Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 3 | 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 ) . ’ |
| 4 | Has she got dark bricks or light bricks ? |
| 5 | ‘ Has she talked off-shore investments yet ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Has it has it happened other times as well or |
| 10 | What has it got little things on the bottom ? |
| 11 | Has it got double doors that shop ? |
| 12 | And as the drama unfolds it reveals complex layers of corruption and influence-peddling . |
| 13 | Has he made new contacts ? ’ |
| 14 | has he got artificial teeth ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But if women do want change , they may have to give up what they have invested in men — the idealisation which ( temporarily ) allows them to avoid uncomfortable things in themselves . |
| 22 | But more experienced workers have found the use of packages slow , as the conventional system allows them to skip irrelevant parts more easily . |
| 23 | Finally , the mass media also have an interest in keeping alive this potent myth , for it allows them to present political events to voters — consumers in simplified and personalized narrative forms which can be readily understood . |
| 24 | But it can be altered as time goes by , if a client can afford extra premiums , their salary allows them to have extra increases , it can be altered , but would nec would possibly want medical underwriting for any future increasing . |
| 25 | The admission of new members to a Europe which allows them to adopt common policies only where they are feasible and productive , and the consequent necessary institutional changes which will allow existing members this option , would bring about the effective development of a ‘ Europe of varying geometry ’ in a calm and deliberate fashion . |
| 26 | Their behaviour in resembling mine often allows me to make correct interpretations of their experience . |
| 27 | In many cases having the equipment in-house allows you to do other things that you might otherwise never have considered so saving even more . |
| 28 | Create User privilege allows you to create immediate descendants in the LIFESPAN user tree using option 7.2.1 . |
| 29 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 30 | Buying rooted cuttings allows you to try unusual varieties , then propagate your favourites by taking cuttings from mature plants , without much expense . |