Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 2 | The number of times I come off this roundabout onto the wrong road , it 's |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bears , squirrels and badgers are some of the many animals which overwinter in this way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the reality is that through the inadequacies of the governance structure and of other pressures for conformity the directors have effectively wrested power to pursue goals which diverge from those preferred by the shareholders , then the necessary legitimating connection with property rights is not made out . |
| 10 | Thus the lack of balance which strikes anyone looking at a thoroughly drained , treeless landscape is reflected in a lack of honest balancing in the books and ledgers which lie behind that landscape . |
| 11 | Cichlasoma fenestratum — just one of the many Cichlids which live in this area . |
| 12 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 13 | The ‘ village community ’ can also mean , however , the pattern of social relationships which exist within this locality . |
| 14 | This states that the weights of two or more substances which chemically react separately with a fixed weight of a third substance are also the weights which react with each other or simple multiples of them . |
| 15 | There were plenty of examples of performances which fall into this category in cinematographic history , most notably those of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart dating back to the Thirties , and the more lovably roguish role , in Bogart 's case , in The African Queen . |
| 16 | Quite often this includes drill with minimal pairs , sets of words which differ from each other in just one phonemic contrast . |
| 17 | Yet there are some oddities about the words which fall within each category . |
| 18 | We do not , for example , tend to have words which refer to both sentient beings and to events . |
| 19 | There are no English words which begin like this . |
| 20 | They may also be created by words which associate with each other . |
| 21 | The pictures which led to such demand for the Daily Mirror that the Sold Out signs went up at newsagents all over the country . |
| 22 | For this reason it can prove profitable to branch whenever possible , only on variables which differ by more than some prespecified tolerance , 0.1 for example , from the nearest integer . |
| 23 | The intrusion of the bureaucratic considerations is likely to lead to solutions which differ in many cases from those an individual should have adopted if left to himself . |
| 24 | Just as parents sometimes feel caught in the middle of competing demands which arise from this conflict , so also do residential workers , often in more extreme ways . |
| 25 | If the user decides to read through more than one entry in alphabetical sequence , the Supplement entries which occur in that range of alphabet will automatically appear in their correct alphabetical places between the OED entries . |
| 26 | He further suggested that sequences which deviate from this ordinary order do occur , and he called a rheme-theme organization of a message the ‘ pathetic order ’ ( Firbas , 1974 ) . |
| 27 | On the contrary , it is to yearn for closer unity to be built on firm foundations and to reflect the real desires of a complex patchwork of different nations and of peoples who live in that part of the world geographically known as Europe . |
| 28 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 29 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 30 | Wives prepared to report marital rape to the police may well have husbands who fall into this category . |