Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In using Brooke-Rose 's discussion of poetic metaphor as the basis for an analysis of how this figure works in novels she wrote in the 1960s , I am not suggesting that there is a necessary relation , historical or logical , between them . |
| 2 | Gentlemen like our good host still believe it 's their business to meddle in matters they do n't understand . |
| 3 | Meyer had his head buried in files he was comparing , apparently oblivious to everything going on around him . |
| 4 | If the access to an up-market development is via a local authority housing estate or area lacking in amenities it may prove more difficult to sell the completed units . |
| 5 | Yet since this book abounds in generalisations I shall retain both the simple distinction between official and actual curriculum and the simple argument that the differences between them are wide and disturbing . |