Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then your man also told me , he said , this is something you have to watch them , John says they 've already paid that for doing all the advertising |
| 2 | And two people did n't , I thought , drift into talking like that after knowing each other for such a short while unless there was immediate trust and liking . |
| 3 | Madame had once heard one of her customers castigating another for spending all his money on a faithless younger lover : you 're such a Camille , he said . |
| 4 | And that must be the underlying , one of the underlying themes i i in considering er this this in considering this review of the area around York . |
| 5 | The use of an evolutionary approach such as this in explaining these phenomena is itself not new . |
| 6 | The title ‘ spiritual director ’ inevitably smacks of something authoritarian and paternalistic and might deter some from seeking such a relationship . |
| 7 | Add this to steering that is not too heavy when parking and direct and communicative at speed , and a chassis that irons out most road imperfections but still allows great cornering balance , and the Metro is rarely unsuited to a journey , whether motorway or A-road , long or short . |
| 8 | Let us say that the meaning of a statement is cognitive if and only if there is a certain belief such that one is speaking either insincerely or incorrectly if one makes that statement or assents to it as uttered by another without having that belief . |
| 9 | The operations of this central process can not be conveyed to another without employing some convention which allows a communicational interchange , whether it be by gesture , facial expression , or language . |
| 10 | We can predict this without knowing any details of exactly what the beetles might use their wings , or anything else , for . |
| 11 | There are various ways of mapping a plane on to a sphere ( or vice versa ) but there is no way of doing this without producing some kind of distortion or another ; Mercator 's projection of the globe on to a flat map , leads to a diminutive Africa and an exaggerated Greenland . |
| 12 | I feel I can say this without expecting several letters saying I 'm talking rubbish . |
| 13 | The whole subject was brought to a sudden climax when Hilbert in 1888 showed that for a form of any degree in any number of variables a finite " basis " always exists — and this without giving any indication of how to find such a set in any particular instance ! |
| 14 | ‘ Listen , ’ Nathan said , ‘ maybe we can do this without making any mess . |
| 15 | The software houses have realised that the skills are not present , nor are they likely to be , and have compensated for this by providing either sample templates with the programs or even cut-down versions that only allow text to be entered into a pre-defined design . |
| 16 | If the focus of helping young people in residential care were redefined to identify the development of personal self-worth as a primary aim , then it would be possible to achieve this by including both dimensions , neither to the exclusion of the other . |
| 17 | For example , some local authorities produce their financial statements very quickly ; on the other hand , they are able to do this by including more estimates of accrued expenditure rather than waiting for invoices to come in . |
| 18 | ‘ Comrade Rakowski ( the party leader ) set the precedent for this by allowing some foreign journalists into the last meeting of the Central Committee , ’ he explained nervously . |
| 19 | The ‘ XA ’ standard overcomes this by allowing some audio data to be downloaded directly into the computer 's memory and then uploaded into the audio processors on the plug-in ‘ XA ’ card . |
| 20 | Now James Drife , professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Leeds General Infirmary , demonstrates this by recommending that healthy women past childbearing age with anxieties about breast cancer should simply have a double mastectomy as a precautionary measure . |
| 21 | The Franks took advantage of this by seizing some islands which the Saxons had held . |
| 22 | Heseltine 's aides were able to exploit this by urging all opponents of Mrs Thatcher to vote for him in order to bring their own preferred candidate into a second ballot . |
| 23 | You can make a beautiful ‘ heavy lace ’ border like this by knitting several rows of scallops , picking up the centre of each loop . |
| 24 | Sterling 's suspension from the Exchange Rate Mechanism restored freedom of manoeuvre to the Chancellor , who then celebrated this by going some way to dismantling the interest rates whose exaggerated level was needed to keep sterling in touch with the DM within the ERM . |
| 25 | You can also achieve this by placing some of your weight through the boom to the mast foot — this is why many top sailors appear to lean forwards with their feet so far back . |
| 26 | Let me illustrate this by relating some of the history of my ‘ Hylas Fights Back ’ dialogue . |
| 27 | He hoped to achieve this by superimposing these mental activities upon the simple reaction time , SRT , and then subtracting the known value of the SRT from the total reaction time to give the duration of this mental activity . |
| 28 | And I 'll do this by describing each of the System Ten products that resolve the paradoxes of the I T department . |
| 29 | The idiom is significant : we attach meanings to linguistic expressions , and we do this by invoking some pre-existing knowledge or other , or some co-existing feature of the situation of utterance . |
| 30 | Schumpeter immediately qualifies this by observing that free competition among would-be leaders for the vote of the electorate is the democratic method of exercising this choice , though of course there may be other non-democratic ways of accepting or refusing . |