Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 2 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 3 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 4 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 5 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 6 | The city was dominated by material problems like unemployment and housing , which although related to the issue of discrimination , were more obviously tackled by campaigns that focused on the issues themselves . |
| 7 | These rules were subsequently amended by the CMI , which although affiliated with the ILA acted as an independent entity . |
| 8 | If this was the case the caveman 's body would need to be ready to run away very quickly , or enable him to try to defend himself if caught by the tiger . |
| 9 | These rules include provision for the calculation of a quota of votes which if gained by a candidate will ensure election and this has the effect of producing in each constituency a result in seats which is as nearly proportional as possible to the opinions of the voters . |
| 10 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 11 | He defined trade secrets ( at p425 a-j ) as : ( a ) information used in the trade or business ; ( b ) of which the owner limits the dissemination or at least does not encourage or permit widespread publication ; ( c ) and which if disclosed to a competitor would be liable to cause real or significant harm to the owner of the secret . |
| 12 | It has a large preparation and grilling area with a removable firebowl , which if reversed with the windshield still attached will prevent rainwater collecting . |
| 13 | This provided an example of a well-understood formalism which if interrogated in a particle-like way gave particle behaviour and if interrogated in a wave-like way gave wave behaviour . |
| 14 | Thus a government which while adhering to the rule of law narrowly defined , flouted all or most of the practices generally thought to be covered by the rule of law broadly defined would also give rise to doubts about its legitimacy . |
| 15 | He seems most himself when snarling like a caged animal , droning and whining like a buzz saw , hacking at his guitar as if he is chopping wood . |
| 16 | In the same way he never recognised himself as eating with a familiar spoon from a familiar plate . |
| 17 | First , he saw himself as charged with a mission ( that of maintaining peace and unity ) which he could not simply renounce by an act of free will . |
| 18 | In Belfast , artist Jack Pakenham has always seen himself as fitting into a nebulous category of people in a no-mans-land , watching the activities of the city but unable to find a true affinity on either side of the often physically invisible diving line . |
| 19 | Although Richardson regarded himself as writing with a new realism , his novels gravitate towards the houses of the great as much as did the wealthier middle-class houses of his time . |
| 20 | It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating . |
| 21 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 22 | The individual sees himself as contributing to an indefinite process of inquiry by an unlimited community of inquirers , and he may well not believe that he will be around to see inquiry converge on the truth ( 5.589 , 2.652ff . ) . |
| 23 | On 10 March 1779 Wasbrough was granted a patent ( no. 1,213 ) for a ‘ machine , which when applied to a steam-engine or any perpendicular motion … will cause such movement to become circular , without the medium of a water-wheel , for grinding wheat and other grain , and for grinding , rolling , hammering , and other uses in mechanical operations ’ . |
| 24 | 8 The stimulus is the pin which when pressed onto the hand , causes us to feel pain . |
| 25 | These are commands selected from menus displayed on the screen although the keyboard is used , the main input device is currently the ‘ mouse ’ which when moved on a table produces corresponding movements of a pointer arrow on the screen . |
| 26 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 27 | Certain conditions can be described specifically e.g. broken limb etc , which when allied with the claimant 's occupation can generally provide a good indication of the potential duration of a claim . |
| 28 | which when chilled in the fridge ( not freezer ) acts as a cold compress for baby 's gums and helps to reduce any discomfort he 's feeling . |
| 29 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |
| 30 | Coats of arms are described according to rules known as blazon , a term which when used as a noun is a description in words of a coat and , when as the verb ‘ ( to ) blazon ’ , the act of so describing . |