Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-hand pipe organs are sometimes worth considering when they are fine instruments and when the total cost of their purchase , removal and rebuilding in a place suitable for them makes economic sense . |
| 2 | To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay . |
| 3 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 4 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 5 | One of them says statutory notifications must now be introduced . |
| 6 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 7 | Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others . |
| 8 | One of them provides income-earning assets to families : sewing machines , for example . |
| 9 | Try to have your progress reviewed regularly with your nurse manager , so that neither of you makes misleading assumptions about your ability to cope or happiness in the job . |
| 10 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 11 | A bachelor friend of mine takes great pride in culinary art which leaves him never short of admiring girlfriends . |
| 12 | Much of it requires mental effort to work through , effort which Taylor should have put in before writing off Darwinian explanations as ‘ pathetic ’ or ‘ ludicrous . |
| 13 | This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure . |
| 14 | Though it travels through some wonderful hill country the Way is n't a tough route — much of it follows level footpaths with plenty of riverside walking . |
| 15 | The solar wind carried its own magnetic field , and as this sweeps past it causes electrical currents to flow in the Moon . |
| 16 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |
| 17 | What complicates this state of affairs is that none of us has perfect recall of the past . |
| 18 | I wonder which of us has Yorkist sympathies . |
| 19 | It is not easy to achieve the recommendation of the HMI document The Curriculum from 5 to 16 , that pupils should be able to use what they learn for their own purposes , because each of us has different purposes in life , and what is relevant to one pupil will not be relevant to another . |
| 20 | I find it hard to believe that an attractive man like you lacks feminine company . ’ |
| 21 | Contact with it turns new wine sour , crops touched by it become barren , grafts die , seeds in gardens are dried up , the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled , hives of bees die , even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust , and a horrible smell fills the air ; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison … |
| 22 | Not all worlds are the same , and life upon them has strange effects upon the body . ’ |
| 23 | Indeed the supply of chaplains to educational establishments outside of our schools/colleges and their role within them needs careful appraisal . |
| 24 | Lacuna 's pleasure in you provides great pleasure for us . |
| 25 | However , the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore has shown that although the hyacinth is relatively rich in crude protein , protein extracted from it contains large quantities of unfavourable minerals . |
| 26 | In many cases this invisible emptiness inside us takes visible form . |
| 27 | Wimbledon pay my wages and my commitment to them takes top priority . |
| 28 | Among several unusual figurative images , Salvatore Rosa 's Philosopher Pointing to the Ground with a Companion beside Him derives mysterious qualities from its mixture of ink and brown wash over black chalk . |
| 29 | The concept of ‘ objectivity ’ is not neutral in English culture nor in international affairs in the modern world ; the appeal to it has significant implications not only for status but , more crucially , for power and control of resources . |
| 30 | A sales representative , for example , is not in that position as he meets large numbers of people for a short time . |