Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 2 | But such is Rachael 's devotion to Stephen that when his wife , an alcoholic from whom he has parted company , appears at his lodgings , ill and incapable , Rachael looks after her to spare Blackpool the task of doing so . |
| 3 | FA yesterday and it looks like me getting tickets from them is the same chance like the famous snowball in hell — i might settle for a new video player instead — in fact i still have got almost all of WC'90 on video — pictures from — all — games — and complete games from the 1/8 finals and onwards — including the England-Kamerun game which is quite a favorite . |
| 4 | Clergy can then ‘ do what lies within them to bring people to know God . ’ |
| 5 | The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth . |
| 6 | The central region of the DNA shown corresponds to one met box , and the bases have been labelled along one strand . |
| 7 | But the most obvious fact about the social world is that what happens in it has meaning for the inhabitants . |
| 8 | Geoff Hamilton , with Marion and Paddy Lightfoot , offers this summer ‘ the first gardening quizbook ’ , ( i.e. questions and answers from which to compile quizzes ) , Gardener 's Challenge ( Kingfisher , August , £9.99 , 1 85697 050 7 ) . |
| 9 | Workers react in two ways to this occupational situation which infantilises them : some become bored which results in them becoming accident prone , or they develop hostility against those whom they feel have condemned them to this and withdraw into themselves . |
| 10 | In general it results in their avoiding owls at all costs , but occasionally they turn the tables on the killer bird — the tormented become the tormentors . |
| 11 | As John Honey shows in his Does Accent Matter ? ( 1989 ) Received Pronunciation itself is gradually changing , and there are marked differences between what is socially acceptable in 1991 and the fashionable accents of the 1930s . |
| 12 | I reckon she 's overly keen on coke and spends too much time in clubs , but maybe I 'm just jealous ; my cub-reporter status on the Caley and the triumph-of-miniaturisation salary that goes with it make habits that expensive out of the question . |
| 13 | Later Pip meets him again when Jaggers arranges for him to share rooms with Herbert in Barnard 's Inn . |
| 14 | All our experience of " material objects " , in the final analysis , reduces to our having series of similar , or similarly connected , perceptions . |
| 15 | The tight regional labour market for secretarial/office skills seems of itself to give rise to agency working . |
| 16 | On a representative theory of perception , something 's looking white to us consists in our having sensations of white which are excited in us by the object . |
| 17 | ( a ) Children in need Section 20(1) requires every local authority : to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who appears to them to require accommodation as a result of : ( a ) there being no person who has parental responsibility for him ; ( b ) his being lost or having been abandoned ; or ( c ) the person who has been caring for him being prevented ( whether or not permanently , and for whatever reason ) from providing him with suitable accommodation or care . |
| 18 | It was , Mr Furbank comments , ‘ the inspiration of some of his most original and powerful writing ’ : the novels , Rameau 's Nephew and Jacques the Fatalist , neither published in his own lifetime ; also his art criticism , which seems to me to anticipate Proust . |
| 19 | What seems to me to need attention is … [ the ] movement of psychoanalysis away from content ( pre-Oedipal or otherwise ) to a concept of sexuality as caught up in the register of demand and desire . |
| 20 | As I have already intimated , Hirschi 's control perspective seems to me to invite expansion along classical lines , rather than narrowing . |
| 21 | This seems to me to suit Prokofiev 's idiom very well and Béroff 's intelligent virtuosity is a constant source of delight , as is Masur 's accompaniment , fully committed but also notable for careful attention to detail . |
| 22 | But this approach seems to me to contain difficulties of its own , not the least being that each object of knowledge is knowable in more than one of the different ways . |
| 23 | This seems to me to make parody and irony worth understanding more precisely . |
| 24 | Teacher ( in role ) goes to them to seek advice : " Melric , our magician , has lost all his magic ; and we do n't know how to do anything . |
| 25 | Centralised installations are also available similar in principle to the pressure jet installations with a fixed remote suction pump and collection chamber and with a ring main and suction points to which wander hoses may be connected . |
| 26 | Consequently , oligonucleotides in which contacting Gs were mutated ( mutant oligos I and III in Fig. 4A ) were synthesized and used for band-shifting experiments . |
| 27 | Any electric field is affected by how well objects within it conduct electricity . |
| 28 | At a horse show anyone can recognise the horse that is saying , ‘ You 're annoying me ! ’ , by the swishing of its tail ; or the horse that announces to its spurred rider , ‘ You 're hurting my sides ! ’ , by tightened muscles making a clear line along the lower edge of its ribcage ; or the halter horse , taut with anxiety and showing the whites of its eyes , telling all but its insensitive handler that it is afraid ! |
| 29 | Look Graham no-one objects to you having problems — so long as you 're prepared to talk about them |
| 30 | One of the big advantages of larger machines is that they have more expansion slots for you to whack cards and boards into . |