Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth . |
| 2 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 3 | So of course I hope that Iran will use what influence it has to get those hostages released . ’ |
| 4 | Adams ' simple philosophy is also applied to the equipment he uses to get that gritty , hard edged sound . |
| 5 | I drift back indoors , in case she decides to go all the way and tip me over the edge while she 's at it . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Unix International is being very secretive about an announcement it expects to make this week that it hopes will propel the industry further along the path of unity . |
| 7 | In the following article he attempts to convey some of his enthusiasm for his pastime . |
| 8 | Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people . |
| 9 | ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor . |
| 10 | Since the teacher has already used a stick as a sign of Beowulf 's authority he decides to give this additional prominence by making it the object to be retrieved from under the chair . |
| 11 | In addition it wishes to thank all the other Trustees : Richard Baker , OBE ; W Grant Cochrane ; Dr Philip Ledger , CBE ; Robert Tear , CBE , and the Trust 's administrators , the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland . |
| 12 | M. He tries to construct some sort of reality in his life , some sort of decency . |
| 13 | I also like the area because of its prehistoric relics , abundance of wildflowers and , on a more mundane level , because in my experience it seems to get more than its fair share of decent weather . |
| 14 | Mr Clark 's job is to cut the government 's £50 billion deficit and one way he plans to do that is to spread VAT around more widely . |
| 15 | And here there 's potentially big trouble , because the way he wants to do that is by taxing the Copts more . ’ |
| 16 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 17 | If the hon. Gentleman goes to France — a country he seems to admire more than ours — he will find that it has introduced a price formula that is far less tough than ours on BT because it knows that its nationalised industry would find it difficult to match the performance of BT . |
| 18 | That 's the only type of animal he gets to ride these days . ’ |
| 19 | But the language she uses to describe this process demonstrates her parodic attitude toward it . |
| 20 | I wonder if she has yet worked out that for every douse she has to pull less load ; probably not , or she would be pissing on the wood . |
| 21 | Norman Lamont delivers his budget and tells the House he wants to spend more time with his family . |
| 22 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 23 | The EPA has received considerable criticism concerning the length of time it takes to set such emission standards . |
| 24 | Quite apart from introducing the problem of just how you get the document to the bureau in the first place ( we know of people who have extra hard disks for just this purpose ) the time it takes to run such a document through an imagesetter can be significant in the extreme . |
| 25 | At the same time it aims to devote more resources to special training needs . |
| 26 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 27 | Indeed , when a male is following a female at this time he seems to produce this ‘ chuntering ’ sound almost continuously . |
| 28 | In fact it tends to generate some very discordant results . |