Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the main thrust of Kandel 's findings and the theoretical framework within which he set them during the 1970s and 1980s have until recently scarcely been challenged . |
| 2 | ‘ This is difficult to prove , and most archaeologists appear to be totally blind to the advantages that can be accorded to them through the effective and proper use of the metal detector ’ . |
| 3 | But to me , who had grown up without knowing want , the prosperity which accrued around them through the fifties and early sixties was of little account . |
| 4 | Sex had brought them together , bound them through the difficult and dangerous years when he was actively opposing the authorities . |
| 5 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 6 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 7 | The letter acknowledges me as a mature and responsible individual , always paying my credit-card account on time . |
| 8 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 9 | It struck me as an intelligent and fair system which had the merit of being open and above-board and easily comprehensible . |
| 10 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |
| 11 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 12 | and trading with them as a happier and satisfied customer . |
| 13 | It 's supported by our local M P , so I believe , well it 's okay , minutes of the previous meeting which was held on the twelfth of October , and I 'll sign them as a true and accurate version . |
| 14 | Yet the prevailing treatment of women workers defines them as a particular and different sub-group of the general category ‘ workers ’ ( this parallels the role they are assigned in the study of deviance ) . |
| 15 | To regard them as a formal but irrelevant accoutrement of educational reform would be a severe managerial mistake . |
| 16 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 17 | Their bosses view them as no more than glorified typists and they are denied career opportunities . |
| 18 | Er Lot number three Lot number three the Canton trays there we are there we 've got a sample showing for you Lot number three , there are seven of them in the Lot all seven of them for a hundred and fifty pounds at one hundred and fifty , sixty , seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty , forty , sixty two eighty I 'm offered two hundred and eighty pounds you 're on three hundred for you sir three hun three twenty three fifty , three eighty go to four hundred four twenty four fifty four eighty five hundred and fifty and you bet against you both now five hundred and fifty is offered against you both now , five fifty five hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 19 | They were trying plug them for a hundred and fifty thousand were n't they ? |
| 20 | I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish . |
| 21 | ‘ The traditional way to eat peas is to buy them separately and put salt and vinegar on them for a sweet and sour taste . ’ |
| 22 | If in future , however , reporting of each estimate is extended to include descriptive profiles of quality of life — that is , health states and the valuations placed on them for the new and comparison treatment — then this may enhance credibility and allow reworking in alternative settings . |
| 23 | And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev . |
| 24 | The Scottish Typographical Circular reported of this conflict that " people are beginning to see that making women printers … will only unfit them for the active and paramount duties of female society " . |
| 25 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 26 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 27 | The main target is striped dolphins , whose migration paths ( arrowed ) take them past the southern and eastern coastlines of Japan every year . |
| 28 | A resolution proposed at the 1912 National Union Conference tells the whole story ; originally the resolution approved , " the candidature of Unionist working men and earnestly recommends the allocation to one of them of a safe and suitable seat at some by-election in the near future , as evidence of the reality of the movement " . |
| 29 | Only three well-executed monuments have been identified as by Stanley , all of them of the 1740s and obviously reminiscent of those by Scheemakers . |
| 30 | Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question . |