Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , not many business executives or lawyers write satirical novels or plays about their own profession . |
| 2 | The themes centred around the lone legionnaire who has given up his past for the Legion , yet still longs for his former life and forgotten loves , his home and his happiness . |
| 3 | It would actually be competing for development that Selby wants for its own population . |
| 4 | This sensibility for integrating aspects of contemplative with active life is also manifest in the Livre de Seyntz Medecines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster ; in it he writes about his own sense of that mortal sin for which Christ the healer supplies remedies , having beaten death in that tournament where he " turned our sorrow into joy and overcame death with death " . |
| 5 | Whoever cares for his own safety is lost ; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake and for the Gospel that man is safe ( Mark 8:35 ) . |
| 6 | Certainly , those who aim to buy when prices are low and sell when they are high can find plenty of Peps where the unit or share price now stands below its former peak . |
| 7 | As we mention in the section on Concentration , a good time-table of study can take the place of motivation until such motivation develops of its own accord . |
| 8 | The Cardinal 's statement continued : ‘ The question of the ordination of women affects the understanding each Church has of its own identity and of its sacraments and worship . |
| 9 | With a further increase in temperature the rod straightens under its own weight and eventually regains its rubber-like elasticity at slightly higher temperatures . |
| 10 | By s.25 : [ a ] person shall be guilty of an offence if , when not at his place of abode , he has with him any article for use in the course of or in connection with any burglary , theft or cheat . |
| 11 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 12 | History becomes the impossibility between this Scylla and Charybdis — in Lyotard 's terms , it contains within its own project an incommensurable difference . |
| 13 | Words are only arrows pointing in a vague direction ; somewhere there amongst the lights of the horizon is a place where love scintillates in its own domain , the land of ‘ I and Thou ’ , my love . |
| 14 | ‘ Suzie 's always been more amenable to advice from men than she has from her own sex . |
| 15 | Originally a private villa , the Billroth stands in its own park , some ten minutes walk from the centre of St Gilgen . |
| 16 | Once a Norman fortress this huge stone building with turreted towers stands in its own courtyard with the remains of the original moat dating from 1160 now a very pretty and secluded Norman Garden . |
| 17 | A delightful , small hotel at Anse Petit Cour in the north of the island , La Reserve stands in its own cove on a beautiful sandy beach . |
| 18 | The man wrote to the young man 's parents that their son ‘ strikes me as someone who stands in his own light ’ . |
| 19 | The Talmud says , ‘ Happy is he who knows his place and stands in his own place , ’ and Leonard Cohen is such a man today . |
| 20 | She lives in her own world and is very secretive . |
| 21 | where mineral-extracting enclaves still exist , the workforce lives in its own community , a long way from major urban centres . |
| 22 | It will be better to leave that question , together perhaps with questions about the value of larger totalities of activity of which such university education is a part , until after we have considered what value it has in its own right . |
| 23 | Energy efficiency can help in reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere , and scientists can contribute significantly to this by taking a closer look at energy needs in their own working environment — the laboratory . |
| 24 | If you reach this stage , you will probably feel guilty about it , which adds to your own discomfort . |
| 25 | who is never led but stands on his own ground , |
| 26 | The Apostate almost chokes on her own laughter . |
| 27 | Any effect that a change in a gene has on its own replication probability is fair game for natural selection . |
| 28 | In a similar way , social actors need not have any embracing concept or model of what lies beyond their own home ground . |
| 29 | And he wonders at his own sanity when he hears of the wealth of some of his rivals . |
| 30 | ’ You know , ’ she said , ’ I can tell two things from the way everybody looks at me this morning . |