Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We venture into public life protected not so much by the sanctions of formal law but by an unwritten charter of civil rights which assigns us both access to and independence from others with whom we come into contact . |
| 2 | It is the experience of similar events which enables him to judge what the purpose of an utterance might be . |
| 3 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 4 | Bench ends at Braunton show a number of inverted initials which leads one to suppose that the carver was illiterate and was working from drawings which were being read upside down . |
| 5 | The argument gains force when applied to boxing where the emphasis shifts to the muscular flexibility and , as manager Terry Lawless put it , the ‘ natural fluidity ’ of black fighters which gives them a distinct edge over their more rigid white counterparts : |
| 6 | In the absence of pressing problems he improvises his activities , working the case he wants to work . |
| 7 | Although recognizing some such affinities between subjects , it is more difficult to find an overall order of main classes which suits everybody . |
| 8 | He 's a man with wide horizons who knows what he wants . " |
| 9 | We normally suppose that our experience is a reliable guide to the nature of those parts of the world which we are not observing , and that in favourable cases it gives us knowledge . |
| 10 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
| 11 | In American Notes he records his impressions of several US prisons including the Boston House of Correction , The Tombs ( New York ) , the Eastern Penitentiary ( Philadelphia ) , and the Maryland State Penitentiary ( AN 3 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 12 | In greasy Clouts she wraps her smoky Chin , |
| 13 | The long button displays the underlying data form — in other words it lets you return to the form you initially filled in to create the slide . |
| 14 | In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links . |
| 15 | which it ca n't be right cos , I suppose in a way it 's none of our business but it is I mean if it gets to it , it puts our company in financial difficulties it means it 's jobs on the line int it that sort of thing |
| 16 | On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster , flares a-flap , hair streaming behind him like a curtain . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're the only two guests , so if you 're on separate floors it means you 've each got your own bathroom . |
| 18 | The Australian 's 61 off 69 balls , at a time when Tim Munton was making other batsmen jump , was of the highest quality and serves as a warning to other sides what awaits them at Chelmsford . |
| 19 | So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass . |
| 20 | We 've designed to modern standards which means there 's less space but the properties are as good if not better than similar properties in the private sector |
| 21 | At other times it involves them in working with familiar phenomena . |
| 22 | Both gain a sense of confidence and security provided by other women which helps them overcome the trials they face growing up . |