Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb -s] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | In sensual love , people 's judgement becomes distorted and the loved object ( Freud always uses ‘ loved object ’ , not ‘ loved person ’ ) is highly evaluated , and faults are not seen — the tendency termed ‘ idealization ’ . |
2 | Also they do not believe that our experience ( as , for example , that a woman 's ministry feels good and appropriate ) is a reliable guide to what God may want for his Church . |
3 | WACC 's Women 's Programme encourages full and equal participation of women in public communication so that their distinctive insights into , and experiences of , life become part of the public agenda while , at the same time , the oppressive mechanisms of male domination are removed . |
4 | ‘ When a woman 's lover says little or nothing between the sheets , she will feel unloved , ’ says Barbara DeAngelis in her book How To Make Love All The Time . |
5 | I I there is no evidence that it 's an inherited or venereal problem and this is the , you know you we have there has been lots of sort of studies done to see which woman might be more at risk and which women , you know , might have symptoms and th , the fact is that the reason why you , why the menopause occurs is because the ovaries stop functioning , they stop producing oestrogen and every woman 's ovaries does this and they do it you know , at all varying ages the average age is fifty . |
6 | Louis 's grand-daughter has less than fond memories of night-time visits . |
7 | Leapor 's poetry makes clear that she suffered many distressing lectures from her father , yet if the poet and her father had reached an understanding , indeed , if they intended to use the money from the subscription to buy their freehold and have security for their life together , Landry 's interpretation of this episode is simply captious . |
8 | Doug 's machine has four and a half meg free . |
9 | For what it is worth , Leicestershire 's batting looks attractive and the seam bowlers sound , butthey must improve their slow bowling form . |
10 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
11 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
12 | Crawford 's character finishes eighth but , having overtaxed himself , he then collapses on the track . |
13 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
14 | Mr Corden 's departure comes less than a month after Frank Gray was sacked as manager of the Third Division 's bottom club . |
15 | We must remember , however , that today 's uprating comes more than a year after the Conservative leadership coup and that there can be no excuse for the provisions . |
16 | Wrangham 's theory remains tentative but if it stands up to further investigation it suggests that humans were primordially partrilineal . |
17 | Nagel refers to Adam Smith whom he takes to be advocating , as a matter of reason , the restriction of moral judgment only to that which the agent has done in a narrow sense because to attribute responsibility for that beyond the agent 's control seems irrational and is akin to strict liability . |
18 | If Quaid 's role seems contrived and the film betrays signs of forced editing in the abrupt , jerky resolution of an expansive but slackly focused narrative , COME SEE THE PARADISE has notable compensations : convincing performances from an unknown cast ( some of whom passed their childhood in the camps ) , a sharp sense of the sometimes bizarre and humorous manifestations of cultural miscegenation and a detailed evocation of period and locale . |
19 | My er my adam 's apple gets cold but that 's about it . |
20 | The first 25 years of FYT 's life owes more than can be told to Philip Tompson . |
21 | In battle , Burton 's voice cuts urgent and keen — always likeable , always amiable . |
22 | Now this 21-year-old motor mechanic 's daughter looks stronger and better than ever off a four-handicap , and again showed what stern stuff she is made of with a thrilling tie-hole victory over Leinster international , Carol Wickham , at Royal Belfast . |
23 | Cannon 's Historical Record of the King 's Regiment gives little or no details of the Regiment 's service in the Ionian Islands between 1819 and 1824 . |
24 | The sufferer 's height becomes lower and she will have a stoop . |
25 | It 's indicative of that enfeebled culture of opposition that Labour 's insecurity prevents intelligent and thoughtful politicians from airing their reservations and doubts in public . |
26 | Africa 's debt has more than tripled since 1980 . |
27 | Ian Halcrow 's Macbeth looks great but never draws us close , and he and others swallow or truncate their lines as though they cared very little for them . |
28 | As the victim 's temperature rises higher and higher , they suffer internal heatstroke and all their organs gradually fail . |
29 | The latter 's vicious slap on the child 's face explains more than any other gesture Natalia 's selfishness . |
30 | Happiness on Mary 's face reveals more than words about contemporary care that is a million miles from formal institutions of the past . |