Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Equivalent statutory offences to deal with men who procure women by threat to perform any other sexual acts or who administer drugs or procure for third parties for such purposes do not exist .
2 It only works near cities where they have receiver/ transmitters .
3 The United Kingdom 's policy is to make charges only in difficult cases or where the foreign country concerned makes a disproportionate number of requests or itself imposes charges .
4 As well as monitoring haulier performance , we initiated many projects where we knew savings could be made .
5 They began to meet in private houses where they read sermons and prayed together .
6 You do n't let players get to the end of their contracts or you get peanuts for them .
7 ‘ I 'd do those clubs where they served chicken in a basket .
8 Now they 've gone off to other groups handing out food , like Food for Work and the Mothers ' Clubs where they do weaving and knitting and things like that . ’
9 I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets .
10 He suggests that RNA was first used for purely structural purposes , as oil drillers use tannins or we use soap and detergents .
11 Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ?
12 The the lists that we get range from mediocre to pretty good to excellent .
13 It was only after being mobbed by newsmen that she showed emotion .
14 Bats may even use the sensations that we call colour for their own purposes , to represent differences in the world out there that have nothing to do with the physics of wavelength , but which play a functional role , for the bat , similar to the role that colours play to us .
15 Nevertheless , it is noteworthy from the annotation of their books that they use translations wherever possible ( as indeed I do myself , life being as short as it is ) .
16 In the event of circumstances arising under 1 or 2 above which require the Insurers to notify the Society of the reduction or cancellation of cover the Insurers shall during the period from such reduction or cancellation until ten days after notification of the Society indemnify the Society against losses to the same extent as if cover had not been reduced or cancelled and if the Society shall within seven days of notification by the Insurers inform the Insurers that it wishes cover to continue on the same terms as if it had not been reduced or cancelled the Insurers shall indemnify the Society against losses on such terms for such period not exceeding six months as the Society shall specify and the Society shall be responsible for the payment of premium for such cover .
17 I gave thanks that I had time and energy to simply enjoy and absorb .
18 It is from these uncertain interstices that there emerge Fanon 's challenges to Enlightenment ‘ Man ’ , and indeed to the very idea of an essential human subject ; Bhabha finds in Fanon a powerful and subversive sense of identity as involving a split , precarious , contradictory relation to the Other , the upshot of which is a radical ambivalence , destructive but also potentially empowering .
19 That is , the critics assert that there is significant inequality between men and women , and that for a woman to be married to a man does not mean that she gains all the privileges that he has access to .
20 They knew that they would be pursued by the Dragoons so they posted lookouts on Loudoun Hill and other vantage points .
21 This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle .
22 In order to avoid this obviously ridiculous result , the German scientist Max Planck suggested in 1900 that light , X rays , and other waves could not be emitted at an arbitrary rate , but only in certain packets that he called quanta .
23 I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got .
24 ‘ The Single Market demands that we define Europe , not the UK , as our domestic market and that we make it as easy for a customer in Turin , Munich or Nice to buy from us as one in Coventry or London . ’
25 Yeltsin was awarded additional powers on Aug. 21 by the RSFSR Supreme Soviet , which strengthened his position vis-à-vis Gorbachev , and on Aug. 23 , at the RSFSR Supreme Soviet , Gorbachev agreed to Yeltsin 's demands that he sign decrees confirming the measures undertaken by the RSFSR government during the coup , thus making them constitutionally binding .
26 Moreover the statement which follows this , namely that he was learned in both human and divine law , as his letters , registers and decretals demonstrate , must preclude Pennington 's doubts that he studied law and , most especially , his suggestion that a bright young man would have gone to Bologna at this time to study anything other than law .
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28 In the morning I went with Dr Viola to the Academy of Arts and there met Professor Dachauer .
29 Music 24 songs and nothin' to hear Geoff Dyer goes down to the Springsteen river , and finds that it 's dry
30 She did n't hear the screams because there was a roaring in her ears and she lost consciousness , pinned by the car to the lamp post .
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