Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip 's comments provide an ironic commentary on other ( younger ? ) readers who identify strongly with the B. A. He suggests the possibility of using the text to bolster the male reader 's own claims to superhuman strength even as he simultaneously dismisses this as fantasy . |
| 2 | Indeed an even more striking feature of the results was that the individuals examined were especially high on a measure of ‘ ego strength ’ , indicating a greater than average resistance to mental breakdown : the finding is particularly interesting because the latter is usually very low in subjects who deviate markedly on the clinical scales of tests like the MMPI . |
| 3 | The procedure is very demanding in terms of time and trouble for the inspectors who enter wholly into the spirit of what is required . |
| 4 | This type of facility is usually only offered to travel agents or companies who deal regularly with the hotel , and can be relied upon to guarantee their commitment . |
| 5 | There are also three other Directors who report directly to the Registrar for the sections of the University Offices under their charge , namely the Director of the Development Office , the Director of the External Relations Office , and the Director of Research Services . |
| 6 | So the government risks a revolt by those rural stalwarts who do much of the legwork during general elections , as well as years of ill-mannered squabbles as the two sets of councillors argue their worth to the commission . |
| 7 | They prove themselves by becoming elite performers who climb rapidly through the organization . |
| 8 | It is clear that , in the past , artists who work independently of the West End galleries have not been taken up in the same way as those under the big dealers . |
| 9 | As in the UK , researchers who need more for a specific project can also go to funding agencies which can be public , such as the German Research Society ( Deutsche Forschungs gemeinschaft or DFG ) , or private — the Volkswagen research fund is the biggest of these . |
| 10 | Such rewards are offered as prizes in a competition to those individuals or groups who perform best against a specific set of objectives . |
| 11 | And while the UK red-and-white breeds might seem the obvious target for NRF salesmen , Prof King believes breeders of black-and-white cattle who shy away from the extreme Holstein type may find the NRF of interest . |
| 12 | Now the school bus , full of disappointed kids , wends it 's way twice daily down a country lane lined with equally disappointed farmers who stare wistfully into the distance , recalling the heady days of four-legged Formula 1 racing ! |
| 13 | He believes that sheep farmers who think only about the pound in their pocket could be doing themselves a great disservice . |
| 14 | The cross-shareholding system is protective , but the protection is provided by owners who care directly about the fate and performance of the firm . |
| 15 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 16 | The interviewer is seeking to interview a sample of housewives on an estate about , let us say , the work-day pattern of wives who work only within the home . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , there are drawbacks to any service staffed by professionals who work only within the confines of their traditional remit . |
| 18 | The alleged cancer risk found in the American studies was re-examined and rejected by the Committee on Toxicity , a panel of scientists who work jointly for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Health . |
| 19 | It has been turned over to SunSoft 's Distributed Object Council , a group of unidentified object developers and major end users who meet frequently with the company to discuss product specifications and plans , for feedback . |
| 20 | It has been turned over to SunSoft 's Distributed Object Council , a group of unidentified object developers and major end users who meet frequently with the company to discuss product specifications and plans , for feedback . |
| 21 | Only , what he gets is one of Charlie 's list of ringers , girls who look enough like the real thing to justify what he charges . |
| 22 | ‘ And you know the two foresters who live here in the village : they 're fine when they 're at home , but when they go to the village they 're responsible for , in Dolpo , I bet they carry on like all the others do , terrorizing people . |
| 23 | You know there must be men who work directly for the King . |
| 24 | The difficulty will be to find specialists who know enough about the groups concerned to be able to single out the new one . |
| 25 | Harris fell foul of Heston 's neurosis about actors who arrive late on the set , and found himself being reprimanded by the man who personified Moses to most moviegoers . |
| 26 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know any advanced skiers who ski better with a brace than before their injury , so do n't push your luck . |
| 28 | Students who do well in the three years of the MA(General) may choose to proceed for a further year to obtain the MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 29 | The visitor to the Museo Guarnacci of Volterra is not likely to forget the series of urns with strange scenes of marauding Celts who run away from a Fury . |
| 30 | A bid to reduce bills for rural householders who live away from the district 's three main cemeteries , by making them pay less for burial services , was narrowly defeated . |