Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) attitudes towards the nature of representation , ( 2 ) behaviour within council groups , ( 3 ) preference for governing the city as a whole or looking after the interests of a ward , ( 1 ) preference for dealing with general policy issues or with individual problems , ( 5 ) preference for specialisms in one aspect of council work or generalizing over them all , and ( 6 ) attitudes towards the involvement of community organisations in the government of the city ( Newton 1976a:114 ) . |
| 2 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 3 | ‘ 5(1) Property shall be regarded as belonging to any person having possession or control of it , or having in it any proprietary right or interest ( not being an equitable interest arising only from an agreement to transfer or grant an interest ) . … |
| 4 | By s.5(1) of the Theft Act 1968 : [ p ] roperty shall be regarded as belonging to any person having possession or control of it , or having in it any proprietary right or interest ( not being an equitable interest arising only from an agreement to transfer or grant an intent ) . |
| 5 | Dialogues are carried on to tell the reader something he must know , or to infuse into him some explanations of a writer . |
| 6 | It was this Hope that interfered with it all . |
| 7 | It must have been the word " social " that created for her this image , a word judiciously expunged from later versions of the verse . |
| 8 | The difficulties of this task are compounded by a natural unwillingness to admit any independent criteria for judging a particular reading , since Althusser 's aim is to interpret Marx in his own terms , rather than to impose on him any independent ( and ideological ) standards . |
| 9 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
| 10 | It is easier to divide up s.22 than to look at it all at once . |
| 11 | After a while , as he was thus musing , there appeared before him one in white garments , who said unto him , Sleepest thou or wakest thou , Rodrigo ? and he answered and said , I do not sleep : but who art thou that bringest with thee such brightness and so sweet an odour ? |
| 12 | Grimly he started to sing an old war-song , to lift the weight that lay on them all . |
| 13 | It is interesting how many of the social workers who regard themselves as identified with their clients , sharing some sense of oppression by the ‘ bureaucracy ’ that weighs upon them both and working therefore to help the clients receive resources from the ‘ system ’ , have a view of social security field staff that is directly in contrast to their view of their own position . |
| 14 | They heard a woman 's voice but it was the deep voice of the count that carried to them most of all . |
| 15 | In a sense , then , survival into old age is a triumph , but a triumph that brings with it many problems , problems that tend to increase the longer one survives , the greater age one attains . |
| 16 | I think it would be easier to get an audience with the pope than to speak to you these days . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Now I open tonight 's reading from the master 's great Oliver Twist , the famous scene chosen by Dickens for his own readings and which led to his early death , from the violent emotion that swept over him each time he read this passage . ’ |
| 18 | The British murmur ‘ You must come and stay with us some time , ’ and when they part they say ‘ Let's keep in touch ’ and they certainly do n't mean it , but it greases the wheels of intercourse . |
| 19 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 20 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 21 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 22 | The all-woman crew were bringing the launch in , leaping with fearless agility to the jetty and tying up efficiently , as though they had been born on boats and lived on them all their life . |
| 23 | I suppose the best thing for you to do is to book a plane ticket to London for around the beginning of April and forget about him that way . ’ |
| 24 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 25 | The sun 's warmth falls on my body , its rays filling me and driving from me all fear and shadows . |
| 26 | All they had to do was sit back and wait for it all to fall apart . |
| 27 | The parent is the person whom we 've copied , talking and listening to them all our lives . |
| 28 | He was saying how he used to stand awestruck in the Sugar House and listen to you all night long ! |
| 29 | After the phenomenal success of In Which We Serve , the Italian producer Filippo del Giudice , whose belief in high-budget artistic filmmaking was in line with Rank 's , attached his Two Cities company to Independent Producers , and made through it such films as the Lean-Coward This Happy Breed ; Laurence Olivier 's rampantly patriotic version of Shakespeare 's Henry V ( 1945 ) ; Thorold Dickinson 's unbalanced Men of Two Worlds ( 1946 , Witch Doctor in US ) and Carol Reed 's Odd Man Out ( 1945 , Gang War in US ) , the story of a dying gunman 's desperate search for charity on the streets of Belfast . |
| 30 | Making hats for a living and looking at them all day long has mellowed her taste somewhat . |