Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] [pron] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a topic on which McClellan himself has written and one which presents a fundamental problem to anyone planning book provision for public libraries . |
| 2 | If you reach the conclusion that the asking price is reasonable , ring the agent and ask if any other offers have been made and what he thinks the owner might accept . |
| 3 | My Lords , as I would submit , the report contains a great deal which confirms and nothing which contradicts the interpretation of the word ‘ appropriates ’ which I have preferred , and a comparison of the Act with the draft Bill gives no support to the contrary view . |
| 4 | The conditions to be satisfied are simply that the meaning ‘ must be one which lex will tolerate and one which dispels the uncertainty in such a manner as to settle the dispute without immediately provoking further controversy ’ . |
| 5 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 6 | In " Area B " , one of two areas of South-East London where Hewitt worked and one which has a relatively high density of Caribbeans , even white children may learn some Creole in primary school , through peer contact ( 1986 : 150 ) . |
| 7 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |