Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every single car that comes through my hands gets the treatment , ’ the father said . |
| 2 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 3 | Bunny loves cooking ( she is trained to cordon bleu standard ) and after a lifetime 's experience of entertaining , cooking for her guests presents no problem . |
| 4 | The resulting explosions and the unmistakable scramble of stunt men who are literally running for their lives adds a vital touch to the scene . |
| 5 | Criticising other people for their inadequacies puts a tremendous burden of perfectionism on the sufferer in his or her own activities . |
| 6 | One of my sows has a litter about three days old . |
| 7 | One of my officials chairs the experts committee that laid the groundwork for this achievement . |
| 8 | One of my characters owns a cafe but I wo n't be seen peeling any spuds . ’ |
| 9 | The variety of their occupations gives a sense of the remarkably diverse bases for economic independence still open at the beginning of this century . |
| 10 | In so far as there is merely a local inter-connection among these smallholding peasants , and the identity of their interests begets no community , no national bond and no political organisation among them , they do not form a class . |
| 11 | Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule . |
| 12 | He also seems to have donated his belt and hose , as a twelfth-century account of their treasures lists a girdle made from the one and an alb decorated with gold thread from the other . |
| 13 | He recognizes the mythology of its English adherents , in which all criticism of their ideas attracts the charge of ‘ a characteristically insular suspicion of nasty foreign ideas ’ , but he is prepared to risk it , continuing : |
| 14 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 15 | The sum of the first two gives the number of days in the week , the sum of all three gives the number of months in the year , and the sum of their squares gives the number fifty . |
| 16 | Looked at from the other side , it should be realized that blandly-flavoured foods reduced the strong and exotic taste of many herbs , and this is where the secret of using herbs in cooking lies — to use herbs in such quantities that the strength of their flavours balances the strength and flavour of the food to which they are added . |
| 17 | For example , a loan agreement may provide that a disposal of the assets of the holding company or of any of its subsidiaries requires the prior written consent of the lender . |
| 18 | The resulting drab uniformity and melancholy of mood which struck Spanish visitors to the Inca empire no less than the lack of personality of its inhabitants provides an interesting and instructive parallel with socialist societies of today . |
| 19 | ALTHOUGH the circumstances have been so sad , the staff of the magazine have been reminded recently how much the rugby community will rally around when one of its members suffers a loss . |
| 20 | A school that loses sight of its values runs the risk that it ceases to be a school at all , and becomes instead just a learning centre , the sort of educational service station that the sub-text of the 1988 Act seems to envisage . |
| 21 | The very extremism of its fears reflects a prevailing naivety , or innocence . |
| 22 | One of its shafts provides a bass drone and the other the melody . |
| 23 | The Gothic decoration of its rooms expresses a variety of moods , but in some instances , as in the library ( Fig. 4 ) , qualifies for the adjectives of the Gothic novel . |
| 24 | Kristeva 's model is not intended either as a concise account of feminism 's recent history nor as an orderly , linear chronology for feminists to follow ( though she does seem to think that each of her stages represents an improvement over the one before ) . |
| 25 | It appears significant that this unraced filly — who has been working well — is the sole survivor of five John Gosden entries in the fillies ' classic and none of her rivals has a similar entry . |
| 26 | The germ of this idea can be traced back to the sophist Antiphon ( c.480–411 BC ) , one of whose fragments contains the earliest Greek definition of time . |
| 27 | One of his paintings shows a rough wooden gallery on a house thought to be Willy Hill . |
| 28 | so this memento of the artist at the height of his powers makes a welcome return to the catalogue , sounding finer still on CD . |
| 29 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 30 | It might even be Mr Ozal himself ( he has not ruled out the idea of standing ) , but one of his associates seems a likelier choice . |