Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just … well , I meet someone like you with whom I feel instant affinity , to whom I 'm instantly attracted and … |
| 2 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 3 | I myself was greatly encouraged and inspired by Eric Milner-White , Dean of York and before that Dean of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 4 | You know you are not wasting your time because this is a job for which you are genuinely suited and which you would like . |
| 5 | ‘ There are so many more cross-border deals today , and if you can speak German or French or Japanese and you go for a job against somebody who is equally qualified but only speaks English , you will get hired . ’ |
| 6 | The Conservative Party , which dominated the National government , operated a policy of ‘ appeasement ’ to which there was only limited and fragmented opposition from within its ranks . |
| 7 | DAVID HUME in 1757 wrote ‘ There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves and transfer to every object those qualities with which they are intimately acquainted and of which they are intimately conscious . ’ |
| 8 | If crime and disorder follow a U-shape pattern of long-term change , the legitimacy of the police — the extent to which they are broadly accepted as valid in mission and methods — has followed an inverse path : an upside-down U. Starting from the widespread opposition encountered at the birth of the new police , opposition gradually came to be located primarily within the less ‘ respectable ’ sections of the working class , as well as in the wider working class during periods of labour conflict . |
| 9 | They are not the monolithic structures which they are often presented as being . |
| 10 | Indeed , Emile Burns ' survey of the councils of action , after the dispute , revealed the great extent to which they were badly organized and the degree to which in Middlesborough , for instance , ‘ each trade acted on its own ’ . |
| 11 | Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations . |
| 12 | The breakdown of a barrier would allow species from both sides to compete with one another , and the winners would spread out to occupy any territory to which they were better adapted than the natives . |
| 13 | The annual report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration criticised the system whereby claimants had to go through a cumbersome late appeals procedure to obtain the full arrears benefit to which they were rightfully entitled where those exceeded the statutory 12-month limit . |
| 14 | Some have done well and now own the businesses in which they were once employed or have opened their own . |
| 15 | A statute is , after all , the formal and complete intimation to the citizen of a particular rule of the law which he is enjoined , sometimes under penalty , to obey and by which he is both expected and entitled to regulate his conduct . |
| 16 | There , between 1647 and 1655 Taylor wrote the books for which he is best known and kept the flame of his proscribed Church alive under the rule of parliament and Cromwell . |
| 17 | Not every funeral furnisher was able to go independent , and relied on the wholesalers to provide items for which he was rarely asked and consequently had no need to stock . |
| 18 | Bonnie Prince Charlie was also a Catholic , another of the facts for which he was never forgiven and another contribution to the ambivalence he excites . |
| 19 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 20 | This alone would permit the evaluation of UK problems and policies in their international setting and clarify the implications of policy choices at the EEC level for the UK and the rest of the EEC as well as locating options for Europe as a whole in the global context by which it is powerfully influenced and constrained . |
| 21 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 22 | Overall , a healthy plurality of different initiatives is likely to arise if a strong voluntary sector grasps the opportunity with which it is currently presented and if it is actively supported by the statutory authorities . |
| 23 | Metal which has been purchased and committed to future sales to customers or hedged in metal markets is valued at the price at which it is contractually committed or hedged , adjusted for unexpired contango . |
| 24 | Postulating the presence of a generalized person in the infinitive whose position in time as support of the infinitive 's event is either coincident or subsequent to another position of this same person , at which it is often represented as support of some other event , thus leads to a more profound comprehension of the motives underlying the use of to . |
| 25 | This culminated in late March with a visit to Moscow by Ozawa as LDP secretary-general , during which it was strongly rumoured that Japan had offered a US$26,000 million cash , loans and aid package in exchange for the return of the islands . |
| 26 | The movement 's critique proclaimed a uniqueness and originality for its discoveries to which it was never entitled and which served only to reinforce the self-deluding image of its own power and influence in the world . |
| 27 | That means that the reduction in the rent applied throughout the years down to the end of 1944 , but early in 1945 it is plain that the flats were fully let , and , indeed the rents received from them ( many of them not being affected by the Rent Restrictions Acts ) , were increased beyond the figure at which it was originally contemplated that they would be let . |
| 28 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 29 | An offer is something which is clearly intended if accepted to form a binding agreement . |
| 30 | Aggression , in the Morrissey vision , is something which is both permitted and to be encouraged in certain circumstances . |