Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These accounts may therefore imply that , as language strengthens its hold on consciousness and , through writing , on the explicit world of knowledge , objects may retain their place in the ordering of the unconscious world . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 3 | Julia Hailes may sip her coffee from a Greenpeace mug and talk of the need for eventual radical environmental legislation , but dark green persons suspect Hailes and her green consumerism of complacency . |
| 4 | The propensity children have for imposing meaning distinctions of their own in their adherence to Contrast may delay their discovery of the absence of a difference between an adult form and a child innovation . |
| 5 | You 've certainly got me interested , and the shipping accounts may take my mind off being cross with you . |
| 6 | This view reflects a widely shared one in pluralist political science that ‘ since power is a type of influence … a power holder may owe his power to his wealth , ability , reputation , popularity or , in general , favorable position with regard to any value ’ . |
| 7 | The GP should have his defibrillator with him . |
| 8 | Although puzzled , he hesitated to investigate more closely for fear his driver should imagine his interest to be prurient . |
| 9 | Well , basically everyone that 's present at these meetings should get our Work in Progress meeting minutes . |
| 10 | Sarah should have her roof on this weekend . |
| 11 | Faith must know its object in a way we can not know an historical fact . |
| 12 | Applicants seeking credits for areas of study , for Sections of the certificate level areas C1 or C2 , or for elements from within an area of study at diploma level must submit their application to the HCIMA and should have received a favourable decision prior to enrolment on a programme or area of study . |
| 13 | They also raised for consideration the possibility of reducing the period beyond the end of the accounting year in which solicitors must submit their report from 6 to 3 months . |
| 14 | At St Cuthbert 's this belt tightening means the vicar must ask his parish for an extra £5,000 and the church steering committee is co-ordinating the appeal for funds , beginning with a planned giving campaign in Lent . |
| 15 | At least that 's the view of Harry Mulholland of Carpetworld , who maintains that housewives should put their faith in the traditional wool Axminster carpets , for sheer quality and durability . |
| 16 | Extrapolation of data from rat to man is difficult , but it is tempting to speculate that the findings in the present study may have its parallel in man and explain some findings reported in patients with diseases accompanied by hypergastrinemia . |
| 17 | Any witness may refresh his memory from notes or records , with the leave of the court , provided that these were made by him , or made by someone else and read over to him when he had a clear recollection of the facts recorded . |
| 18 | While philosophical anthropology may play its part in the study of such paradigms , new research should be initiated into interpersonal communication in non-Western cultures and , particularly , into communication patterns of traditional media . |
| 19 | Its methods may improve our understanding of our patients and ourselves and form the basis for behavioural changes , on which reduction of the risks of the disease still largely depend . |
| 20 | Eleven months on , Beasant is an outcast and Hitchcock is getting rave reviews in Chelsea 's brilliant run , but now Hitchcock may lose his place to Russian Dmitri Kharin . |
| 21 | Ed 's comment : Regular readers may remember my attack on the practice of dying Glassfish in an editorial last year calling for a complete ban . |
| 22 | Celtae was the name of one of the best units in Julian 's army ( Ammianus 20.4.2 ) , and Julian himself says that it was inconceivable to all men that a Celtic or Galatian soldier should turn his back to the enemy ( Orat. 1 , Paneg . |
| 23 | From Hobbes , whose Leviathan he describes as ‘ the greatest … masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language ’ , he inherits the authoritarian aspects of his theory , the outlines of his distinction between state and society , and the rejection of the view that civil association must derive its authority from the inherent justice of some ‘ higher ’ law or a set of fundamental values . |
| 24 | It was also proposed that the WEU should move its secretariat from London to Brussels , in order to reinforce its links with the EC , but no decision was expected until the question of political union in the EC had taken a more definitive shape ( the Maastricht summit of the EC 's European Council being scheduled to agree on this in December 1991 ) . |
| 25 | The changes of 1980 left local authorities in what was still a strong and , if they wished , an influential position in determining what it was that governors and schools should put their name to . |
| 26 | ‘ We reiterated our support for US help and our reasons for seeing the envoy as one way in which the United States should express its friendship to Ireland and to Britain . ’ |
| 27 | And few would disagree that , given the fanaticism and sheer ferocity of tabloid prejudice , it would be unreasonable for gay people to expect that Labour should adopt our cause as an election issue . |
| 28 | A dissenting shareholder should lodge his opposition at the meeting of shareholders and should also appear at the hearing of the petition . |
| 29 | The UN move followed a Serbian order that 28,000 Bosnians must leave their republic in one of the biggest single acts of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ seen yet . |
| 30 | The EC 's delegate to the talks , Pablo Benavides , said afterwards that he thought further talks would be unproductive and that the two parties should refer their dispute to the International Court of Justice . |