Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
| 2 | She describes well the privileges attendant on maleness , as well as the hazards and horrors awaiting certain groups of men — notably poor , black men on welfare in the US since Reagan , and gay men in the era of AIDS . |
| 3 | The Second Fairy brings Grace and dances slightly faster in such a way that she shows off the lines of her body as it faces forwards and then backwards ( the traditional gesture ) . |
| 4 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 5 | She sets out the details of how she feels the patient should be handled , so that the carers and everyone else involved will all help him to move in the same way . |
| 6 | This is done as follows : If the number ‘ one ’ is called she spells out the letters O N E to land on the yellow smartie . |
| 7 | She sorts out the vests trying several against the doll and saying , ‘ It 's only halfway up her ’ . |
| 8 | She 's got a private code book but the point is that only she knows how the symbols , how the manifest and latent relate to each other , because only she can make those associated links . |
| 9 | At the same time it plays down the dangers of pollution . |
| 10 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 11 | One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management . |
| 12 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 13 | But I do n't drink very much — it slows up the reflexes and I play squash and tennis two or three times a week . ’ |
| 14 | He ladles out the contents of the pot while I am wondering if the laibon thinks it was a handy way to get rid of a rival . |
| 15 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 16 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 17 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |
| 18 | Like a detective displaying the only clues in a case in which he has become personally involved , he holds out the croci with a shrug of quiet resolve . |
| 19 | And as he tells the story of one Irish politician who was emblematic of the past — Fianna Fáil TD Sean Doherty — he strips away the layers of fiction and delusion underpinning both Doherty and his critics to touch the pulse of an Ireland distorted by the rhetoric of the newsroom and debating chamber . |
| 20 | The county 's chief constable , who heads a national committee on crime , says he has n't the resources to cope . |
| 21 | But , because it tones up the muscles and firms the body , you may well lose inches . |
| 22 | Then they are inside , waiting while he scrapes home the bolts . |
| 23 | When he scrapes back the bolts I wince . |
| 24 | Reality overtakes it and it has n't the reserves to claw back . |
| 25 | It 's o onl only a thought anyway , we just , as I say we 're just erm we 're mulling it over and it has n't the jobs have n't even come up yet , but erm it 's , it 's it 's a means to a |
| 26 | Worthy though that organisation 's aims may be , it has neither the resources nor the authority to undertake the vital work which the United Nations has given it . |
| 27 | The college can not justify the use of its facilities , let along expand its activities , as it has neither the resources or required support facilities . |
| 28 | It is , however , worth stressing what Jessop has said in support of his own neo-Marxist approach to the analysis of power and the state , because it emphasises both the strengths and weaknesses of the Marxist school of writings : ‘ an adequate theoretical analysis of the state [ and power ] must consider not only economic determinations but also those rooted in the distinctive organisation of the state as well as in the social division of labour between officialdom and people ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ It mangles up the clothes , she says . |
| 30 | He fills up the streams and the paths , like veins |