Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 32 | I was however able to amuse myself by annoying the stewardesses by buzzing them every five to ten minutes asking for a drink , hence the time I spent in the toilet . |
| 33 | The Pharmacopoeia is now aiming , quite literally , to redouble its efforts by setting itself a target of 1500 monographs , covering the main existing pharmaceutical substances . |
| 34 | History has played a cruel joke on the Somalis by giving them a culture of internal clan divisions in a world of centralised government and bureaucracy . |
| 35 | The USSR Supreme Soviet , in a resolution of Feb. 25 , declared that the decision by republican authorities not to hold the referendum violated citizens ' civil rights by denying them the right to vote . |
| 36 | In the old days , travel agents looked after their customers by finding them the best-value hotels at the required destination . |
| 37 | PEPs originally were designed as part of the Government 's plan to help more people become share owners by offering them the chance to invest in the Stock Exchange . |
| 38 | Once you 've finished with the Steamatic , allow your carpets to dry for 1–2 hours before giving them a good vacuum to remove any remaining dirt particles . |
| 39 | Given that an individual has a purpose in seeking training in a second language , there is a whole range of in-built techniques for learning which the student can bring to the learning environment . |
| 40 | Power trickles down the edifice with the effect that those who actually deliver the service , teachers and lecturers , are the least powerful in terms of determining what the service is about , how it performs , how it should develop . |
| 41 | Sure , it 'll take your brain out , but in terms of following your every nuance , forget it . |
| 42 | If he fails to do so , the mortgagee will be entitled to an order of foreclosure absolute , the effect of which will be to vest the mortgaged property in him absolutely , but at the same time to prevent him — even if the property should prove insufficient — from claiming payment from the mortgagor , except upon terms of giving him a fresh right to redeem . |
| 43 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
| 44 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |
| 45 | It confirms their arguments by showing us a wealth of British paintings and prints , and allows the ‘ victims ’ — in the form of contemporary artists from the Lebanon , India , Iran and Iraq — to answer back , which they do with uncomfortable success . |
| 46 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |
| 47 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 48 | We chose to tackle the walk from north to south , not least because the route passes our home in the south — though the excellent official guide provides duplicate maps and instructions for waling it the other way . |
| 49 | His apologies to Rain were hasty and then he was gone , leaving her with her coffee and the Italian with instructions about calling her a cab . |
| 50 | Three Valenciennes players have accused the French champions of offering them a 250,000 francs ( £33,000 ) bribe to lose a key game on May 20 , a few days before their European Cup final against AC Milan . |
| 51 | " some allowance in respect of his charges in finding himself a scholehouse , for that the comon scholehouse was by the Mayor and townsmen of Stockport deteyned from him . |
| 52 | Having reduced Helena to tears by refusing her a kiss on his departure for the wars , he has , you notice , to check himself from an involuntary lunge forward to comfort her . |
| 53 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 54 | Anthemius intended to acknowledge his achievements by giving him the title of patricius , but the emperor was himself killed by Gundobad . |
| 55 | It is at least plausible that the cryptic advertisements widely adopted by cigarette advertisers in the UK work insidiously but effectively on children by offering them the reward of deciphering the hidden messages in ( for example ) the Benson & Hedges Pure Gold adverts : if they can understand and recognise them , they join an adult conspiracy or club . |
| 56 | ‘ The reason why we wish to purchase the property is that we obviously are n't happy to have a business concern operating in the midst of a residential area — which is why I 've come to open negotiations by making you an offer . ’ |
| 57 | This , of course , particularly has the benefit for residents of giving them a little extra space during the evenings and weekends when , generally speaking , day patients do not attend . |
| 58 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 59 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 60 | He just limped around gaining more sympathy from his students by hinting what a brute his wife was . |