Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now consider an ingenious experiment which almost forces us to suppose that an animal has a cognitive map . |
| 2 | But 50-year-old Derek yesterday defended the bonus bonanza which probably makes him Britain 's best-paid council worker . |
| 3 | If this baseline showed that on average the child was 4 hours later in going to bed , you know it would be unrealistic to start the intervention programme which suddenly requires him or her to go to bed at 7.30 . |
| 4 | Fortunately , during the last few years , there has been a blossoming of research which considerably increases our understanding of how this part of the machinery of planning works . |
| 5 | According to some stock market sources , Ferranti was in talks with Daimler about the possibility of a partnership before the fraud which now threatens its future came to light . |
| 6 | Pierry derives its name from a stratum of flint in the subsoil which reputedly gives its wine a marked flinty taste . |
| 7 | I 'm gon na give his lecture or his talk which probably means I shall get my my tongue in a twist an an an and not quite see where I 'm going . |
| 8 | Otherwise the odd situation may result that a person will quite properly express his identification with a group by supporting an institution which grossly betrays its duties to the group . |
| 9 | Yet though the witches bring his already existing ambition out they can not be completely blamed for his downfall and degeneration as it this , his own ambition which eventually takes him over and turns him into a psychopath , killing merely out of feeling and without reason . |
| 10 | Close your eyes and imagine that you are centred within a sphere of white light which also permeates your body . |
| 11 | In the end they were called ‘ contexts ’ , a term which aptly describes what happens when other material is inserted within them , but nevertheless is far from perfect . |
| 12 | ( Please note I have a colour VGA monitor which definitely colours my opinion here ! ) |
| 13 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 14 | For a horse who usually takes everything in his stride Milton has an inexplicable and very strong aversion to syringes . |
| 15 | Without family guidance she sometimes finds it hard to manage , especially money . |
| 16 | The parable is as follows : In an occupied country during wartime , a member of the resistance meets a stranger who deeply impresses him , and who assures him that he is on the side of the resistance . |
| 17 | Margaret 's partner Richard is serving an eight-year sentence for rape — a crime she firmly believes he did not commit . |
| 18 | Grandmother of 5 , Pamela Fitchew was preparing this morning for her day of reckoning , sentencing by a judge and possible time in prison for a crime she still claims she did n't commit . |
| 19 | The Old Ones never appear in person , so we do n't have to worry about them anyway , but a cultist who only believes he has their powers or blessings and acts accordingly is just as dangerous as one who genuinely has their powers and blessings . ’ |
| 20 | At the other end a beardless Zeus in near-profile brandishes a thunderbolt against a kneeling figure who again turns his bearded face towards us , and in the angle beyond must have lain another corpse . |
| 21 | ‘ It could be very useful to be able to negotiate a discount for cash if you are buying luxury items like a fur coat or an expensive piece of jewellery , ’ was the reaction from Patrick Hastings , a City employee who clearly has his mind on women . |
| 22 | ‘ If somebody 's already used a break it just means you 've got to use it in a better way . |
| 23 | In either case , another chapter is added to a ‘ founding text ’ , a text which both authorizes its own dissemination , and gives everything which is recounted in it the imprimatur of a special truth : this is the word of a chosen people . |
| 24 | The new offering , from the free market think-tank which already has its own range of frisbees , does not call itself whisky but ‘ The Spirit of the Invisible Hand ’ . |
| 25 | A strand of hair which normally covers his bald patch has fallen away to rest in seaweedy strings on his padded shoulder , drying as we speak . |
| 26 | The story which most reminds me of animism ( if anything does ) is that of the angel who stirred up the pool of Bethesda ( John 5:1–15 ) . |
| 27 | It 's a pity this finish quality is n't carried over to the fingerboard , an area of a budget guitar which often lets it down . |
| 28 | He becomes , in effect , more willing to define cases as ‘ pollutions ’ since the agency has grounds for complaint only when an officer fails to take action in an instance which officially warrants it — not the other way round . |
| 29 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 30 | The ambiguity between intervention and objectivity is also present in the fifth sentence which apparently justifies its FIS with direct citation , surreptitiously translating the text while conveying fidelity to it . |