Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben Nevis really needs no introduction , and as most walkers intend to climb it at some point it 's worthy of inclusion . |
| 2 | Historical knowledge is in the end indivisible , even if the multiplication of specialisms seem to subdivide it into separate spheres . |
| 3 | Heaven knows why , but numerous other GTi drivers seem to see us as some kind of personal challenge . |
| 4 | Besides , some heads like to lord it over local parents — particularly over the pushy ones . |
| 5 | The origins are often to be found by watching and listening to what goes on in the Soccer Specials — the trains and coaches which fans hire to transport themselves to away games . |
| 6 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |
| 7 | I do n't think your words have reassured them at all . |
| 8 | Fans have besieged me of late claiming that in my last programme notes I announced the opening of a club shop . |
| 9 | He does not , however , have to pursue his own investigations if the parties have provided him with sufficient evidence : 14.8 . |
| 10 | The surprising thing is that Russian companies choose to repatriate anything at all , officially . |
| 11 | " You mean me and racehorses have got something in common ? " |
| 12 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
| 13 | Two years later , the selected strategy and its financial implications have proved themselves with little need for modification . |
| 14 | Although all epochs have helped themselves to this or that aspect of Mozart , all have over-emphasised the ‘ charm ’ . |
| 15 | From a methodological point of view , Bortoni-Ricardo 's work is particularly interesting , because in developing these two types of index it extends the application of the network variable beyond an analysis of small closeknit groups to an analysis of the extent to which individuals have detached themselves from such groups . |
| 16 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 17 | If the previous five markets are anything to go by , works will be grabbed from the walls and plinths while organisers rush to replace them with other works . |
| 18 | They are quite adaptable to different illumination levels , however , and shortly after introduction to the aquarium may undergo colour changes ; these colour changes represent either the production or the loss of pigments which the corals produce to protect themselves from excess ultraviolet light . |
| 19 | ‘ For all we know , if the plant breeders start producing lots of new varieties , they might select out the protective ingredients . |
| 20 | " We are strong , brave , clever — and the gods have blessed us with magical voices , too . " |
| 21 | It is hard to resist the pressure to use them , especially as some nuclear-power generators have tied themselves into long-term reprocessing contracts . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , most studies have concerned themselves with ill effect , notably that of emotional stress . |
| 23 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 24 | Write their names write write it like this H C L N A O H |
| 25 | The grubs and beetles try to hide themselves in secret places where none shall see them , but nevertheless there are many which are swallowed whole in one swift plunge and gobble . |
| 26 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 27 | There is experimental evidence , however , that small groups of particles in liquids do arrange themselves in small , ordered and short-lived clusters . |
| 28 | Bede 's commentary on aspects of seventh-century English life reflects the nature and extent of the traffic of gifts , particularly between royalty and senior members of the Christian Church ; the items and the materials serve to remind us of some of the primitive valuables seen in the pagan graves . |
| 29 | What , anyway , makes British rugby players plan to price themselves at such a princely paypacket ? |
| 30 | What , anyway , makes British rugby players plan to price themselves at such a princely paypacket ? |