Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [det] [noun pl] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 No amount of reflection on first principles will stop a Christian from assuming that the morality demanded of women , which in Islam he judges to be imposed by the physically stronger sex in its own interests , is in his own religion true to the equality of the sexes before God ; not until women become conscious of and vocal about their own interests does he appreciate that the difference from Islam has from the very first been only one of degree .
2 In some birds , like the American jacana , the female defends a large ‘ super-territory ’ within which each of her several males defends his territory .
3 But the quality of his few compositions makes him not the least important of an influential group of musicians active around the turn of the century .
4 Instead , that author' given us far more than that , and the consequence is that the echo of his own insistencies plagues our easy acceptance of his facts .
5 It 's done you no harm to stand on your own feet has it ?
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