Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I went to Germany with the RAF I found that all the lads used prostitutes . |
| 2 | Oh I mi- , I could possibly might be better if Jeff I think that all these , no these are too big . |
| 3 | The government is entrusted with the task of protecting the lives , liberties and properties of the individual members of the body politic and there is a reading of Locke which I questioned last Tuesday which says that that is all a government can do . |
| 4 | Freud himself thought that some of this work was nearer to myth than to natural science . |
| 5 | However , these defects were largely solved by Litzenberger and Ramaswamy who concluded that risk-adjusted returns are higher for those securities offering higher dividend yields . |
| 6 | To a person more interested in the advance of science he might perhaps have tried to explain what he was after , but with Lucy he perceived that this would not be a success . |
| 7 | Under an act of George I weavers could take their complaints to magistrates , but Temple himself admitted that such recourse would mark a man and reduce his prospects of obtaining work . |
| 8 | The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion . |
| 9 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 10 | The potential for the epidemic to spread is underlined by a survey among black schoolchildren in Cape Town which revealed that 70 per cent of 16-year-olds were sexually active , and 20 per cent had several partners in the past year . |
| 11 | Another angle on psychological differences between blacks and whites is given by Worthy and Markle who argue that white sportsmen do better at self-paced activities , ‘ ones in which the individual responds , when he chooses , to a relatively static or unchanging stimulus ’ , whereas blacks have an edge in reactive activities , ‘ in which the individual must respond appropriately and at the right time to changes in the stimulus situation ’ ( 1970 ) . |
| 12 | Rollin is thus at variance with Regan who argues that all research involving harm to animals , and this includes killing them painlessly , must be stopped ( 1983 : 397 ) : ‘ If nonanimal alternatives are available , they should be used ; if they are not available , they should be sought ’ ( 388 ) . |
| 13 | In ‘ The Hollow Men ’ and Sweeney Agonistes we see that such material had not lain gathering dust . |
| 14 | Innocent 's imposition of an interdict was parried by the archbishop of Toledo who argued that such a sentence would only encourage heresy and the Muslims , but Innocent did not stop trying to break the marriage . |
| 15 | Lord Gardiner himself thought that political views ought not to affect judicial appointments at all , and he pursued this policy during his period of office as Lord Chancellor ( 1964 ) . |
| 16 | Dr Glasser himself believes that this specific susceptibility of the state of mind to mood-altering substances or behaviour in the sufferer from alcoholism may be genetically determined . |
| 17 | This point is further reinforced by Peirce who argued that all language , all inquiry and all knowledge is essentially social in character . |
| 18 | On Jan. 25 , however , Tanjug quoted statements by four refugees from Shkodër who said that anti-Stalinist demonstrations had taken place there on Jan. 11 and 14 , involving up to 7,000 people ; that there had been many arrests ; and that police reinforcements were patrolling the city and the surrounding area . |
| 19 | Arriving at Agheila they discovered that all the aircraft based there left at night , so something else had to be improvised . |
| 20 | In October I reported that British designer Carolyn Quartermaine had landed a top assignment with an internationally known New York-based designer . |
| 21 | On a recent visit to Warsaw I found that many of the street names had been changed during the past year . |
| 22 | Lotus highlights figures from independent market researchers Romtec which indicate that Ami Pro has displaced WordPerfect into third place in the Windows word processor league . |
| 23 | However , Caithness himself stated that this first selection was ‘ in no way a definitive list … |
| 24 | In any case , even the GCC itself recognises that such a defence structure will be inadequate — at least as far as the Gulf is concerned . |
| 25 | Arguments that there was no human author and , consequently , the lists of numbers drawn by the computer were not protected by copyright were rejected by Whitford J. who said that such a claim was as silly as saying that a pen could be the author of a literary work . |
| 26 | On Sunday they heard that some sort of evacuation was taking place at Dunkirk . |
| 27 | In August I revealed that Prime Minister 's son James Major had a £3-an-hour holiday job . |
| 28 | Soon after arriving at Le Court I knew that this was the place for me . |
| 29 | Whilst the peerage was validly conferred , however , the House of Lords itself decided that such a peer had no right to sit , and the object of the exercise was thus frustrated . |
| 30 | These decisions angered many sections of the white community , including de Klerk who said that national symbols had nothing to do with apartheid . |