Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton make of it all ? |
| 2 | Continued to support elderly owner occupiers to remain in their own homes . |
| 3 | At the same time they try to make sure that no other males get the opportunity to mate with their own female . |
| 4 | His forecast for 1985 in the NME led to nothing more than a throwaway : ‘ Disability chic will reign rampantly in 1985 . |
| 5 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
| 6 | Each case turns on its own facts but once the boundary between protectable secrets and general skill and knowledge is crossed the employer can not , even by way of express covenant , restrict the employee 's ability to use those skills once employment has ended ( Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 ) . |
| 7 | However , whilst the decided cases may offer some guidance as to the general approach , their precedent value is limited because each case turns on its own circumstances . |
| 8 | Twenty four parents were living with partners , six were single parents , and the remainder lived with their own parents . |
| 9 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 10 | But they insist that the money goes into their own pockets . |
| 11 | Speaking through an interpreter , Mr Usta said : ‘ As far as I can figure it out , one day before the operation the cheque was given by Dr Crockett , it was changed and the money given to me that night . ’ |
| 12 | This particular accolade results from opinions given by our own buyers and coming as it does after four years of recession speaks volumes for our commitment to quality and customer care . |
| 13 | Then without disclosing how — if he had the money to proceed on his own , he would not now be displaying that same information on Esther 's desk — he pressed her for a response . |
| 14 | Overland says it is to merge the Cipher Model M995 nine-track tape drives and Model T480 3480 cartridge drives with its own line . |
| 15 | But if the then Prime Minister had been governing by decree based on policies formed by her own beliefs , credit might have been easy . |
| 16 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 17 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 18 | Each author has been allowed the freedom to write in his own style and provides a large set of references promoting further study . |
| 19 | Paradoxically , the world governing body lags behind two of its member federations in implementing a measure recommended by its own specialist committee . |
| 20 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 21 | Just 5 minutes from the centre of St Johann , the Park stands in its own gardens by the gondola lift , and close to the summer toboggan run . |
| 22 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 23 | They requested permission to work on their own in a small area immediately outside the classroom , collected paper and felts , decided between them how to take turns to scribe . |
| 24 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 25 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 26 | I give space for others , and allow others ' plans to come before my own . |
| 27 | ‘ It seems to me that if one sets up a quango and it spends 26% of the money disbursed on its own administration , that is a pretty high percentage . ’ |
| 28 | The most popular work was that which allowed students freedom to work on their own — projects , for example . |
| 29 | It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action . |
| 30 | Two are about to leave Oxford University to work with their former professor — Tony Cheetham — and five other students who have already settled in California . |