Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the tests applied are sufficiently broad to catch material which encourages the use of dangerous drugs or which advocates criminal violence . |
| 2 | For someone suffering from addiction there is no such thing as free choice : he or she gets unconditional damage from the addictive use of drugs or alcohol . |
| 3 | If the sociologist is present at the moment of speech-production , whether as observer or interviewer , then he or she plays some part in the creation of the dialogue . |
| 4 | The marine invertebrate keeper will encounter more uninvited guests than other hobbyists if he or she uses living rock to decorate their tanks . |
| 5 | See that your client initials all alterations to any document executed , and that he or she signs any plan attached to it — this being unnecessary , however , if the plan is drawn on the actual document . |
| 6 | Probably the most accurate statement would be that a person intends to kill if it is his or her purpose to kill by the act or omission charged , or if he or she foresees that death is practically certain to follow from that act or omission . |
| 7 | He or she brings good sight and the beginnings of visual discrimination . |
| 8 | The necessity for longer periods with individual readers has begun to affect the organisation of reading in the classroom ; the teacher finds that he or she needs more time . |
| 9 | With the help of 106 pairs of identical twins , Dr Colin Johnston and colleagues at King 's College Hospital and st Bartholomew 's Hospital in London showed that the risk of developing diabetes is far greater if a person has both DR3 and DR4 than if he or she has either antigen alone ( British Medical Journal , p 286 , vol 253 ) . |
| 10 | If your child is under 16 , he or she still has the right to consent to or refuse an HIV test if the doctor feels he or she has sufficient maturity and understanding . |
| 11 | In saying that the power exists we were doing no more than to reaffirm the unlimited nature of the court 's inherent jurisdiction over minors , a jurisdiction which empowers and may require the court to override the wishes of a minor , even if he or she has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 12 | Where the licensing board decides to hold a hearing as mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) above : ( a ) the clerk of the board shall serve on the holder of the licence , not less than 21 days before the hearing , a notice that the board proposes to hold a hearing , specifying the complaint and the grounds upon which suspension of the licence is sought ; ( b ) the clerk of the board shall give notice of the hearing to the complainer ; ( c ) any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act may , not less than 7 days before the hearing , lodge notice with the clerk of the board that he or it wishes to be heard in support of suspension of the licence specifying the grounds on which he or it seeks such suspension , an any such notice shall be intimated by such person to the holder of the licence ; ( d ) the board shall not order suspension of a licence without hearing the holder thereof unless after receiving due notice of the hearing the holder fails to appear . |
| 13 | If judicial review is seen as going further and being concerned with the protection of groups as well as individuals , standing rules should only require that the applicant show that he , she or it shares some interest with others . |
| 14 | Just imagine what a seven foot gauge ‘ King ’ or ‘ Castle ’ , built out to the full loading gauge , could have achieved or what speeds modern diesel and electric seven foot trains might attain ! |
| 15 | That has made their tours very long and everyone needs enormous stamina and commitment . |
| 16 | A rich combination of women 's cultural activities , featuring performance poetry , dance from Lucia Walker and company , some of the life-size figures from the photographic exhibition ‘ Just the Job ’ and Bea Freeman , who will present her film about ‘ Just the Job ’ in which she also appears and which presents positive role models of Black women and women from other racially minorities , and the work they do . |
| 17 | Disabled and able-bodied children can enrol on the course , which lasts for two hours each Saturday for six weeks and which offers expert tuition . |
| 18 | In simplified form , their model consists of the following three equations : where is the rate of growth of the money stock in country , is a variable , the value of which is known at the end of the previous period and which influences monetary growth ; α i and β i are coefficients for country i ; and are normally and independently distributed random errors , with zero means and variances and respectively ; and is a constant . |
| 19 | Too often pupils are put off by material which is dull , linguistically unsuitable , and which bears little resemblance to the colourful storybooks they are used to . |
| 20 | One particular aspect of the economic life of Israel which has received great attention in the history of the Church and which needs further expansion is the prohibition on usury . |
| 21 | Over the page Chair , within er , those totals there are a number of proposals for reductions in c certain areas of spending and increases in others , which are in excess of the amount which has been delegated to , er , to the Director to agree , and which needs this Committee 's approval erm , and would then go on to er , Resources Management for , for their agreement . |
| 22 | Such theories take the individual as the starting point ; and the inherent sociality that we are arguing for — and which precludes any form of methodological individualism — is given little or no credence . |
| 23 | Genetic engineering involves the manipulation of DNA , the basic chromosomal unit that exists in all cells and which contains genetic information that is passed on to future generations . |
| 24 | In the early stages , you will want to learn vocabulary that is used frequently , and which has wide usefulness , for example , verbs in English like do , make , give , and generic terms ( common to a whole group or class ) like people , animal , tool , food . |
| 25 | The cDNA contains an open reading frame specifying a protein of M r 39.3K with the structural features of a non-receptor-type protein-tyrosine phosphatase and which has significant amino-acid sequence similarity to a Tyr/Ser-protein phosphatase encoded by the late gene H1 of vaccinia virus . |
| 26 | Another large scale landscape pattern which John Michell has drawn attention to and which has considerable credence is the Circle of Perpetual Choirs , mentioned in the Welsh Treads as being located at Stonehenge , Glastonbury and Llantwit Major . |
| 27 | You can change this field to be any directory to which you have access and which has sufficient quota to accommodate the modules subsequently marked for transfer . |
| 28 | ‘ At this early stage positive intervention , while not easy and which demands sensitive work with child and parent or parent substitutes , can succeed . |
| 29 | There is a large continuous open reading frame which predicts a 723 amino acid protein of molecular mass 81,524 daltons , and which shows extensive homology to human SSRP1 and the mouse T160 protein . |
| 30 | A second principle is that a difficult task ( and nobody doubts that dieting can be very difficult ) is far easier to accomplish if it is broken down into small , manageable pieces . |