Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 2 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 3 | I mean I says , look I says , I 'm not , I 'm not saying you ca n't have your parties or whatever , I says but I says not in the bedrooms . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the busy life which goes on in the unconscious profoundly affects our feelings and reactions in our conscious , outer life . |
| 5 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 6 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 7 | The title of Willie van Peer 's The taming of the text is intentionally and instructively ambiguous , since , as the editor himself points out in the introduction , " the text may be either the subject or the object of the " " taming " ( p. 7 ) . |
| 8 | The major culprit is the keeled slug , dark grey or black with a distinct ridge down its back , which lives mostly in the soil . |
| 9 | There is one and only one element which stands in the relation R to all the other members of the set ( if R is transitive ) , or which stands either in the relation R or some higher power of R to all the other members of the set ( if R is intransitive ) . |
| 10 | Yup , this is the old ‘ cultural crossover ’ in first gear , a barrage of noise which flinches not in the face of a Panzer tank . |
| 11 | The huge quantity of accumulated paper values are tokens , the realisation of which lies wholly in the future and depends , on the one hand , on the conditions of capitalist reproduction and , on the other hand , on the very existence of the capitalist system . |
| 12 | The Sernf valley , which curves round in the shape of a crook , is served by a postbus service ( Timetable No 902.45 ) to anumber of village resorts , the terminal one being Elm ( at 977m , 3,205ft ) where springs the source of one of Switzerland 's widely distributed natural mineral waters . |
| 13 | Propagation is by seed , which occurs readily in the aquarium . |
| 14 | They carry negligible risk , a known rate of return if held to their redemption which occurs always in the near future and there is a ready market for them . |
| 15 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 16 | The calyx ( or joined calyces ) then continue into a stalk or pedunculus of nerve fibres which ends deep in the brain by a complicated root system composed of a recurrent alpha-lobe , a beta-lobe and sometimes even a third gamma-lobe . |
| 17 | Environmental data and expertise which exists already in the Corine resource , a project which ends this year , is in danger of being lost whilst the EEA wrangle continues . |
| 18 | Blackening , during or after cooking , is caused by a chemical reaction between iron , present in the tuber or in some regional water supplies , and chlorogenic acid , which exists naturally in the potato . |
| 19 | In particular , a variant form of oxygen known as ozone , which exists mainly in the upper atmosphere of Earth , filters out most of the potentially dangerous W light ( see p. 89 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ For starters we chose M & G Income Investment Trust which invests only in the shares of top companies , ’ says Keith . |
| 21 | Residents say that the farm and shop , open seven days a week , attract a steady flow of traffic which increases greatly in the summer fruit season . |
| 22 | Our College would serve : to collect and deposit the variety of sound veterinary knowledge which floats dispersedly in the kingdom … to collect and arrange whatever the labours and experience of other nations have furnished on this subject ; to improve on this extensive stock … correspondencies and communications should be encouraged … |
| 23 | I also like the look of their new Cos lettuce , ‘ Corsair ’ , which keeps well in the ground , has excellent disease resistance and received an Award of Merit from the RHS . |
| 24 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 25 | Distinction tends to revert to a notion of objectification which consists mainly in the external sedimentation and subsequent reproduction of class interests . |
| 26 | These include cortisol ( which rises later in the night as the body prepares for waking and is strongly influenced by the body clock ) ; antidiuretic hormone ( which is one of the ways in which fluid formation by the kidney is reduced at night , see Chapter 6 ) ; and the male sex hormone , testosterone , as well as some of the hormones that control the reproductive cycle in women . |
| 27 | Several scholars today refer to them as Zadokite , a name which appears periodically in the teachings themselves . |
| 28 | Egypt 's Fayoumi chicken , a prodigious egg-layer , has also been abandoned in favour of the European battery chicken which fares badly in the heat . |
| 29 | A conclusion which emerges clearly in the account that follows is how the addition of fresh elements can dilute the purity of the original concept , sometimes leading to unexpected results . |
| 30 | Only Johnson J. used language which reads happily in the context of a claim in negligence . |