Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because a child may lack wisdom and finesse does not mean that he or she lacks either intelligence or sensibility . |
| 2 | the girls of my school have to take the place entirely of the mother of the family ; the families are generally large ; the woman goes out in the morning , she works in a pickle house , if she is a better class woman she goes out charring , or she goes out step cleaning during the day and the little girl takes the place of the mother of the family . |
| 3 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 4 | It is only known to breed in the Gulf area , where it digs out burrows in the sand and , as its name suggests , it feeds almost exclusively on crabs . |
| 5 | ‘ The main problem is that the illness makes her foodpipe so sore that she drinks only milk and rarely eats solids . |
| 6 | Stick a gold star ( or a dab of nail varnish ) on the bottom button and sew a little red thread on the bottom buttonhole so that she does n't mismatch them . |
| 7 | She recognizes the fact that she loves both Paul and Bernard , but transposes this love onto the plane of the sacred and finds herself released from sexual desire . |
| 8 | It highlights the importance of theory ( although it covers only Marx , Freud and feminist approaches in its brief summaries ) and the argument is made that ‘ positivism ’ is the main reason for the rejection of research use by practioniers . |
| 9 | Although it works both ways . |
| 10 | If Irish industry is indeed managing its 17 000 out of 20 000 tonnes production of toxic wastes so efficiently that it pollutes neither land nor water then Ireland ought , by right , to become top European advisor on wastes handling . |
| 11 | The main advantage of the new method is that it requires only water . |
| 12 | Whereas the compulsory purchase order enquiry is fairly passive , relying on party initiative to inform the minister , the investigative enquiry is more active in that it seeks out information . |
| 13 | They know that it bumps up sales figures . |
| 14 | The ‘ glass shot ’ was originally painted on glass — and often still is — so that it fills only part of the frame , the rest of which is occupied by a built set and/or action . |
| 15 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
| 16 | That it does not means that this theory , like the other versions of interference theory already discussed , needs to include some further process ( such as a loss of associability ) to explain the results . |
| 17 | The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said . |
| 18 | And when you consider that it measures only 17mm in depth at the first fret , it 's the closest yet to an invisible neck , from a purely tactile point of view . |
| 19 | The Chorley Report ( 1987 ) notes that it costs around £800 to digitize , check and edit one Master Survey Drawing . |
| 20 | Typically in English a paragraph is unified by the fact that it brings together material around a single point or topic indicated in the first sentence . |
| 21 | Without entering into the substantive details of the agreement or of the 1990 convention for its application , which appears not yet to have entered into force , it may be noted that it sets out rules for crossing the signatory states ' frontiers not just for their own citizens but also for citizens of all EC Member States , and the Convention of Application distinguishes between treatment at the internal and external borders of the signatory states . |
| 22 | An important feature of McGregor 's approach is that it shows how management assumptions are important in determining motivation and morale . |
| 23 | The company will probably discover , to its chagrin , that it cuts both ways . |
| 24 | This bacterium is unusual in that it tolerates extremely acid conditions . |
| 25 | When he is walking outside , the patient has to be specially careful to lift his feet off the ground so that he does not trip . |
| 26 | This is evidence that he does not posses any deep feelings at all for any of them . |
| 27 | In response to their charge ( Mark 3:22 ) that it is through demonic power that he casts out demons , he replies that no divided house can stand : if Satan casts out Satan , his empire is doomed . |
| 28 | The sub-contractor should be required to produce evidence that he possesses both employer 's liability and public liability insurance . |
| 29 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 30 | One minute you say trustfully that he contains only soya meal and the next you suspect him of harbouring chunks of minced-up nameless anatomy . |