Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thinks that more images of Black and Asian girls in the media would help to change some of the racist ideas and stereotypes that exist . |
| 2 | But she adds that past hazards to workers making contraceptives and detergents are a warning : ‘ In the past employers did not take the proper precautions . |
| 3 | She says that flat paintings hung on walls are outmoded . |
| 4 | She says that three shops have closed down since Christmas . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't a great trial to us and we did n't sit sobbing in a comer about it , ’ she says although other pupils remember Diana as a ‘ private and controlled ’ teenager who did not wear her emotions on her sleeve . |
| 6 | She estimates that these actions would enable the company to sell 5,800 pairs of trousers each month . |
| 7 | She argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities can be seen at their best in situations involving intentions , motives , or purposes — situations which make human sense . |
| 8 | Drawing on the re-evaluation of emotion characteristic of contemporary feminist theory and practice , she argues that feminist conceptions of emotion constitute a critique of dualist conceptions of mind found in much Western philosophy in the English-speaking world and elsewhere . |
| 9 | Sharon defended the decision , she argues that few companies have the resources to undertake the hefty capital investment needed . |
| 10 | She claims that two years later pupils began taunting her about her weight both in the playground and the classroom which reduced her to tears . |
| 11 | Often a mother can understand her daughter 's needs , if not in detail at least in broad terms , and at the same time she knows that these needs are in conflict with traditional honour and respectability . |
| 12 | She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided . |
| 13 | While the sport is in its infancy she believes that separate ladies ' events are needed to promote more participation . |
| 14 | She believes that these changes lie not in what is learned but more in how it is learned . |
| 15 | According to an auction house representative the latter is the more likely outcome , because he doubts whether some countries , for example Italy , will be able to clamp down on smuggling . |
| 16 | According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony . |
| 17 | He thinks that great opportunities lie ahead , but vested interests , built on the status quo , are trying to keep them out of reach . |
| 18 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 19 | He thinks that expanding opportunities , especially in manufacturing , meant that in some districts the earnings of women and children were able to double family income — perhaps enough to add the extra 150,000 households Eversley considered were needed to explain the leap in home demand between 1750 and 1780 . |
| 20 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 21 | John Pople , like the rest of the quantum community , is conscious of the shortcomings of quantum mechanics and he thinks that exact solutions to the Schrödinger equation for many-electron systems are unlikely to appear for many decades . |
| 22 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 23 | He supposes that some frogs are sitting on the coping stones of a circular lily pond . |
| 24 | It concludes that damaging levels of sulphur are deposited on 75 per cent of all European forestry , with the most severe impact occurring in those eastern countries which were once communist . |
| 25 | Indeed there were no significant accuracy differences between driving instructors and 13-year-olds with no driving experience ; he concludes that such judgments are based on general experience about the nature of moving objects . |
| 26 | He concludes that these systems show a number of deficiencies in dealing with UDC numbers unless written with UDC in mind . |
| 27 | ‘ It looks like different rules apply . |
| 28 | a ‘ cross-curricular ’ view focuses on the school : it emphasises that all teachers ( of English and of other subjects ) have a responsibility to help children with the language demands of different subjects on the school curriculum : otherwise areas of the curriculum may be closed to them . |
| 29 | Yet he accepts that these countries need small , defensively equipped armies that could make a potential attacker think twice . |
| 30 | He accepts as-if legal rights in that spirit and for reasons of strategy will make mostly the same decisions a conventionalist would make when statutes are plain or precedents crisp and decisive . |