving non-mandatory guidelines . |
| 29 | No statutory formula has been found that can make a provision judge-proof , in the sense of inducing the courts to accept it as excluding all opportunity for review , not even providing that a decision ‘ shall not be called in question in any court of law ’ . |
| 30 | The critical factor in the ‘ many sided problem ’ was felt to be the question of ‘ Rights and Duties within the State ’ , and their relation to the wider issues arising out of an increasingly democratic society , notably that of the ‘ sectional interest ’ of the labour movement , which was always of profound concern to the New Liberals who regarded it as undermining political stability and social harmony . |