Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
2 | The Italian the other children spoke in school was not a dialect like my Triestino and in many subjects I was in any case behind the others , a thought which made me very unhappy . |
3 | ‘ IT 'S NOT the number of winners I am after this year . |
4 | It is perhaps hard to see what Picasso found to admire that was common to both tribal sculpture and the work of Cézanne , two arts which are in many ways diametrically opposed . |
5 | This page lists all the DCs which are in some way related to the DC . |
6 | More recently we have bond ( that is , fixed-interest funds ) designed to maximise and maintain income levels , and cash funds which are in some ways an alternative to bank or building society deposits , though they may produce a slightly higher return . |
7 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
8 | It lumps together subjects which are in some ways profoundly dissimilar , and erodes distinctions which may in themselves be significant not only conceptually but in terms of policy . |
9 | Partners are under a duty , by s. 28 of the Partnership Act 1890 , to disclose to other partners all matters relating to the partnership which are within that partner 's knowledge . |
10 | Beyond the page-turner are the real semi-literate books which are of another kind entirely . |
11 | Shoppers who are in any doubt should ask their card company for a new card . |
12 | However , they underestimate the amount of opposition there is from some groups of men to women getting good jobs . |
13 | yeah , they all , I always take one and I 'm always pleasantly surprised usually by the amount of gear there are in these places |
14 | More significantly , in many districts there were in most villages several households which depended on cattle stealing for their livelihood . |
15 | Secondly , the torts considered in this chapter may also come into question in cases of alleged unlawful competition between traders , but in practice they are of little significance because of the common law 's refusal to adopt any principle of ‘ fair competition ’ other than the prohibition of obviously unlawful acts like torts and crimes and breaches of contract . |
16 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
17 | It 's my fault he 's in this mess . |
18 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
19 | It 's just like an inverse it 's of that number |
20 | Small it is in this poore sort |
21 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
22 | At the outset I should point out that the accounts which are before this meeting are for the year ending 5th April 1992 . |
23 | The country is divided into thirty-two states which are in many respects self-governing , with laws differing from state to state , although all are subject to the national federal law . |
24 | But resistance to government reorganization was not simply based on self-interest ; what a person 's self-interest was , was defined by institutions and economic expectations , by a social framework which was to some extent traditional and entrenched . |
25 | But again , too evident delight in surmounting a difficulty which was after all self-imposed suggests that the Resident 's obscuration of the nature of his influence was primarily not a form of reticence or uncertainty , but of display . |
26 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
27 | " Meanings " are neither equated with speakers ' intentions , nor with recipients ' interpretations ; both are looked on as mental entities which are of little interest as long as they do not " materialize " in interaction . |
28 | The bible is considered to be inspired literature which is in some way normative for the religion . |
29 | It is the fear of losing love , friendship , or both that provides the means whereby the conscience warns the individual of the consequences of performing acts which are in some way hurtful to other creatures . |
30 | It may suit one of the parties at the time of the reference to exploit the uncertainty created by poor drafting , either by delaying matters by a construction summons ( see 8.17.7 ) or by insisting on a particular definition of the issue which is to that party 's advantage . |