Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 2 | Oh yes , er yes they were , they were er of course there was a great divide there I mean between the Liberals I mean they were the only two parties in those days . |
| 3 | The implements available here for cleaning were as many and as varied in colour and smell as the places which I had to clean . |
| 4 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 5 | Some are difficult to grow under cultivation because of their natural habitat 's different climatic , soil or aspect requirements , but some grow like the weeds they often are in their native land . |
| 6 | So up I 'd get , wellies on , anorak over nightie , and stump up the steps which led to the sluice to start work . |
| 7 | Conventional gestures are valuable not only because they often appear in the epics themselves , but also because they are universally recognised as a means of communication in real life and have been used on the stage since the earliest days of the theatre . |
| 8 | In some societies parents do select the marriage partner for their children , but we have very little say in the partners our children choose , however strongly we may feel on the subject . |
| 9 | And to provide the same information to shareholders and competitive bidders as they provide to the banks which are coming up with the funding . |
| 10 | On the technical side , the outcome may well be some way from what would be expected of perfect contestability , even if the assumptions approximate to the conditions I have outlined . |
| 11 | In the case of a company , for example , independent auditors report to the shareholders their opinion on the truth and fairness of published financial statements . |
| 12 | Dr Cunningham said : ‘ The important thing is for Neil to stay on as leader of the party and build on the gains we have made in this election . ’ |
| 13 | As we have seen , culture permeates the whole of life and has a profound influence on the meaning which people attach to the messages they hear , the way they make decisions and the social and institutional structures which they build around their creeds and values . |
| 14 | The return system , we , we say to the girls they must come back but they 're to be incorporated within the round . |
| 15 | To acknowledge this rule should thus have the double advantage of eliminating any appearance of royal partiality in selecting a Prime Minister on these occasions , and of ensuring that the parties obtain the leaders they want by the methods they want . |
| 16 | Many students find it useful to spend two or three minutes drawing a key words map for the questions they intend to answer . |
| 17 | It 's only a very short walk down , if you walk through the shops you do n't have to go all the way down , you can actually come , just walk past that shop and go down the middle , and you come out through the car park . |
| 18 | We all worry about the things we can not alter . |
| 19 | It is impossible to describe an organization in behaviour terms ( i.e. processes ) other than momentarily because the processes are always changing ; but when we speak of the processes we freeze that dynamic interaction for a single moment , take a picture , and know that a moment later the picture will be different . |
| 20 | After their term they never speak of the mysteries they have witnessed . |
| 21 | Developments of this type are essential if Stirling is to retain parity with competitor institutions and benefit from the opportunities which the new technologies create . |
| 22 | Then as you start to make the point you 'll find your hands will come up naturally and bend from the elbows it sounds crazy to say but if if you suddenly go coo I 've got everything in me pocket but |
| 23 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
| 24 | Resistance to linguistic change is related to the way people think of language as a fixed point in the flux of experience , and cling to the certainties they feel are embodied in language . |
| 25 | We cling to the symbols which give our life meaning and help us in answering this question . |
| 26 | And sometimes listen to the birds you know , the birds start early do n't they ? |
| 27 | He says if people had listen to the voices who were calling for him to be locked up then he would n't have had this chance to show an improvement . |
| 28 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 29 | The category into which particular losses are put will depend on the value we put on the interests which the governmental action in question has interfered with , weighed against the value we put on the end which the governmental action was designed to serve . |
| 30 | Here , the outputs depend on the states they had previously that is , Q = 1 , if S was 1 previously . |