Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 2 | Confronted with the crass sexual exploitation of mainstream pop , alternative British rock shrouds itself in shapeless jumpers and stares heavenwards . |
| 3 | You see , for me a good game of football involves lots of intricate passing . |
| 4 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
| 5 | Do n't be surprised if your grief manifests itself in unexpected ways . |
| 6 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 7 | We use the words in the sense of a psychic process by which the mind protects itself from undue or unbearable pain , anxiety or conflict . |
| 8 | This episode takes him across Western Turkey and the Mediterranean , on to Greece , and Rhodes ( where he meets astrologer Patric Walker ) before hitting Africa in the shape of Egypt and Luxor . |
| 9 | A cable car takes you from nearby Ehrwald to the Zugspitzkamm station at 9,203 feet which has been partly blasted out of the rock . |
| 10 | The clarity of light throws everything into sharp relief against a backdrop of clear blue sky . |
| 11 | A managerial perspective on organizations presents them as social entities with a collective purpose . |
| 12 | However , once the coil tap has been activated , the switch moves you between tapped bridge and both bridge and neck together . |
| 13 | The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated . |
| 14 | If the reader 's research carries him beyond familiar legal fields into a large general library , he will find E.J. Dingwall 's How to Use a Large Library a useful guide . |
| 15 | The case says nothing about other restaurants , but there are almost bound to be more in a city centre location . |
| 16 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 17 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 18 | Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a love torn nymph , and at the end of a luminous day , when the sun turns everything to delicate hues , even the sceptical are ready to admit they have seen the Trasimeno nymph — adding to the water level with a few tears more . |
| 19 | Today the once-condemned village has lots of new houses ( including those which appear to have state-of-the-art outside netties ) and more under construction . |
| 20 | Whereas America has visitors with little bodies and big heads , Russia has them with big bodies and little heads . |
| 21 | Although , childbearing patterns thus belong to the behavioural sphere , their effect on the viability of offspring manifests itself through biological and physiological factors . |
| 22 | This influence manifests itself in melodic shapes ( largely pentatonic falling patterns , but , unlike , say , Chicago blues , also lyrical , sustained , long-breathed ) ; vocal timbre ( rich , open-throated , sensuous ) ; and the use of melisma . |
| 23 | The borough council blames them for serious defects found in the building . |
| 24 | This attitude protects you from negative suggestions and strengthens your defence mechanism in a socially acceptable way . |
| 25 | His cultural detective work leads him through aesthetic , anthropological and medical discourses about ‘ race ’ and sexuality , specifically as they were articulated around the figures of the female Hottentot and the prostitute in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | With a total population estimated at 15–30 million , crabeaters are almost certainly the world 's most numerous seals ( Laws , 1984 ) ; their wide dispersal on pack ice protects them from human depredations . |
| 27 | Remove any glue or solvents and make sure that your child gets plenty of fresh air . |
| 28 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 29 | They 'll shatter if Suragai pulls it at full stretch . ’ |
| 30 | The campaign to save a local arts centre starts innocently enough , but soon becomes the target for intimidation , and Jane finds herself in increasing danger as she uncovers layers of corruption that spread from an Oxford college to the Houses of Parliament . |