Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 2 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 3 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 4 | Since 1977 the computational analysis of English has developed into my major research occupation . |
| 5 | However , the sex allocation theory that Eric Charnov has developed in his embracing monograph has further implications . |
| 6 | Man has to go through his personal exploration and final mastery of his inferno . |
| 7 | He has to see with his own eyes that the object he takes to be a rough piece of hemp , destined to choke the life out of him , is in fact a string of priceless pearls . |
| 8 | Here Dr Keep , 50 , tells of the real-life horrors he has witnessed in his long career . |
| 9 | I I I do n't think it needs to go to anybody other than Peter really . |
| 10 | Molly Scrutton was invited to teach at a KFA Training Course in Thorpe and she has taught at our own Rallies in Kent and Essex earlier in the year . |
| 11 | This is not the first time golf has stumbled on its projected step into the 21st century . |
| 12 | Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib . |
| 13 | Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib . |
| 14 | Vic Wilcox asks Brian Everthorpe to stay for a meeting he has arranged with his technical and production managers . |
| 15 | Hollywood 's golden girl , Julia Roberts , has fallen off her high heeled shoes with her latest starring vehicle . |
| 16 | Since the 1970s , in common with the rest of the industrial world , it has fallen to its lowest level ever recorded . |
| 17 | Underlying earnings growth has fallen to its lowest level for almost 25 years and economy-wide productivity has increased , helping push non-oil exports to record levels . |
| 18 | In the UK , beer production has fallen to its lowest level for 20 years and distilling production has been cut back dramatically . |
| 19 | The inflation rate has fallen to its lowest in twenty-five years to stand at one point seven per cent . |
| 20 | Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year . |
| 21 | And opinion polls show the number of voters satisfied with the Government 's management of the country has fallen to its lowest level since November 1990 . |
| 22 | AFTER one of the longest marriages in showbusiness , Petula Clark has parted from her French-born husband Claude Wolff . |
| 23 | NOVELIST Martin Amis , 44-year-old son of writer Kingsley Amis , has parted from his wealthy American wife Antonia Phillips after ten years of marriage , today 's Daily Mail reported . |
| 24 | When the capital stock has adjusted to its new steady-state level , the rise in the gross rate of return is just enough to offset the tax , and it is the wage rate that is reduced . |
| 25 | I would like to thank for the enthusiasm and commitment she has given to her ante-natal classes and I know that past ‘ students ’ will have been greatly reassured during their pregnancies by , appreciated her teaching and enjoyed her sense of humour . |
| 26 | Set in a slum in Islington , North London , it showed the divisions in a working-class family where the boozing bully of a father resents the independence that the Welfare State has given to his three children . |
| 27 | Fighting , he says , is ‘ the real , highest , honestest business of every son of man ’ and he advises ‘ those young persons whose stomachs are not strong , or who think a good set-to with the weapons which God has given to us all , an uncivilized , unchristian , or ungentlemanly affair , just skip this chapter at once , for it wo n't be to their taste ’ . |
| 28 | In short , the older generation not only has given by its paid and unpaid labour in the past ; it continues to give as well as take in the present . |
| 29 | Australia can not claim that it is unaware of the uncertainty about the legal status of Indonesia 's assertion of jurisdictional authority in East Timor and the off-shore waters , and has relied upon its own determination of legality . |
| 30 | Out along the railway lines between 1880 and 1930 there developed ‘ a metropolitan corridor ’ , whose history J. R. Stilgoe has traced in his absorbing book of the same title . |