Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EIiot 's intense sympathy with the fishermen of the Massachusetts coast transforms them into figures of endurance , secular saints , whose course is one of earthly failure which the toughest faith transforms into gain . |
| 2 | There are many of these power bases and their usefulness depends on whether other people concede that the individual has them as bases for power or not . |
| 3 | The orchestra swarms over the first movement like killer bees , and the fierceness of the finale redeems it from suspicions of empty triumphalism . |
| 4 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 5 | As far as years are concerned erm it 's actually a scheme which allows you to gaps in your career . |
| 6 | Debi says it with flowers to Noel |
| 7 | More recently , the Cork Committee Report on Insolvency Law and Practice ( 1982 ) Cmnd 8558 , para 1623 expressed the following opinion : We are conscious that our remit limits us to recommendations concerning the law of insolvency . |
| 8 | Mersey Regional Health Authority spokeswoman Jackie Rankin said : ‘ It was very successful for a lot of people who had time to reflect on what they drink and what it costs them in terms of money and their health . |
| 9 | She thought , listening to the famous film director , that she had not had an experience of oppression , of violence , at least she had not experienced her life in those terms ) : Your interpretation of women sees them as objects of desire , images in advertisements , pin-ups — how are you going to express the inner thoughts of Black Panthers ? |
| 10 | But although the attitudinist agrees with the intuitionist that the meaning of ethical words can not be exhaustively analysed in naturalistic or metaphysical terms he takes a more positive view of the kinds of definition which Moore was so concerned to refute , for he sees them as examples of a particular type of definition , which has a legitimate place in discourse . |
| 11 | He must decide the general outline of the process as he sees it in terms of movement . |
| 12 | Hans Eysenck , for instance , sees it in terms of 85:15 in favour of inheritance , or sometimes 80:20 ; he 's not quite certain which . |
| 13 | Its subsidiary , Second Life Plastics , collects waste plastic from farmers and recycles it for BPI at a cost of £120 a tonne . |
| 14 | While reducing head teachers ' autonomy in curricular matters , the 1988 Act increases it in matters of financial management . |
| 15 | The tour takes you to parts of this lovely area of Austria that most clients do n't find . |
| 16 | ‘ And as for the Bulldog , I hear that his wife takes him for walks at night to stop him making a mess . |
| 17 | ‘ You know Howard , do n't you ? ’ she says , as she levers him into conversations at parties . |
| 18 | Everyone gets it in spades in director Robert Altman 's wicked satire The Player ( Guild , 15 , out now ) . |
| 19 | Here the detector is connected through a second closely coupled low-loss transformer , the primary of which has an adjustable tapping X' that divides it into sections with turns N' 1 and N' 2 . |
| 20 | As with so many poisonous animals , the tarantula prefers to keep its venom for feeding time and only employs it against enemies as a last resort . |
| 21 | It can be sub-divided into two distinct operations : Staging This takes the list of teaching items and arranges it into blocks of the right size for the various years , months , weeks , days and classes of the teaching course . |
| 22 | I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality . |
| 23 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 24 | His one-man show takes us through states of mind and body . |
| 25 | They gyrate in perplexity as Rattletrap confounds them with scales upon his chasmochord . |
| 26 | Something in me still revolts at an outright demand : it draws me into explanations of the connection between money and work . |
| 27 | One line of epistemological inquiry leads Habermas to explore the developed forms of knowledge in a way that locates them in terms of his phenomenological grounding of knowing subjects . |
| 28 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 29 | Four hours ' ride finds you at ruins of the Mayan civilisation where the cousins of the Aztecs built jungle pyramids to worship their gods . |
| 30 | It 's too heavy for her to carry , so she pulls it to pieces with her beak , holding it tightly in her talons . |