Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Told you about her having that dish and it went funny . |
| 2 | The question then would be how unions assessed the costs and benefits and whether they would want to pressure management to bear this cost in order that their members could enjoy the benefit of higher job satisfaction — possibly at the expense of their receiving lower wages . |
| 3 | As a consequence , many women are reliant on their male partner 's pension scheme to reduce the likelihood of their experiencing financial hardship in old age . |
| 4 | Back in the BBC studios there came next some interesting telephone interviews with the press and public relations offices of DIY superstores on the subject of their considering adding coffins to their other self-assembly furniture . |
| 5 | I loved the sadness of it and the staginess … and the tragedy of their loving each other so much that they could not be happy without each other or even manage to make anyone else happy , despite all their niceness and good intentions . ’ |
| 6 | The mothers may not have met in years , if at all , in spite of their knowing each other 's family history . |
| 7 | Equally , governments ' ability to enforce subsequent agreements , will depend both on the existing efficiency and administrative capacity of local States , and on the legitimacy of their taking positive action to defend the global environment , in the eyes of local interest groups . |
| 8 | No England team have ever gone beyond the last eight in a World Cup played abroad , and the significance of their seeding this time will only become clear after tomorrow 's draw . |
| 9 | No England team have ever gone beyond the last eight in a World Cup played abroad , and the significance of their seeding this time will only become clear after tomorrow 's draw . |
| 10 | The church would be regarded as a charity , and whereas charities are granted exemption from income tax and CGT under the provisions of s 505 Taxes Act 1988 , it does not extend to any profits the charity earns as a result of its undertaking any activities that may be considered ‘ an adventure in the nature of a trade ’ . |
| 11 | It does not include an articulated trailer used as a store despite its having electric power , steps up to it , and lockable shutters : Norfolk Constabulary v Seekings [ 1986 ] Crim LR 167 . |
| 12 | • If your child has stomach pain or is vomiting , hold him so there is no risk of his inhaling any vomit . |
| 13 | However , the ambit of the Act is extended by s13 which provides that to the extent that the Act applies the exclusion or restriction of liability , it also applies to clauses which : ( a ) make " any liability or its enforcement subject to restrictive or onerous conditions " , such as time limit clauses requiring notification of claims , or commencement of proceedings , within a limited time ; ( b ) exclude or restrict " any right or remedy in respect of the liability " , such as clauses : ( i ) excluding the right of a buyer to reject goods , terminate a contract or exercise a right of set-off , or ( ii ) requiring a customer to accept repair or replacement from the supplier ; ( c ) subject " a person to any prejudice in consequence of his pursuing any right or remedy " ; ( d ) exclude or restrict any rules of evidence or procedure , such as clauses : ( i ) making certificates of quality conclusive evidence that goods correspond with the contract , ( ii ) making one party 's record of a transaction conclusive evidence of the facts recorded , ( iii ) requiring certain evidence in order to obtain particular remedies — eg " no refunds without receipt " . |
| 14 | At the time Pete was fifty , making the challenge of his biking this wilderness more meaningful than my personal quest . |
| 15 | Observing his success , and that of his Talkin Loud labelmates , the Young Disciples and Incognito , many companies have responded with their own signings . |
| 16 | I 've seen evidence of his denouncing racial prejudice in others , and it greatly impressed me . |
| 17 | The dogmas of his consubstantiality with the Father and of his possessing two natures in one person , can only mislead us if they are taken as objective , factual descriptions of the constitution of his being . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose there 's no chance of your bringing any food some time is there ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Is n't there any chance of our getting better planes , sir ? ’ |
| 21 | ( Moreover , the very fact of our taking that look can , as Werner Heisenberg pointed out , anyway affect the behaviour of the particle concerned . |
| 22 | In the event of our cancelling this order as to all or any of the goods and/or the work covered thereby we shall be entitled to purchase from a third party a like quantity of goods of similar description and quality , or a reasonable alternative thereto , bearing in mind our need to take delivery of the goods by the date specified overleaf , or to contract with a third party to perform work of a similar description and quality , and in that event you shall be liable to reimburse to us on demand all expenditure incurred by us in connection with our said cancellation , including any increase in the price over that stated overleaf . |
| 23 | Apathy occurs as a result of our suppressing negative emotions and feelings , not being able or prepared to deal with them and so letting them accumulate in our unconscious mind . |
| 24 | Robin McEwen was also behind my making some money on the horses . |
| 25 | Can you see a young man with a background like his taking any interest in a girl from Whitechapel ? ’ |
| 26 | Unlike the single line delta with its articulating leading edges that pivot about the cross-spar joint , the second generation stunters with cross-spars fore and aft introduced the rigid frame.As the spine retained the sail on the neutral datum centreline , the sail pattern was made larger than the actual frame plan in order to obtain the conical camber which is the characteristic of the Rogallo design . |
| 27 | Of course , my attitude may stem from my having certain beliefs , but these beliefs are not part of what is actually expressed by the sentence , and do not pertain to that which someone else must share with me , in order for it to be logically proper for him to assent to my sentence . |
| 28 | ‘ My work , ’ he says , ‘ depends upon my having some kind of … depth . |
| 29 | I merely note that other European countries have found an alternative way of living which , as it happens , for whatever reason , has resulted in their enjoying higher standards of living than on the whole do EEC members . |
| 30 | Since dictionaries are in fact prescriptive , whatever they may claim , there is no point in their including non-prestige usages and words like fuck which everyone knows the meaning of ( though the Oxford English Dictionary did finally capitulate and put fuck in , as a gesture toward inclusive scholarship ) . |