Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the creation of a doctoral thesis and preparation of papers for seminars , I had to face the conscious problem of writing about a system which I know prefers silence and links such reticence to ideas of ‘ respect ’ , ‘ order ’ , and ‘ discipline ’ in an all-encompassing paternalism . |
| 2 | Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust . |
| 3 | It is not only the anomalies in these tables to which I wish to draw attention but the assumptions on which they are based . |
| 4 | All the same , you are lovely , with a gorgeous smile which I bet brightens Faye 's day no end . ’ |
| 5 | A few months after his death , I was asked to act as editor of this bicentenary history of the Royal Veterinary College , and I am proud to have been one of the team that has produced a book which I hope does justice to the author and to the College . |
| 6 | I am setting up a 36″ × 12″ × 18″ tank , in which I hope to keep Clown Fish , a Yellow Tang , a Regal Tang , a Hawk Fish , a Fire Goby and a Cleaner Shrimp . |
| 7 | If I have a free choice , I seek an organization which I perceive has goals , values and beliefs similar to my own . |
| 8 | I am therefore not Christian not least for the sake of the kind of human relationships which I want to see flourish . |
| 9 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 10 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 11 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 12 | Other disciplines are not historical in the sense in which I have named Christianity a ‘ historical ’ religion . |
| 13 | The conclusion which I have reached results , in my view , not only from a settled and sustained line of authority which I see no reason to question and which I think should be endorsed but also from the view that any other conclusion would be constitutionally undesirable and impracticable . |
| 14 | May I welcome the presence of the Home Secretary and the shadow Home Secretary when asking a question of which I have given notice , in the hope of a serious reply ? |
| 15 | I have written another dialogue , in which I have allowed Hylas to fight back . |
| 16 | There is one for the work force and something called ’ Green Watch ’ on which I have had correspondence with the county director and which costs about £60,000 a year . |
| 17 | Met someone today , the third of a partnership trio in which I have had contact with two over the years for different reasons and he said look in re CV for i/view practice if I want — he was with a local enterprise company helping with startups and job searches and now voluntarily helps with just such a counselling group via one of the big churches in Edinburgh for redundant executives — the figure quoted to me recently re architects in Scotland is that forty per cent are redundant . |
| 18 | Data obtained in the 1969 Census ( to which I have had access but which , to my knowledge , remain unpublished ) suggest that only 15% of the population spoke a mother tongue which was not closely related to one of the seven African broadcast languages . |
| 19 | Those of you who have read my papers in Nature may know that these are now known as Briant Bodies , and fall into four distinct groups , which I have labeled Alpha , Beta , Gamma and Delta . |
| 20 | Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ? |
| 21 | Reacting to the death of a young man in custody , he said : ’ I personally wish to say how abhorrent it is to have to deal with children , because that is what Geoffrey was — a child in a penal setting — and under the conditions in which I have to run Feltham , for want of staff . ’ |
| 22 | Politics tends to develop and generate within all large groups of people , but in the bad organizations which I have described politics dominates everything . |
| 23 | The arguments before us ranged far and wide , as they did before the judge , but in the end they resolved into the following issues which I propose to consider seriatim. ( 1 ) Can a non-trading corporation sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation when no actual financial loss is pleaded or established ? ( 2 ) Does the right to freedom of expression affect the position where the non-trading corporation is also a public authority ? ( 3 ) Does the operation of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 , or any other matter contained in or omitted from the council 's statement of claim , preclude the council from continuing with this action ? |
| 24 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 25 | So I 've known what I 've given people for like the year before . |
| 26 | and the fear of people for each other that that lot might take away what I 've got sort of thing . |
| 27 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 28 | See , that 's what I 've bought patterns now |
| 29 | But what I want to draw attention to here is the failure to understand that past social beliefs were formed within the context of false beliefs about the biological relation of woman and man . |
| 30 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |