Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the dubious seaworthiness of our ship , for the first few days of the storm my sense of danger was eclipsed by the exhilaration of at last thundering in the right direction . |
| 2 | Once the mother has made up her mind her firmness of resolve is often communicated to the child . |
| 3 | We had unlimited German labour available , and also at our command their talent for organization , which is rightly seen as a German national characteristic . |
| 4 | The disgust which inheres in desire is not , as the Freudian analysis might suggest , necessarily generated by or focused upon the repressed constituent of the self ; it may be , but what I am pointing to here is an additional structural interdependence of desire and disgust . |
| 5 | ’ Denying to Louise that he is vain ( December 9th , 1852 ) , he distinguishes between Pride and Vanity : ‘ Pride is a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . |
| 6 | Pride is one thing : a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . ’ |
| 7 | Doubtless insiders are writing white papers and politicking their points of view and doubtless Mr Noorda , reputedly a pit bull in business , will have his prevailing view . |
| 8 | When you travel with an air or sea carrier their Conditions of Carriage apply , some of which limit or exclude liability . |
| 9 | These traditions are , in theory , more hospitable than the analytic one to the idea of different points of view , but in practice their point of view has been overwhelmingly male . |
| 10 | ‘ My dress hangs here ’ is her only picture of the period and expresses with sharp irony her sense of outrage at her husband 's glorification of American values and incidentally reveals as much about her own sense of insecurity ( est. $1–1.2 million ; £666,000–800,000 ) . |
| 11 | In view of the disadvantage which being in care all too often represents , that may sometimes mean making a special effort to ensure the quality of education given to children in care . |
| 12 | Ths survival is significantly better ( p<0.01 ) than that of the patients with high grade lymphoma whose probability of survival is limited to 52% . |
| 13 | The stress-strain diagram is shown in figure 13.2(a) , and can be represented in mechanical terms by the model of a weightless spring whose modulus of extension represents the modulus of the material . |
| 14 | Any witness whose attendance in court ought for some sufficient cause to be dispensed with may be ordered ( N 21 ) by the judge or district judge to be examined before an examiner in England or Wales ( Ord 20 , r 13 ) . |
| 15 | To satisfy the demands of their historicist ideologies it is necessary to promote Renaissance as a phenomenon , not a linguistic term whose field of reference is unstable and above all open . |
| 16 | System Dynamics is a methodology whose areas of application are growing rapidly . |
| 17 | I called to mind his letters in Time and Tide ( January/February 1935 ) about A. A. Milne 's views on war and peace . |
| 18 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 19 | Was this engagement his ticket to respectability , and is that why he had accepted it ? |
| 20 | Engineers in managerial positions should therefore recognise that they have enhanced responsibilities in three important respects : the introduction and operation of a proper risk management programme ; the effective discharge of their broader duties , so that they do not themselves become a source of risk ; and in the making of judgements relating tot he tolerability of risk . |
| 21 | Silent , face down in the half-light , the black boy writhes hips and spine , serpentine , oiled , musculature moving as in dance , inviting a cock to complete him , counterpoint his eros of motion with some simpler , maybe brutal , theme . |
| 22 | Likewise , John Newcombe would visualise the sequence from the dressing-room on to the court and the first few games to stem nervousness and condition his reactions in advance . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information on drug shipments and drug seizures from illegal traffic from European countries and from other countries is shared with United Kingdom , European countries and other interested organisations . |
| 24 | It has already made up its mind what kind of literature the Bible is . |
| 25 | He never seems to have made up his mind what kind of book he 's trying to write : a slice of autobiography , a potted history of government-TUC relations , a polemic about union decline , or an extended advertisement for the EETPU 's version of ‘ business unionism ’ . |
| 26 | I was silent , thinking that I must make up my mind what course of action to take . |
| 27 | And when she saw him , she was troubled at his saying , and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be . |
| 28 | Without a sense of rhythm our sense of time is devoid of landmarks . |
| 29 | The best way is to ignore the ring structure and explore the city in chunks that are easy on the feet and brain , keeping in mind your position with respect to the old city plans where it is relevant . |
| 30 | When deciding your goals , you need to keep in mind your level of fitness and choose goals that are realistic . |