Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The member shall ensure that a person is not appointed as a company representative of that member except on terms which impose on him a duty to act in the performance of his functions as a company representative in such a way as to comply with the code of conduct ; … |
2 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
3 | By the clouds which hang around it the locals can foretell a storm : |
4 | Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand . |
5 | Similarly , Cnut and Emma gave to Abingdon a reliquary for the remains of St Vincent which bore upon it the inscription " King Cnut and Queen Ælfgifu commanded the making of this reliquary from 230 gold mancuses , refined by fire , and two pounds of silver of great weight " . |
6 | to provide meetings which have about them a sense of mental , spiritual and emotional homecoming to them . |
7 | Both men are reporting what seem to them the facts of the case , and they are the more confident about doing so because no Englishman has arisen to rebut their arguments . |