Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do the following gestures or attitudes mean to you ? |
| 2 | As the available range of therapies and treatments grows , there is no doubt that opportunities for in-depth specialisation in supporting patients or clients grow with it . |
| 3 | I shall take these categories one at a time , and simply state what deictic terms or elements occur in them ; but it must always be remembered that every item depends on its use within certain contexts and under certain conditions . |
| 4 | Such parents value obedience as a virtue and favour punitive , forceful measures to curb self-will at those points where the child 's actions or beliefs conflict with what they think is proper conduct . |
| 5 | At this point , cars or bicycles come into their own . |
| 6 | Why do not schools or colleges display at their gate or on their notepaper or in their prospectus ‘ Twinned with Philips ’ or ‘ Partnered with Boots ’ ? |
| 7 | 4.24 Sometimes employments or occupations carry with them the enjoyment of material benefits other than monetary remuneration — for example , free board and lodging in the case of a domestic servant ( Liffen v Watson [ 1940 ] 1 KB 556 ) , free coal for a miner , free or concessionary travel facilities for railway or airline employees , free farm produce for agricultural workers or the free use of a car for travelling salesmen , etc . |
| 8 | Earlier , their last day in Korea featured a visit to the famous Pulguk-sa Buddhist temple , where couples flock in their thousands to celebrate their love . |
| 9 | At the archway which divides the suyo of puro papa , where women sit on their hunkers , feet planted in the soft earth , and hack small potatoes out with their hoes , and the suyo of pura oca with its neat rows of bunched , dark green leaves , carriers stop and rest their bundles on the wall . |
| 10 | where nurses pass by him . |
| 11 | Such societies or covens batten on their own secrecy . |
| 12 | A second advantage is that children 's " errors " or incompetences reveal to us what adult competences in verbal interaction must involve . |
| 13 | On the one hand , the prolegs or gills develop from what seem to be the abdominal appendages of the polypod embryo ( Friedman , 1934 ) . |
| 14 | Turner , however , also allowed for the possibility that rituals do in themselves provoke strong emotions ; emotions which then have to be directed . |
| 15 | It takes death and makes it so beautiful that dervishes hasten to it ; it takes tears and makes of them a substance more precious than pearls . |
| 16 | Much more promising avenues are opened up by those schools of thought that combine a description of the structure of texts with an account of the knowledge and attitudes that readers bring with them and of the process to which they subject them : some versions of structuralism ; and phenomenological and related theories , which study the process by which readers create meaning in a text with much more attention to the text itself than Richards ever allowed . |
| 17 | Marion sees her job as one of consolidation and development — taking further the work done by her predecessor Kim Traynor and making sure that schools know about it and are happy with the content and direction . |
| 18 | A more obvious , but perhaps more important , reason is that animals differ in their strength , and weaker animals will be selected to avoid fights with stronger adversaries . |
| 19 | It is quite right that we should recognise the contribution that authors make to our cultural and literary life . |
| 20 | It is often assumed that clients interfere with their ulcers between treatments to ensure the community nurse will revisit and meet their need for social contact . |
| 21 | The emotive function uses words to evoke subjective feelings or attitudes , by means of the associations that words carry with them . |
| 22 | The thesis of ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ , that the meaning of the words in a text is , and should be treated as , a matter of public knowledge , seems wholly unexceptionable as far as the dictionary-definition ( the ‘ denotation ’ ) of words is concerned ; but it seems much more problematic when one takes account of the broader associations that words carry with them ( ‘ connotations ’ ) . |
| 23 | Again my concern about that is that Trusts bring with them a shroud of secrecy , able to do business behind closed doors . |
| 24 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 25 | I think that that is the sort of choice that parents want for their children , and it widens the opportunities in education . |
| 26 | And it will isolate the more effective techniques that parents have at their disposal for communicating with their children . |
| 27 | He said he wanted to establish that countries deal with their own waste but he felt it was too early to impose a complete ban on imports . |
| 28 | Special programmes must be provided where needed to address the problems that refugees face through their past circumstances to give them equality of opportunity and to avoid eroding their talents and initiative . |
| 29 | This could either indicate that online services are failing to be useful , which is doubtful given the significant use that planners make of them , or that the online services have not lived up to the planners ' expectations . |
| 30 | Elite autonomy means simply that circumstances exist in which the political elites representing a given social group can bargain on behalf of ‘ their ’ communities without fearing that compromises will lead to their removal and the substitution of a new elite for the social group . |