Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 2 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 3 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 4 | Within the category of lexical items , I include the formulaic patterns I referred to earlier . |
| 5 | This controversial book was widely discussed but whether it was read by artists I leave to further research . |
| 6 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 7 | The number of times I come off this roundabout onto the wrong road , it 's |
| 8 | Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness . |
| 9 | The molecules each contain three atoms of sulphur , and are negatively charged : the structure that encases them consists of linked cages of aluminium , silicon and oxygen atoms . |
| 10 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 11 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 12 | After days of begging from supporters I have at last compiled a comprehensive A-Z of football , Athletico style . |
| 13 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 14 | And it 's important for our staff to be aware of that , and to realize that we have got ta continue to give , those two clients I believe in particular , the best possible service we can provide . |
| 15 | The socially undesirable characteristics which advocates of this movement felt were inheritable and should be eliminated were , as always , strongly influenced by contemporary social imperatives . |
| 16 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |
| 17 | The initial study of cancer cell behaviour can only be done with a living animal in order to define those ‘ test tube ’ characteristics which correlate with uncontrolled growth and spread of tumour cells within the whole body . |
| 18 | Bears , squirrels and badgers are some of the many animals which overwinter in this way . |
| 19 | Animals which live in open country , such as the African bush , tend to have their fovea elongated into a strip . |
| 20 | One of the problems that can develop through the feeding of wild animals is that of dependency , particularly in the case of those animals which live in urban areas where natural foraging opportunities are few and far between . |
| 21 | Nearby is Sea World , the home of sea lions , killer whales and other marine animals which perform before entranced audiences . |
| 22 | And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe 's . |
| 23 | Comm. ) , ( but ) there is no obvious reason why the same approach should apply to the criminal law , particularly in view of the different policy considerations which apply in civil and criminal law . |
| 24 | Sweelinck set the Geneva tunes in styles which range from those of the motet and madrigal to the onomatopoeic French chanson ; it is indeed strange that he ignored both words and tunes of his native Souterliedekens . |
| 25 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 26 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 27 | Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage . |
| 28 | It is known more usually under the name Gill-maggot , because of the length and shape of the female 's egg-sacs which look like miniature white maggots when viewed via the naked eye . |
| 29 | However , there continued to be successes from individual business units which resulted from another year of good effort , team work and commitment by Wimpol staff throughout the Group . |
| 30 | ‘ Small numbers of units which cut across traditional subject boundaries could be designed — one such unit on transport having already been produced . |