Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) . |
2 | Characters who make it to the top of the hill see a brilliant flash of sunlight , experience momentarily the scent of a summer day abundant with wild flowers and the taste of sweet wine and nectar- and then find themselves standing in a corridor , with their backs to the west wall , opposite the door to the scribe 's room ( location 59 ) . |
3 | There is no doubt at all that heads have the power , in managerial terms , to make such decisions ; but it would be a foolish head who put them to the governors without first winning staff support . |
4 | But it is undoubtedly dangerous and often cruel , stirring not so much the boxers but the crowds who watch them to a pitch of savagery quite incompatible with the notion that boxing is ‘ the noble art of self-defence ’ . |
5 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
6 | The queen spreads them over her body and they are licked off by the workers , who pass them to the rest of the colony by trophallaxis . |
7 | Buck 's other contacts include an ageing hooker whom he mistakes for a society woman ( ‘ I 'm one gorgeous chick , ’ says the ungorgeous non-chicken Sylvia Miles ) ; two weak and whining homosexual pick-ups ; and a couple of weirdos who invite him to an ‘ underground ’ party . |
8 | Of note this time round are cosmic headhunters Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band and Praise Space Electric , the twisted 14th Wray who invite you to a ‘ Yuppie Deadhead Party ’ and the mutilated shriek of Boris And His Bolshie Balalaika which is bad drug craziness at its frothing , wild-eyed best . |
9 | The ones who recommend you to a mate |
10 | JERVIS and PAMELA , who help her to a chair . ] |
11 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |