Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I suppose it might explain one of the greatest mysteries of her 40-year reign — where she gets those shoes and handbags . |
| 2 | If the sociologist is present at the moment of speech-production , whether as observer or interviewer , then he or she plays some part in the creation of the dialogue . |
| 3 | See that your client initials all alterations to any document executed , and that he or she signs any plan attached to it — this being unnecessary , however , if the plan is drawn on the actual document . |
| 4 | Probably the most accurate statement would be that a person intends to kill if it is his or her purpose to kill by the act or omission charged , or if he or she foresees that death is practically certain to follow from that act or omission . |
| 5 | The necessity for longer periods with individual readers has begun to affect the organisation of reading in the classroom ; the teacher finds that he or she needs more time . |
| 6 | With the help of 106 pairs of identical twins , Dr Colin Johnston and colleagues at King 's College Hospital and st Bartholomew 's Hospital in London showed that the risk of developing diabetes is far greater if a person has both DR3 and DR4 than if he or she has either antigen alone ( British Medical Journal , p 286 , vol 253 ) . |
| 7 | On the stage , where one has less time to dwell on the cadence or suggestion of the individual words , me cruelty is unendurable . |
| 8 | I know of one evangelist who puts aside one day a month for prayer and retreat at a Roman Catholic monastery where he receives much support . |
| 9 | We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 10 | And often , says Penny Mansfield , it 's not so much that he falls in love with another woman but he 's at a stage in life where he wants some diversion . |
| 11 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 12 | Continue on track as it bends right then curves round edge of large field , then past a second building and up minor ridge , where it meets another track coming up from right . |
| 13 | The idea has now reached dimensions where it requires some assistance by individuals with stature and/or money to legitimize its growth . |
| 14 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 15 | Section 7(4) imposes a duty on the disposal authority to issue such a notice where it appears that continuation of activities to which the licence relates would cause pollution of water , a danger to public health or are seriously detrimental to amenities of the locality , and can not be avoided by modifying the conditions specified in the licence . |
| 16 | Secondly , there are a number of different types of situation where there is missing information : either the recogniser produces no candidates for a letter string , or it produces some candidates . |
| 17 | Where the licensing board decides to hold a hearing as mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) above : ( a ) the clerk of the board shall serve on the holder of the licence , not less than 21 days before the hearing , a notice that the board proposes to hold a hearing , specifying the complaint and the grounds upon which suspension of the licence is sought ; ( b ) the clerk of the board shall give notice of the hearing to the complainer ; ( c ) any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act may , not less than 7 days before the hearing , lodge notice with the clerk of the board that he or it wishes to be heard in support of suspension of the licence specifying the grounds on which he or it seeks such suspension , an any such notice shall be intimated by such person to the holder of the licence ; ( d ) the board shall not order suspension of a licence without hearing the holder thereof unless after receiving due notice of the hearing the holder fails to appear . |
| 18 | If judicial review is seen as going further and being concerned with the protection of groups as well as individuals , standing rules should only require that the applicant show that he , she or it shares some interest with others . |
| 19 | Am I so negligible , she asked herself indignantly , that everyone feels this compulsion to speak for me ? |
| 20 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
| 21 | For what he means by Religion , as he points out , is that which underlies all religions . |
| 22 | It is very important in this environment that somebody administers each system otherwise it becomes cluttered or unvetted ( and for example , objectionable ) messages may be sent to others . |
| 23 | Although she grumbles that T.S . |
| 24 | Unger , although she emphasizes that sex is a stimulus as well as a subject variable , puts both these into the service of a ‘ cognitive perception framework ’ ( 1983 : viii ) . |
| 25 | And the beauty of it is that she embodies this core value of intimacy in her music better than anyone else who 's arrived on the scene in years . |
| 26 | He is annoyed that she does little cleaning and that the burden of getting Keith and Amy up and breakfasted is always his responsibility . |
| 27 | Alternatively , the reader can interpret this as a sign of her weakness , that she requires this support to justify her actions . |
| 28 | This is not to say that she has much time for the developers ' current products . |
| 29 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 30 | She thinks I let Norman down somehow by marrying a plumber — not that she has any job at all ! |