Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or my sister gives it Sam ! |
| 2 | They cite Germany 's Abitur , where school-leavers are graded in eight subjects , and where their grading wins them entry into an apprenticeship if they do not go to university . |
| 3 | They are especially good as early introductions into newly-matured systems , where their hardiness enables them to survive any initial problems . |
| 4 | Unix , meanwhile , derives its greatest unequivocal advantage from kernel robustness , where its maturity earns it a high degree of reliability . |
| 5 | Each ship is built for the coronation of the ruler and on his or her death bears them off to the Isle of the Dead to rest at last with the ancient rulers of Ulthuan . |
| 6 | The day-to-day management is in the hands of the managing director , and if the number of members or the importance of the functions of the association or its character justifies it , a supervisory board may be created . |
| 7 | A person may say that he feels a pain in his foot , where his shoe pinches him . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't see that my beard has anything to do with it , ’ his honey voice huffled . |
| 9 | It 's just that my dad repairs mine . |
| 10 | My only wish is that my winning shows them that there is always hope , and all battles can be won . |
| 11 | However , it will come as no surprise to the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) when I say that my party has its own alternative to the council tax , which is referred to in the amendment tabled by myself and my hon. Friends . |
| 12 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 13 | ‘ She also said that my father sees you as the son he never had . ’ |
| 14 | My thighs are so wobbly that each day I thank God that my stomach covers them |
| 15 | Not that you 're interested , but my thighs are so wobbly that each day I thank God that my stomach covers them . |
| 16 | The letter is brief and unsigned , saying only that my lord wishes me to call on him at the Garden Tower at my earliest convenience . |
| 17 | I make sure that my face shows nothing too . |
| 18 | I accept that my mother makes her own choices . |
| 19 | No North London native could navigate the route with more speed and certainty than I do although my journey takes me , of necessity , from one plateglass shop window to another , and then via the rear-view mirrors of thirty-nine different cars , vans and buses . |
| 20 | Except my mum does it now though . |
| 21 | The difference between the glosses for ( 77 ) and ( 78 ) depends clearly on boxes , but not trees , having intrinsic sides ( the difference is perhaps even clearer with an object like a car , which has an intrinsic orientation , so that its bottom remains its bottom even when the vehicle is turned over , and its front remains its front even when going backwards ) . |
| 22 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 23 | In this last case the prime purpose of the prize is to benefit its giver ; if Barclays Bank had to pay for the column inches of publicity that its award brings it every year , there would be no Barclay 's Prize . |
| 24 | A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book , but I would agree with those commentators who argue that its persistence tells us a great deal more about the present than the past . |
| 25 | The fascination Or sociology lies in the fact that its perspective makes us see in a new light the very world in which we have lived all our lives … . |
| 26 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |
| 27 | So flowers keep their nectar behind locks to which only a small group or even a single species has the key , which is of such a specialised design that its owner finds it difficult if not impossible to use on any other flower . |
| 28 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 29 | His party , though divided over Macedonia and the economy , is entitled to claim that its record includes nothing as bad as the Socialists ' foolish first few years in power in the 1980s . |
| 30 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |