Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 2 | I married Melanie in a rush , for reasons which embarrass me to remember . |
| 3 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 4 | His drawings and documentation proved extremely valuable for researchers who followed him . |
| 5 | Men look only for signs which flatter them . |
| 6 | So now is the ideal time for growers who suspect they may have herbicide-resistant strains of the weed to get them checked , says ADAS 's James Clarke . |
| 7 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 8 | A special frisson seems to be guaranteed for readers who think they are readers if the object of the mystery is itself a literary ( or artistic ) artefact — the manuscript in The Name of the Rose , the novel in Francesca Duranti 's The House on Moon Lake ( 1987 ) , the unwriting writer in Del Giudice . |
| 9 | A TEST which checks foetuses for Down 's Syndrome will be made available at Hartlepool General Hospital 's Cameron maternity unit from next Wednesday for mothers-to-be who want it . |
| 10 | The latter now hold expectations that they are entitled to know about matters which affect them , their jobs and their lives . |
| 11 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 12 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 13 | The following case example is of a patient who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because of reasons which placed her in both categories ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) . |
| 14 | But that 's what that 's one of reasons he wanted you to go up cos he 's got this letter . |
| 15 | the schizophrenic will clearly have a far more intense experience of any given present of the world than we do , since our own present is always part of some larger set of projects which force us selectively to focus our perceptions . |
| 16 | He has told colleagues in the force in South Africa ( ‘ There are lots of cops who support me ’ ) that he is ready ‘ to lick your arse in Church Square on a Sunday , if I ca n't solve it in two days ’ — referring to the notorious unsolved murder of the antiapartheid activist , David Webster . |
| 17 | I always bake of a Wednesday , just like my mother used to — two saffron cakes and a tray of buns they last us nicely through the week . ’ |
| 18 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 19 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 20 | After the first couple of minutes I thought we were going to be in for a really entertaining game . |
| 21 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
| 22 | Here the viewing of the sequence is used as a springboard for a set of activities which follow it . |
| 23 | I have my doubts about the latter vision since archivists , librarians and museum creators deal with materials which are differentiated by the type of activities which created them , rather than simply by the physical form of those artefacts . |
| 24 | So people have been forced to look at the way in which they are doing the work in er conjunction with er the manual for whatever other book of rules they have I wished they 'd do they carry out their work . |
| 25 | In likening natural science to religion , Winch is presenting both as ways of ordering experience by means of rules which tell us how to go on . |
| 26 | The following is summary of notes I showed you today , I do n't think Rob was in a receptive mood ! : |
| 27 | As much as the militants ' venom , I recall the desperation of pickets who said they ‘ just want to get it over with ’ and strikers ' wives wondering where the next meal was coming from . |
| 28 | The rating on which young people do so badly is derived only from that fraction of employers who say they are different . |
| 29 | Dr Macdonald was consulted on a series of cases which gave him clues to what was to become an accepted theory . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the individual speaker 's ability to carry out successful linguistic " acts of identity " is subject to a number of limitations : We can only behave according to the behavioural patterns of groups we find it desirable to identify with to the extent that : ( i ) we can identify the groups ( ii ) we have both adequate access to the groups and ability to analyse their behavioural patterns ( iii ) the motivation to join the groups is sufficiently powerful , and is either reinforced or reversed by feedback from the groups ( iv ) we have the ability to modify our behaviour ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 182 ) |