Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 2 | My husband wants me to have anal sex , but I find it revolting and painful . |
| 3 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 4 | But the gas also causes them to grow extra arms and legs ( at a rate for the average adult male Vascar of one limb every two months , slightly longer for women and children ) . ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Jones needs a closer and better relationship with the psychiatric services ; she needs to get them to listen to her needs and she also needs someone to provide practical help with money problems for her son , someone who can discuss work opportunities , recognize his need for friendship and help him think about his future . |
| 6 | The understated beauty of her face was framed by the dark curls of her shoulder-length hair — looks which attracted covert glances from other men in the restaurant . |
| 7 | Not only has she caused enormous damage to the already fragile monarchy but she 's humiliated the man she 's still married to . |
| 8 | Has she got dark bricks or light bricks ? |
| 9 | " Has she got golden hair and blue eyes ? " |
| 10 | ‘ Has she talked off-shore investments yet ? ’ |
| 11 | Has any , do has anybody had formal sex education of those seventy eight who that it was very we , it was well taught , that it was good ? |
| 12 | Has anybody used offshore funds at all ? |
| 13 | For instance , a child may inherit a predisposition to schizophrenia , which causes him to have certain childhood adjustment problems , which in turn bring about unusual family communication styles . |
| 14 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 15 | Nor has it drawn large crowds , apart from the 105,000 visitors who attended the inaugural exhibition featuring the work of Dubuffet 's latter years . |
| 16 | Well er as I say I think , er if if if the County Council are are insisting that any new settlement erm should be self contained , I think one would need to see what that definition is before we can be clear as to whether or not it has it has strategic implications . |
| 17 | Has it has it happened other times as well or |
| 18 | What has it got little things on the bottom ? |
| 19 | Has it got double doors that shop ? |
| 20 | And as the drama unfolds it reveals complex layers of corruption and influence-peddling . |
| 21 | Nor has he condemned right-wing extremism without condemning the rarer left-wing sort in the same breath . |
| 22 | Has he made new contacts ? ’ |
| 23 | has he got artificial teeth ? |
| 24 | Fuel is these young mothers ' greatest problem : it takes a large chunk of their small income , and many mothers are also housed on estates with either excessive heating costs or minimal heating provisions , which forces them to use expensive alternatives . |
| 25 | Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money . |
| 26 | Feminist psychology is becoming conscious of its theories ' unadventurousness , their distance from other feminist debates , and the way their focus on individual subjects forces them to neglect social relations . |
| 27 | Organisational learning , where the ‘ organisation ’ stores experiences in forms , procedures and rules , and uses them to teach new staff and retrain others , can encourage adaptiveness to change . |
| 28 | In her most fundamental expression , the Queen of the Night draws on primitive currents of energy and uses them to fulfil instinctive drives that know little of honour , justice , compassion , or other civilized values . |
| 29 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 30 | In the third term they embark on a general survey of the History of Medicine and Science which allows them to put other subjects which the study into their historical context . |