Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we perceive or what another species perceives ? |
| 2 | For example , in India , graduate schools of social work are a major training resource for the social welfare services but some observers suggest that their educational approach might not be congruent with local needs and might not be making their best contribution to the nation 's social welfare and social development goals . |
| 3 | Our investigations suggest that its natural habitat has been hit be the building of a dam — but surely it has been commercially bred ? |
| 4 | The stage directions ( " ANDERSON is caught like a rabbit in the headlights " ) suggest that his initial surprise is betrayed to the audience by his physical reaction . |
| 5 | ‘ Today 's events suggest that my future movements could be uncertain , ’ he told her . |
| 6 | Indeed , people often report that their early sex lives were relatively unrewarding . |
| 7 | I shall vote for the amendment and I hope and expect that my honourable friends will do likewise . ' |
| 8 | We expect that our median time to this decision will be less than eight weeks , and we have , in exceptional circumstances , peer reviewed papers and published them within a fortnight of submission . |
| 9 | Choreographers who do not adhere strictly to the old conventions of court etiquette realise that their total design will flow more easily because their dancers ' behaviour will appear more spontaneous and natural . |
| 10 | It only works if you realise that your own extension number is going to be vacant at the time , if somebody 's using it then it wo n't work , alright , so if you try and transfer a call , then you must make sure that the extension number you 're accessing is free . |
| 11 | I realise that my hon. Friends who represent constituencies in other parts of the country are still waiting to hear something that was implied during the passage of the Bill . |
| 12 | The Liverpool boss has told Dons ' chairman Sam Hammam that he Centre-back Scales remains Souness ' priority , the Reds boss having snapped up Nottingham Forest midfielder Nigel Clough . |
| 13 | The NRA argues that women are the first victims of the collapse of the criminal-justice system , and the message seems to be getting through : gun-dealers say that their fastest-growing market is among women . |
| 14 | They say that their novel sensor can measure the concentration of the active ( - ) -isomer of ephedrine , the sympathomimetic decongestant and bronchodilator , down to a limit of 10 -5.3 mol dm -3 in the presence of common serum ions ( J. Chem . |
| 15 | Many women say that their own mother 's attitude also had a big effect on them . |
| 16 | His critics say that his main contact with his Chicago district is a fond wave from the aeroplane as he travels from Los Angeles to Washington . |
| 17 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 18 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 19 | In the West we readily accept the idea of Third World debt and forget that our present wealth has been built on riches plundered by our colonizing ancestors . |
| 20 | RJB is run by Richard Budge and its main asset is not coal but its Big Cats huge Caterpillar machines with shovels that can pick up tonnes of coal at a time . |
| 21 | However , they have also found themselves caught between what district health authority purchasers with a population based public health focus want and what general practitioners want based on their patients ' needs . |
| 22 | It must be stressed again that there is always a difference between what textbooks say and what real research is actually like . |
| 23 | Those whose business is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake recognise their fellows : there is a community between them which they acknowledge because their mutual cross-fertilisation depends upon the underlying unity of human inquisitiveness in all its manifestations . |
| 24 | Perhaps young people perceive that our current values of the pursuit of wealth and power are hollow and react accordingly . |
| 25 | The defendants contend that their contractual right to indemnity costs entitles them to recover or retain all costs actually incurred save only those that are incurred otherwise than bona fide or are incurred for an improper motive . |
| 26 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 27 | The best tip in using fats like butter , margarine or their lower-calorie alternatives such as Outline or St Ivel Gold is to weigh out half an ounce or an ounce each morning and make that your ready-calorie-counted ration for the day — saves a lot of fiddling around with small quantities . |
| 28 | Trust that your inner self knows where to take you . |
| 29 | I trust that my inner teacher and my inner self are creating the perfect relationship for me . |
| 30 | I trust that my hon. Friend will agree that co-operation between member states of the European Community is particularly desirable when considering the provision of help to those most in need . |