Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She values both the child 's self-expression and his respect for authority , work and the like ; she appreciates both independent self-will and disciplined conformity . |
| 2 | There is , of course , much argument about what is ‘ normal ’ , but in general it should mean that every adult person lives in a home of his or her own or with chosen friends or family members , that he or she has daily purposeful occupation , whether in paid employment or not , and that the person has social contacts and interpersonal relationships which are emotionally satisfying . |
| 3 | If she has early latent syphilis there is a 20 per cent chance that the child will be unaffected , and this figure rises to 70 per cent if the mother has late syphilis . |
| 4 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 5 | ‘ So she needs fairly constant care at home . |
| 6 | She gets almost immediate entry and so will live there on her own until J moves in . |
| 7 | She speaks very good French . |
| 8 | She speaks very similar accent . |
| 9 | This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas . |
| 10 | before it goes out front page , and the fifteen promises will no doubt will be noted by all who have an interest in our service . |
| 11 | It represents totally unfair competition , not only to Tennis World but also to Tennis Magazine . |
| 12 | It involves very large client groups ( elderly , physically disabled , and mentally ill people as well as people with learning disabilities ) ; constitutes one of the major tasks of the personal social services ; and it is an arena in which hopes and aspirations have consistently been disappointed ( Walker , 1982 ; Webb and Wistow , 1986 ; Martin , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | In fact , it offers more experimental menu items and store formats than any of its competitors . |
| 14 | The council tax is related to the number of people in a house , but it offers more generous treatment for people such as students , who will not add to the household bill . |
| 15 | He wants to be friends with America because he thinks only American intervention will secure his aims ( he offered in the Gulf war to send 200,000 Sikhs to fight on the American side ) . |
| 16 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 17 | Foucault is correct to identify Cuvier as a central figure in these debates , even if he exaggerates how successful Cuvier 's arguments were at the time . |
| 18 | Whether your hair is naturally curly or permed it needs extra special care to keep it in tip-top condition . |
| 19 | Try ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention ’ or ‘ I love it that you 've asked me to go away — it 's bothering me that I 've got to do this report by Monday . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention . ’ |
| 21 | For example , ‘ Bramley ’ is very difficult to keep small or grow as a cordon as it needs quite different pruning . |
| 22 | The thought was ( and is ) unnerving , and it illustrates how close realism sits to radical analysis , how misplaced the critical stricture that it is merely cosy . |
| 23 | The following list of aesthetic compromises is by no means complete , but it illustrates how early recording artists had to adapt . |
| 24 | He has remarkably little choice of action or initiative if he is going to comply with the flight manual and his company 's operations manual and at the same time carry out an economic flight . |
| 25 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |
| 26 | Though , to be sure , he has not red hair , so he can not plead that excuse . |
| 27 | I think he has more French style than the others . ’ |
| 28 | He has very great merit in many respects . |
| 29 | ‘ Yuri 's problem is that he has very fine hair , ’ said Anthony , carefully snipping feathery layers into the rather worried-looking star 's tresses . |
| 30 | He has very fine hair , resting timidly and lifelessly on his skull . |