Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In many places there were at least elements of spontaneity and although Duiker compares it with Trotsky 's description of the Bolshevik revolution as , for the most part , being a ‘ revolution by telegraph ’ , Khanh says that most places acted without instructions from the Central Committee .
2 Unfortunately , it is decided not to reveal the fact that Johnson is not dead in this video , as this would affect sales of the ten-album box set of his old songs , so Richards thumps him with a Gibson L5 and Johnson finally dies , leaving behind one last blues classic : ‘ Devil Dog On My Trail ’ .
3 I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’
4 I ca n't talk now I have gone so limp and languid and sugary with my flesh stretched and itching , so Crilly carries me to bed .
5 Although history dates it to the Golden Age of Magna Graecia , some of the region 's most glorious monuments date from the time of Byzantium and Norman rule .
6 If experience shows them to be wrong , as proved by hard evidence of a growing mountain of unmet need , their only honest course will be to fight for more resources and resign if unsuccessful .
7 See if Washington likes you after that … . ’
8 They 'll shatter if Suragai pulls it at full stretch . ’
9 Yeah , mi mind you , though , if Pete does it with everyone , then it 's a change to what 's been going on usually , it would be nice for a change .
10 And if Robin gets it in the neck I shall get it in the neck and I shall be getting it in the neck because of you !
11 If thoo moves 'em from 'is care , you 'll breed resentment .
12 If X sells it by dealing with the documents of title , then delivery occurs when he transfers the bill of lading to the buyer , irrespective of whether the carrier attorns , section 29(4) .
13 The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level .
14 It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies .
15 Lennox has not yet been hit in his 21 fights and if Razor gets him with that left smash , it 's goodnight . ’
16 And so , through the link , I receive an impression of Ace 's thoughts , if Pool channels them to me . ’
17 If motherhood includes them in the community of women , poor parenthood also excludes them from the public culture of their own generation .
18 If nervousness prevents you from participating in events , you may feel isolated and mistrusted by others .
19 If Garda reminds you of some of the better Mediterranean resorts you 've visited , its nightlife will nicely reinforce that view !
20 The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them .
21 That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ?
22 Legal issues are ‘ given ’ Gould argues because Parliament intends them to be decided by the ordinary courts .
23 This appears reactionary because Freud states it in such general , ahistorical terms .
24 We know that Stein had designed an escapement action by 1777 because Mozart describes it in a letter of that year .
25 There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being .
26 It should be collected primarily because government needs it for its own businesses . ’
27 While it can not be compulsory for your child to be involved in Compact it is reasonable to assume that most young people would wish to be involved since Compact supports them in achieving standards of attainment and behaviour that schools are striving to raise .
28 In ( 14 ) her mother uses Creole ( and this is very clearly intended to be a direct quote , even a send-up , of her mother 's refusal ) , while Valerie answers her in London English .
29 For example , if the only way to be a subject is to be constituted by the existing ISAs , how are we to explain the fact that a theorist such as Connolly is so convinced of the necessity of intentional subjecthood , while Althusser views it as a contingency ?
30 WMGO holds the account in the UK , while BBDO holds it in Italy .
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