Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Coutts & Co prides itself on offering comprehensive national and international banking and financial services with ‘ an unwavering commitment to courteous and individual service ’ . |
2 | This simply means that meaning shared by words or signs allows them to be located close together in the system which allows them to be identified internally . |
3 | Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way . |
4 | Is it not possible , for example , that some theory is better , in the sense of being closer to the truth , a better problem solver , a better instrument of prediction or whatever , than a rival , even though no individual or group judges it to be so ? |
5 | And because she happens to live reasonably near a park , she walks Sandy or Sandy walks her in the park , she meets other dog walkers and they are her human contacts . |
6 | Incidentally , I shall use the name Mary as a double blind in the sense that none of the woman 's family or friends knows her as Mary . |
7 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
8 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
9 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
10 | So I do n't think her Nan really knows that Kelly does it to loads of people , do you know , cos she was Geraldine 's best friend , Katie 's best friend . |
11 | Why do the Government preach that we should listen to industry when they ignore everything that industry tells them about training in the construction sector ? |
12 | Such a role entails the belief that Labour has something of value to say to everyone : the party 's future natural constituency is the whole community without class or political boundaries . |
13 | Although Koch prides himself on his team 's technological programme , he admitted he had overlooked the change to daylight-saving time , which meant the races began an hour earlier , while the wind was still building . |
14 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
15 | No , I 'm quite sure that Ethel knows something about it . |
16 | In many places there were at least elements of spontaneity and although Duiker compares it with Trotsky 's description of the Bolshevik revolution as , for the most part , being a ‘ revolution by telegraph ’ , Khanh says that most places acted without instructions from the Central Committee . |
17 | this does no mean that Bristol considers itself to be outside the Continent . |
18 | A quick glance across the Channel will confirm that AV delivers none of these . |
19 | Unfortunately , it is decided not to reveal the fact that Johnson is not dead in this video , as this would affect sales of the ten-album box set of his old songs , so Richards thumps him with a Gibson L5 and Johnson finally dies , leaving behind one last blues classic : ‘ Devil Dog On My Trail ’ . |
20 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
21 | Neither rejection , protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays . |
22 | Analysts agree that Lamont has plenty of scope before he comes anywhere near equating tax on company cars with the true value of the benefit . |
23 | As the recriminations between the brothers become more explosive , and the wounds of jealousy reopen , I 've a horrible suspicion that Harwood wants us to be genuinely moved , but after all the superficial comedy , his attempt to lend the play emotional depth arouses embarrassment rather than pity . |
24 | The mere fact that people are convinced that freedom , for example , is a good thing , even that God desires it for us , does not make it more than wishful thinking . |
25 | But you know if you wanted to talk about sanctification , as a for instance , that 's growing in grace and holiness , becoming more the person that God wants us to be . |
26 | He was joyful , because that is the way God wanted him to be , and because that is the way that God wants us to be . |
27 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
28 | They have to find a way of expressing their confidence that God reveals Himself through His activity in the world , without making Him into a person like ourselves . |
29 | ‘ Estella ’ means a star , showing us that Pip sees her as a light in a dim world . |
30 | But if you look inward , inside the Cabinet system itself , in the way that Franks allows one to , you 'll see , will you not , that it was very difficult to get the relevant Cabinet committee — the Oversea and Defence Policy Cabinet committee , which the Prime Minister chairs — to discuss this issue ? |