Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time they try to make sure that no other males get the opportunity to mate with their own female . |
| 2 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
| 3 | Each case turns on its own facts but once the boundary between protectable secrets and general skill and knowledge is crossed the employer can not , even by way of express covenant , restrict the employee 's ability to use those skills once employment has ended ( Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 ) . |
| 4 | However , whilst the decided cases may offer some guidance as to the general approach , their precedent value is limited because each case turns on its own circumstances . |
| 5 | Twenty four parents were living with partners , six were single parents , and the remainder lived with their own parents . |
| 6 | But they insist that the money goes into their own pockets . |
| 7 | Speaking through an interpreter , Mr Usta said : ‘ As far as I can figure it out , one day before the operation the cheque was given by Dr Crockett , it was changed and the money given to me that night . ’ |
| 8 | Then without disclosing how — if he had the money to proceed on his own , he would not now be displaying that same information on Esther 's desk — he pressed her for a response . |
| 9 | Overland says it is to merge the Cipher Model M995 nine-track tape drives and Model T480 3480 cartridge drives with its own line . |
| 10 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 11 | Each author has been allowed the freedom to write in his own style and provides a large set of references promoting further study . |
| 12 | Paradoxically , the world governing body lags behind two of its member federations in implementing a measure recommended by its own specialist committee . |
| 13 | Just 5 minutes from the centre of St Johann , the Park stands in its own gardens by the gondola lift , and close to the summer toboggan run . |
| 14 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 15 | They requested permission to work on their own in a small area immediately outside the classroom , collected paper and felts , decided between them how to take turns to scribe . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems to me that if one sets up a quango and it spends 26% of the money disbursed on its own administration , that is a pretty high percentage . ’ |
| 17 | The most popular work was that which allowed students freedom to work on their own — projects , for example . |
| 18 | It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action . |
| 19 | Two are about to leave Oxford University to work with their former professor — Tony Cheetham — and five other students who have already settled in California . |
| 20 | The French crisis looks set to deepen when an EC commission meeting on Wednesday decides whether the Gatt deal agrees with its own farming reforms . |
| 21 | And then it would n't occur to her that after what had happened , he would have the nerve to go under his own steam . |
| 22 | The answer to that question , in essence at least , was provided nearly thirty years ago , by a perceptive schizophrenic introspecting about our own psychotic experience . |
| 23 | It 's done you no harm to stand on your own feet has it ? |
| 24 | When he walked into the office the next day he found the new proprietor 's considerable bulk squeezed into his own chair , took the point and resigned . |
| 25 | For instance , any award for an idea by an employee relating to their own job or department is liable for tax as the Inland Revenue rule that this is part of an employee 's job specification . |
| 26 | From my discussions with British Rail , I know that it made specific proposals for the diversion of at least four of the crossings and that the Ramblers Association objected to them all . |
| 27 | Much of what we see today dates from their time : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers , two round and two square ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the might circular donjon surrounded by its own moat , and on the east side a great hall and chapel . |
| 28 | Part of the original great tower or donjon survives , but much of what can be seen today dates from the 14th and 15th centuries : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the mighty circular donjon surrounded by its own moat and , on the east side , a great hall and chapel . |
| 29 | Thus it was possible for a Frenchman to hide from a crime committed in his own country by adopting another nationality . |
| 30 | Trading guilds and companies manoeuvred to have their industry organized to their own advantage or allied with the Crown to do so . |