Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism .
2 Certainly for many mothers the price of freeing their children from the oppressive atmosphere of yesteryear was yet a further form of oppression for themselves when freedom was overdone .
3 As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 .
4 Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force .
5 Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force .
6 We will encourage parents on income support to claim maintenance by allowing them to keep part of it before benefit is cut .
7 Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal .
8 They need to have genetic material , pollen , transported from one individual plant to another and they are prepared to sacrifice a substantial proportion of it as food to those that will do the job .
9 By the late twelfth century , even in England , the function of the suitors had been reduced to this : a committee of them provided information to royal justices in a court which had become effectively or actually an offshoot of the king 's court .
10 The doctrine of the Trinity thus becomes the universal dialectical process , while the dogmas of creation and incarnation speak of Mind 's projection of itself as Nature , and witness to the ultimate identity of Infinite and finite Mind .
11 We would go to Middleton Carnival with them when time and circumstances permitted , and one lovely June day we went to High force and had a picnic .
12 For it is the will of our courteous Lord that we should be as much at home with him as heart may think or soul desire . ’
13 I hereby declare this a Court of Law with myself as judge and those present as jury .
14 Oddly , I realize that that means there is more of the wood in them than flesh .
15 He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror .
16 In the end , porn matters to us because sex matters to us so much .
17 Our beachside barbecue is always one of the most popular events , and there 's no better place for it than Cosmos !
18 She flashed him her most sacharine-sweet and blatantly insincere smile , mentally notching up a point for herself when irritation tightened his lips .
19 And so we did a sort of what if analysis looking a at the impact of implementing erm these er prognostic categories on our patients .
20 She explained the minister 's ill-treatment of her as revenge for her withdrawal of an annual gift of £8 to the parish church when she found out that he had attempted to publish her charity .
21 It also remains to be seen whether better preretirement and health education programmes will play a part in helping people prepare constructively for old age and to make a realistic appraisal of the matters which are and will be of greater importance to them than sea air .
22 Shape and form are of greater importance to me than colour , so much of my work is in black and white .
23 Charles made his subjects swear a new form of allegiance to him as emperor , the vow being administered to all people over the age of twelve :
24 On Aug. 18 Ratsiraka declared Madagascar to be a federation of six states with himself as President , claiming to have the support of the five provinces where his ruling Arema party continued to hold majorities in the regional councils .
25 Josey had popped round to spend a consoling hour with her while husband Charlie watched football on TV .
26 Much of the credit for that must go to New Zealander George Simpkin , the man who made a name for himself as coach of Waikato and subsequently as coach of Fiji in the 1987 World Cup .
27 In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states .
28 the other thing is to do with being fascist , yes , but you know you erm , you can talk about Russia , you know , running under the Czar and all the rest of it before communism came along .
29 The small railway outpost had the Indian sign on it when closure came entirely on I January 1917 in the midst of World War I. However , some five years later the GWR had a change of heart and decided to reopen the station to goods traffic on 18 September 1922 .
30 It seems very unjust that D should have been required to pay Mrs. Bennett 's debt ; but note that he could probably have recovered the money from her as money paid to her use .
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