Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages that skill and intelligence once gave me are nullified by shop bought electronics and an ’ Ever Ready ’ Power Pack . |
| 2 | By the same token , the public school choice would not be surprised to find that the Labour Party opposition regarded the official unemployment figures as underestimates The arguments that divided them are illustrated in Table 10–2 , which reproduces in a slightly amended form a table that appeared in The Sunday Times ( 6 November 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Often referred to as vegetable dyes , despite the fact that many of them are obtained from animal and mineral sources . |
| 4 | When immigrant children first enter the borough they are sent , if the education department has any doubts about their English , to an assessment centre , and from there a large proportion of them are channelled into reception classes . |
| 5 | And finally , the criminal injuries compensation scheme , to cut the amounts paid to people who are victims of gang rape , to cut the amount paid to people who are victims of child abuse , that shows just how much the Home Secretary cares about the victims of crime , and his other measures show that he 's far more concerned with his own career , with pleasing the Conservative party conference , and with trying to do anything , anything I mean he 's brought in whatever it is , twenty-seven proposals , one or two of them are bound to work , if you throw enough stuff at the fan , some of it usually hits the target . |
| 6 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 7 | So many of them are based on wordplay , puns . ’ |
| 8 | From the list of industries , which of them are connected with agriculture ? |
| 9 | Yet changes which at first seem major or dramatic often fade in significance as parts of them are assimilated into school operation or attention is diverted to newer concerns . |
| 10 | Some of them are run with creche facilities . |
| 11 | Attempts to reduce all the factors to a common denominator through placing a monetary value upon them are riddled with uncertainty . |
| 12 | These knowledge sources and the processes associated with them are shown in Figure 1.2 . |
| 13 | The majority of businesses have less than ten employees and an increasing number of them are turning to IT as a low cost way to improve productivity and recordkeeping . |
| 14 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |
| 15 | Most of them are frozen to death . |
| 16 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 17 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 18 | Some of them are taken by instrumentation but others are eye observations . |
| 19 | Almost all of them are found in regrowth , e.g. species of Cecropia and Piper , where the chewing off of competing plants is important . |
| 20 | The coverages are shown in Fig. 6.3 and the error estimates for them are contained in Table 6.2 . |
| 21 | Many of the mathematical ideas connected with them are described in chapter 5 Water . |
| 22 | Have I been reduced in size ? |
| 23 | Had I been allowed to puddle around on my own , people today might curl their lips at Faldo 's approach . |
| 24 | For the next few months Mr and I are going to home in on a theme for these services . |
| 25 | In that one Paul and I are going into work , alright ? |
| 26 | From an early age Gimson 's interest in buildings was obsessive ; as a young man he was quoted as saying ‘ I am thinking of architecture all the time I am awake . ’ |
| 27 | I am thinking of Xtreegold for file management , wordprocessors that can split screen and pull text from one piece of work to another and finally Windows , the ultimate hop to and go to and transfer stuff to the clipboard and elsewhere too . |
| 28 | I am thinking of prostitution , pornography , the commercialisation of cultural values . |
| 29 | Rather , I am thinking of access to public data bases ( such as Prestel , the Times Network System , and NERIS , this last being a data base of worksheets and such ) ; here too come electronic mail and other forms of electronic communication , such as computer conferring , between departments in different areas or even different countries . |
| 30 | I am thinking of Amnesty International and the Churches . |