Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 2 | It turns them away from looser , unstructured organizations . |
| 3 | Well , do you want to go to Phillips and , I mean he kicks them out in two weeks . |
| 4 | There are many lesser examples around , of people whose influence upon policy making owes nothing either to any notion of representative government or to the cruder theories about pressure-group activity |
| 5 | Lynx contains nothing else of any note . |
| 6 | Jenny holds me up with one arm and shouts at him . |
| 7 | I think when you 're a carer , caring for a disabled person , in my own case it 's child , you 're not just erm it 's not just a disabled child , you 've got a disabled family , because the whole family 's disabled because of what holds you back with this one child . |
| 8 | The PDP-10 also has an instruction which interchanges the two halves of a word during transmission , and one which adds one simultaneously to both halves of an accumulator . |
| 9 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 10 | The public is being asked to believe that an ill-conceived government has it in for these companies . |
| 11 | Collimore in the middle do n't forget to take the ball and finally whips it in towards Collimore and Lewis heads it back in that direction and Ormanroyd with an awkward clearance . |
| 12 | It costs £11 , here , which places it well below most so-called fully fledged GTi cars . |
| 13 | She holds it up in different lights and tries to con its meaning . |
| 14 | Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning , Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion 's turned off . |
| 15 | That 's why he shuts himself away in that lonely place . ’ |
| 16 | I asked what upsets her most of all . |
| 17 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 18 | ‘ He wakes me up at two in the morning sometimes , for no reason at all , ’ Peter said . |
| 19 | And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed ! |
| 20 | The participation rate has been high and the method of eliciting responses , which identifies individual reactions and then tests them out in two other contexts , has produced a reliable collective record of student experience . |
| 21 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 22 | ‘ This establishes what out of all the training we were doing contributes to any of the five critical success factors we 've identified as key and without which we would fail . ’ |
| 23 | The second half of the verse , ‘ Gesture of orang-outang/ Rises from the sheets in steam ’ simultaneously forces us back into human prehistory , before even polyphemus , and forward into the present of Doris and Mrs Turner , since monkey evolves into human where ‘ orang-outang ’ becomes homo erectus ; yet ‘ knots of hair ’ makes the modern return to the ape , and shaving Sweeney , for all his performing the action of his namesake , the demon barber , seems as crude and brutal as the Cyclops — such is the grotesquely comic evolutionary irony of the loss of hair . |
| 24 | He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) This plays itself out in spatial terms in the restructuration of the centre of our great cities and the creation of a large group of central-city dwelling ‘ yuppies ’ among the post-industrial middle classes . |
| 26 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 27 | The influence of a business contact or personal friend wins you over to new tactics making the weekend a crucial time in your future decisions and options . |
| 28 | This means that if you start with a random collection of objects above the hole , and some force shakes and jostles them about at random , after a while the objects above and below the hole will come to be nonrandomly sorted . |
| 29 | And now — ’ she made a typical high-jumpers ' gesture , that which marks them out from all other athletes , raising her arms and stretching her torso , as if taking off to challenge that dappled crossbar . |
| 30 | For all that we have said about the role of the country districts round — which applies as much to northern as to Italian cities — and the close relation , however ambivalent , of religious aspirations and the development of towns , it is in the end their place in the accumulation of wealth which marks them out in this age : they are at once the symbols and the centres of mammon ; in them gathered the moneyers who struck coin and the merchants who exchanged and accumulated it . |