Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women who assemble stationery or shoes have to inflict on their families the permanent , sickly , and probably unhealthy smell of glue and solvents . |
| 2 | Constant liaison at the appropriate level is therefore necessary to avoid a situation arising where problems have occurred about which the supplier is not aware . |
| 3 | This , after all , is a place where scorning government has been taken to new extremes ; where voters have boxed in their politicians with ballot initiative after ballot initiative . |
| 4 | The Rev Awdry is proud that railwaymen have written to him , praising the accuracy of the Thomas the Tank engine books . |
| 5 | Darwin 's theory of evolution incorporates the principle of natural selection , which suggests that animals change according to their surroundings , developing adaptations — over several generations — which enhance their ability to survive in particular habitats . |
| 6 | But whatever the case , tool use is only one of the many varied and complex behavioural adaptations that animals have acquired in their struggle to survive . |
| 7 | These mobile pieces of DNA ( called transposons ) share many features in common with the genetic material of some viruses and it is possible that viruses have evolved from them . |
| 8 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 9 | It can be seen that pluralists tend to disagree on what the functions are , and even on their number . |
| 10 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 11 | More importantly , we shall also consider some of the most recent approaches that psychologists have adopted in their attempts to bridge the gap which has hitherto existed between psychological theory and educational practice . |
| 12 | Although I am sure that the Publishers Association is sincere in wishing to manage the book club rules as tightly as it manages the Net Book Agreement , we are all aware of the increasing confidence of the book clubs , who are bound to accelerate their invasion into the territory that booksellers have regarded as theirs . |
| 13 | This was a somewhat underexploited arthropodan niche that ants have claimed as their domain . |
| 14 | Although stocks have fallen from their earlier high of 32 million tonnes due to an upsurge in the steel industry , at the end of June 1984 stocks still stood at 18 million tonnes . |
| 15 | Then geography , and the entrepreneurial cleverness that Greeks seem to carry in their bones , make their country a natural trading post between Europe and the countries of south-west Asia and northern Africa . |
| 16 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 17 | THE BBC 's Halloween programme Ghostwatch is proof that viewers do react to what they see on TV . |
| 18 | It is often pointed out that chemists have failed in their attempts to duplicate the spontaneous origin of life in the laboratory . |
| 19 | Another A group perspective is that girls do succeed at what primary schools ask them to do , but that primary schools and teachers fail to prepare them adequately for more advanced mathematics . |
| 20 | Political parties have somehow got it into their heads that voters want to agree with them , so put up policies with which voters will agree . |
| 21 | Together , these mean that piglets need protecting from their own mothers as well as from other sows . |
| 22 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 23 | Douglas Kinnaird , of PA Consultants and one of the UK 's top headhunters , makes the point that quite often women do n't realise how hard promotion is to get and that men have worked for it for months , if not years . |
| 24 | Refuse the control that others seem to have over you . |
| 25 | Of his modest Welsh Ring cycle he said , ‘ I aimed to strip away all the burdens that philosophers have put on everybody 's shoulders about the Ring , and take a very fresh , sensuous look at it . ’ |
| 26 | He had learned , he told his audience , that rumours have spread among you of my intention to abolish serfdom . |
| 27 | Exposure to the latter route of infection does not occur until kittens begin to hunt for themselves or to share the prey of their dams . |
| 28 | Agnes is stretched out on her back , and images keep passing through her head : that strange , kindly man is visiting them again , the one who knows all about them and yet has not heard of the Eiffel Tower . |
| 29 | Their function now is to make a good job of delivering the railway services that the PTEs and sectors want to buy from them . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , ideas for new contrasts and effects keep popping into my head and I can hardly wait to put them into practice . |