Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to a request from a member we ask a named practitioner ( medical or alternative ) if he or she has evidence of efficacy that meets these criteria and , if not , if he or she is obtaining such evidence . |
| 2 | The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English . |
| 3 | Familiarity can also encourage a mutual sense of trust which enhances the officer 's capacity to detect and control because it encourages self-reporting of deviance . |
| 4 | If a career as a solicitor offers anything , it offers variety of opportunity . |
| 5 | This dualistic position can be detected in the writings of the apostle Paul , a view endorsed by Luther , where the Christian is described as ‘ under law , and yet not under law but grace ; he is a sinner , and yet righteous , he believes as a doubter ; he has assurance of Salvation , yet walks the knife-edge of insecurity . |
| 6 | He has experience of leadership at all levels , as has his possible successor Ashley Metcalfe . |
| 7 | In the event of my death in the near future , he has security of tenure , and my niece , Sara , will have the advantage of his wise counsel . |
| 8 | It 's a blummin beautiful colour — all sort of black with bits of brown in it , and sometimes , in the sun , it looks sort of blue . |
| 9 | It has many of the characteristics of a great ecclesiastical building ; it has vast arches , void spaces , coloured lights , and above all , it has recurrence of ritual . |
| 10 | Roman ornament is a continuation of development from Greek and Etruscan work ; it has solidity of mass and grouping , it is bold and vigorous , magnificent , but often lacks the Greek standard of refinement . |
| 11 | According to the label , it contains bicarbonate of soda . |
| 12 | In literate society , these interlocking conversations go on ; but they are no longer man 's only dialogue ; and in so far as writing provides an alternative source for the transmission of cultural orientations it favours awareness of inconsistency . |
| 13 | It uses extract of apricot which helps to reduce the drying effect sometimes caused by soap . |
| 14 | If ‘ knowledge is power ’ then there is a danger that the system will lose much of its power if it loses control of information about itself . |
| 15 | Pc weeps as he relives horror of shooting |
| 16 | Although this transfer of responsibility makes sense in many ways , it hampers continuity of care for a group of people with long term needs . |
| 17 | Against those iconoclasts who would rid life of all images in the name of religion , he sees repudiation of art as acceptable for the extreme ascetic , but , if universally applied , as starving the spiritual soil of nourishment . |
| 18 | It takes strength of character to admit one needs help . |
| 19 | [ He takes hold of PAMELA . ] |
| 20 | It disappears without trace on the skin and , because it contains hydrogels , highly absorbent substances which hold 1,000 times their weight in water , it reduces evaporation of moisture from the skin dramatically . |
| 21 | He said that he liked a novel when , ‘ it promotes fusion of response between teacher and pupils ’ . |
| 22 | The concept of the basic award in unfair dismissal is akin to that of the redundancy payment , ie it reflects loss of job security . |
| 23 | He lists expression of love through words , touch , spending time together , providing material needs and many others . |
| 24 | In both novels the solution to the problem the heroine faces is harmony through love , yet the outcome is considerably less satisfying in The Sycamore Tree because it entails renunciation of life itself . |
| 25 | It problematises inequality of treatment . |
| 26 | For the north , he finds evidence of village planning by cd.1200 on well-documented estates like those of the Bishop of Durham . |
| 27 | Gestodene is a progestogen in the contraceptive pill Femodene , but work at the King 's College and Royal Marsden Hospitals , London shows that — in a test-tube situation — it inhibits growth of cancer cells . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) If a decision-maker establishes a procedure or practice for the making of decisions , which gives advantages to those affected by them , he creates a legitimate expectation that he will follow that procedure or practice in relation to any particular case , unless or until he gives notice of intention to change the procedure and an opportunity for those affected to make representations : see again Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 408G. ( 3 ) A decision-maker is required to adopt a procedure for decision-making which is fair in all the circumstances . |
| 29 | It gives pride of place , however to the householder , whose order supports the other three . |
| 30 | Then again , it gives clarity of vision : it 's a windscreen wiper across the eyeball . |