Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the scale of the Bank 's operations makes it improbable that even a substantial increase in its consumer lending would make a very great impact on credit options available to people in lower socio-economic groups . |
| 2 | many children 's solicitors found it difficult to determine the child 's competence to give instructions . |
| 3 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 4 | By 1935 the success of the children 's books made it possible for Ransome to buy a sea-going boat once again . |
| 5 | Nicky 's parents found him impossible to look after : he was always picking fights , especially with smaller children ; he had a fight with his teacher at school and ran away from home five times in two years . |
| 6 | Do hearing people have a significant role in raising the level of deaf people 's lives to help them fit into society better ? |
| 7 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 8 | In Selfoss the assistant in the chemist 's tries to sell us surgical spirit when we ask for meths and there is a pantomime while Tony explains to her , in best sign language , that what he wants is spirit for a Trangia . |
| 9 | The honeypot 's charms make it easy for the Fund to poach skilled personnel from Third World administrations already desperately short of such skills . |
| 10 | Time 's tangles took us different ways apart , |
| 11 | Do not today 's figures make it clear that it is official — Majorism is n't working ? |
| 12 | Today 's audiences find them old-fashioned : yet many modern ballets deal with similar evils such as present-day problems with drugs , AIDS , mental handicap , racism , imprisonment and so on , in which the balletic interpretation makes the same impression if the choreographer has really studied the themes outlined in his subject . |
| 13 | It is reported in [ 118 ] that Gauss 's friends found him cold , uncommunicative , ambitious for security and fame , and very conservative . |
| 14 | Tammuz' fury at Zambia 's threats rendered him speechless . |
| 15 | Genetic screening , to determine if the worker 's chromosomes render him vulnerable to occupational illness , looms on the horizon . |
| 16 | The street was wider there and Owen 's men found it easy to slip round the Sheikh separating him from his followers and surrounding him . |
| 17 | The journey was uneventful enough ; nights spent in some local hostelry , priory or convent where Queen Margaret 's influence and the Cardinal 's letters obtained us free food and clean but hard beds . |
| 18 | The small number of area health board staff working on the schools ' programmes makes it impossible for them to cater for individual classroom visits . |
| 19 | Pigs ' trotters made him sick . |
| 20 | Do you think you say there are difficulties for everyone , are you aware of any way in which erm men make it difficult for you , as a women , in a career sense ? |