Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
2 | In other words , there are no revenues included against which we must charge future expenses and there are no expenses against which we must match future revenues : there are no hidden liabilities but at the same time there are no hidden windfalls . |
3 | There is very little incentive at the moment because you are constrained with what you can do with the money . ’ |
4 | Added to which you 'll be taking part in one of the most up-to-date bowling centres in Great Britain . |
5 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
6 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
7 | Both of them are captivated by what I shall call ‘ the myth of the sense behind the sentence ‘ . |
8 | Bills would arrive and I 'd just leave them unopened , frightened of what they 'd say . |
9 | It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do . |
10 | Erm the there is something which I suppose can be said about what you should do , if you 're an N F and a , and a , an a dominant intuitive . |
11 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
12 | Wordsworth 's power as a poet is seen in what he can do with such material , so that after reading Stepping Westward these commonplaces , while retaining universality , are made new for us . |
13 | Er because I do n't believe this company er could be matched in what it can give er to the individual . |
14 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
15 | On Mr. Pegg 's behalf , a further more detailed submission is made to which I shall refer later . |
16 | I had n't really thought about what I could write , just dashed eagerly to the word processor , my mind meandering enjoyably about the £200 prize . |
17 | As the monsoon season ran its usual course in Snowdonia , anybody with any sense fled to warmer climes while the rest of us sat and talked about what we would do if it was n't raining . |
18 | The adult height and width are important facts , armed with which you can plant without crowding or spacing ; if the soil is a well-worked heavy one , allow for extra growth . |
19 | People often say to me how much time have I got in which I can complain about faulty goods ? |
20 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
21 | And perhaps , occasionally , he was frustrated by what he could or could not achieve . |
22 | It was a timid first step as to what , compared with what we ought to be doing . |
23 | The range of restaurants , wine bars , DIY facilities , leisure complexes — compared with what we used to have . |
24 | If the final grade is largely determined by course-work marks , how are you to mark a piece of work completed in a pupil 's first term of his introduction to a subject , compared with what he can do after five or six terms ? |
25 | Unigate 's chief executive , Ross Buckland , said yesterday : ‘ By buying the company before flotation , we reckon we have got a very fair deal , compared with what it would have been after flotation . ’ |
26 | Though the most successful Welsh language programme on S4C , its daily audience of an average 200,000 ( almost half Wales 's Welsh-speaking population ) is a drop in the ocean compared with what it can attract on BBC2 . |
27 | The first is that , since it is difficult for each authority to make its decision within the framework of a general view of social needs and social capacity to pay , the total amount of taxation tends to be raised above what it would be in a more unified system . |
28 | My money is invested in what you can do now . ’ |
29 | Although the use of everyday common-sense beliefs is usually not only unsystematic and inadequate but also often contradictory , if we look more closely at common sense it is likely such explanations of the world are based on what we shall call here ‘ individualistic ’ and/or ‘ naturalistic ’ assumptions . |
30 | Gooch , in Cities of Dreams , postulates a society based on what we can call ‘ mental artefacts ’ ; that is , ideas rather than physical constructions . |