Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've already got one , I 'm not bothered about that , I mean for kids I think , I think it 's a good idea because well then they do n't lay on it |
| 2 | Mistakes which they make about factors which determine the limits of their jurisdiction render their decisions void . |
| 3 | Foliage gleaning birds pick insects off the leaves ; bark-investigators probe with sharp beaks into cracks ; ground-feeders scavenge for caterpillars which have dropped from trees in order to pupate . |
| 4 | Hunt for muggers who put knife to baby 's face |
| 5 | This is going to cause chaos in the studios and even more chaos in the home as viewers desperately hunt for shows they saw last week and which have mysteriously disappeared . |
| 6 | When latecomers appear through doors which slam noisily behind them and creep across the room in front of you , do not try to continue by raising your voice while your audience turn to look at the newcomers . |
| 7 | The argument was that knowledge of multiple specific risks enhances recognition while knowledge of a few general risks does not , in fact attending to these risks will cause subjects to make false alarms in a recognition test when similar risks appear in films which had not been previously viewed , hence impairing recognition sensitivity . |
| 8 | Funny monsters , robots , animals — as well as a variety of humans — appear in situations which appeal to the young imagination . |
| 9 | It may be significant that the stage direction ‘ A Composition in imitation of Hunting ’ — not set by Purcell — and the opening of the Act 5 masque , where the theatre score places his ‘ Dance for Six Monkeys ’ but Q1692 does not , both appear on pages which belong to outer G ( pp.44 and 48 respectively ) . |
| 10 | Foreigners costing the NHS millions Purge on patients who dodge paying bills |
| 11 | I usually say to patients who have had an inferior infarct that once in hospital the worst is over ; the main cause of mortality then is pump failure and one of the striking contributions of thrombolytic therapy , to be dealt with later , is its ability to open up coronary arteries and prevent myocardial damage , pump failure and all the complications . |
| 12 | When you act for buyers who intend that a leasehold interest shall merge in the freehold ( leaseholders buying the freehold reversion on their lease , or freeholders buying the lease to which their title is subject ) it 's convenient to express the intention to merge in the transfer or other instrument vesting the second estate in the owner of the first if this is intended , but beware of such an application in the case of a flat — if , for example , your client owns a leasehold flat and buys the freehold of the whole building in which it is situate . |
| 13 | Fruit and vegetables act as anti-oxidants which explains why those in the south of France have similar cholesterol levels to Scots yet only a quarter of the heart disease . |
| 14 | Insurance policies which act as investments which includes endowment and unit linked policies — but not policies which merely protect against risk or pure term assurance policies . |
| 15 | Because the vitreous enamel inside panels act as insulators which prevent the microwave energy from arching , it is safe to use metal pans , trays and trivets provided that they are at least 1.5in away from the side walls and the same distance away from each other . |
| 16 | The most interesting entailments from the point of view of lexical semantics are those which hold between sentences which differ only in respect of the lexical fillers of a particular syntactic slot ( e.g. It 's a dog , It 's a cat ; It 's a rose , It 's a flower ) . |
| 17 | But some of these substances make their way upstream , says Greenpeace , and mix with pesticides which have leached into the water from farmland , and other chemicals from firms legally allowed to discharge into the sewage system . |
| 18 | It is good for a child to broaden his outlook and mix with children who do n't share his advantages . ’ |
| 19 | This occurs when individuals ' act in a way they know is destined to be hurtful to other members of the family , who , in response , reciprocate with actions they know will cause even more distress . |
| 20 | Put into words they require that the divergences of the stress-energy tensor vanish everywhere . |
| 21 | The importance of empirical material from anthropological research , and from the analyst 's research work in therapeutic encounters , is not the relatively superficial one of seeking to explain the actions of people who act in ways which appear as strange and peculiar to the ordinary members of modern Western societies . |
| 22 | However , though children often act in ways which seem unreasonable and troublesome to their elders , from their point of view , adult behaviour is often just as unreasonable and incomprehensible . |
| 23 | The starting point is to get family members together , and embark upon discussions which seek to define and highlight family problems . |
| 24 | Persons without a genuine grievance have been called ‘ busybodies ’ , that is people who interfere in things which do not concern them . |
| 25 | The former can easily be caricatured as humourless puritans who object to games which involve guessing the number of beans in a jar at the church fete . |
| 26 | But we need to look at the issue calmly , listen to others who have different perspectives and then sort out our own priorities . |
| 27 | All the thousands of essential chemical reactions in the cell — the conversion of energy , the building of new molecules , the breakdown of molecules — depend on enzymes which enable these reactions to occur . |
| 28 | They depend on assumptions which have been made and on uncertain future events . |
| 29 | I had often noted this characteristic in reading , but until I once calculated the extent to which the Sonnets depend on pronouns I had no idea of its magnitude . |
| 30 | Not only would she be able to stand in the Commons bar and glare at Conservatives who betrayed her during the leadership contest , thus putting them off their ill-earned whiskies , but chastise those responsible for mishandling the Tory campaign . |