Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conventional way of defining financial accounting ( the convention was established in 1966 by the American Accounting Association 's A Statement of Basic Accounting Theory ) has it that accounting is a purposive activity , i.e. it is directed towards a specified end . |
| 2 | Common misconception has it that rock'n'roll was invented when Alan Freed first foisted this brash new music on the unsuspecting good burghers of Cleveland in April 1952 . |
| 3 | But Jesus ' teaching shows us that repentance is God 's joy . |
| 4 | Much medical opinion also assures us that hypnosis is not essential . |
| 5 | The digi-terror which still afflicts we analogue-minded guitarists is , in reality , founded on common sense , not , as is usually stated , on our well-documented Luddite tendencies . |
| 6 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 7 | JB4 tells you that Word is saving your file |
| 8 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
| 9 | A sundial tells us that time was important even before the Swiss started making clocks and watches . |
| 10 | The context , rather than phonological evidence , tells us that silver is given in the above example and that the new element therefore starts at needs . |
| 11 | What gives me greatest pride is that it means Courtaulds will end the century in the same business it started . |
| 12 | Gives you these hotels are n't comfortable , beds , noisy neighbours unusual food |
| 13 | Ironically , Bourdieu 's action theory means we human scientists are more constrained by structures than in Lévi-Strauss 's or Althusser 's structuralism . |
| 14 | In the end , the only character who lifts the play from the ruck and gives it lasting interest is the virtuoso himself . |
| 15 | It suits us that haste is made slowly and that we have to think and plan before we commit ourselves . |
| 16 | The identifiable failures of school science — the anti-science anti-technologists who can see science only as domination rather than that science as domination is itself a historical product , and the mass of people whose schooling teaches them that science is a specialized activity over which they neither have nor could have any control . |
| 17 | Jewish law teaches us that sex is equally important between a married couple who wish to have children and between a couple where the woman may be infertile or menopausal . |