Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | T.V. is relatively difficult to get onto , in terms of you taking the initiatives , you contact the B B C or I T V and say , ‘ I have a thing which you ought to have , ’ and unless it 's really outstanding , the chances are relatively small of getting on unless you are very lucky or you know somebody or you just hit the right spot at the right time . |
| 2 | Be very careful if offered fish as a ‘ pair ’ unless you have actually seen them breed and raise young , or you personally know the seller . |
| 3 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 4 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 5 | Each panel member should ensure that he or she thoroughly tests the case presented for project approval . |
| 6 | The addition of colour , and specifically the facility to produce separations , is of substantial benefit to the professional graphic artist but , unless he or she already possesses a colour Macintosh II , is likely to be of little real benefit to the average user other than as a ‘ feature ’ to show off . |
| 7 | ‘ A person who has symptoms of cardiovascular disease has much more to gain from reducing lipid levels [ because he or she already has a higher risk of dying from the disease ] than does someone with desirable lipid levels , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Finally , evidence is accumulating that a person 's emotional environment influences his or her likelihood of suffering an acute psychotic episode if he or she already has a history of schizophrenic disorder . |
| 9 | The stock editor generally concentrated on stock revision and supervision of withdrawals , but in some authorities he or she also played a large part in the selection of new books . |
| 10 | Given that the theist believes that defining God involves thinking beyond the limits of thought , can he or she also fulfil the demand that a clear explanation be given of what is meant by the word ‘ God ’ ? |
| 11 | Now then , he argues that since in the state of nature erm the individual has the right to life , liberty and property , he or she also has a right to take such steps are necessary for the protection o o of these rights . |
| 12 | If you have an entertainer , this is not likely to happen , unless you explain that you do not mind if he or she just lets the party run on its own for a while . |
| 13 | He or she just makes the evaluations and makes the decisions and that 's that . |
| 14 | If your child is under 16 , he or she still has the right to consent to or refuse an HIV test if the doctor feels he or she has sufficient maturity and understanding . |
| 15 | However , s. 82(5) states that an employee loses the right to a redundancy payment if he or she unreasonably refuses an offer of suitable alternative employment . |
| 16 | Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is . |
| 17 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 18 | " Or they maybe knocked the horn buds on the sides of the bucket . |
| 19 | But under the Criminal Law Act 1967 anyone can arrest on reasonable suspicion of an arrestable offence , save that where the arrest is by a private person ( as here ) he must show either ( 1 ) that the arrested person was in fact in the act of committing the offence for which he was arrested , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person to be in the act of committing it , or ( 2 ) the arrested person had in fact committed the offence , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person of having committed the offence and ( in this last case ) the offence had in fact been committed by someone . |
| 20 | But under the Criminal Law Act 1967 anyone can arrest on reasonable suspicion of an arrestable offence , save that where the arrest is by a private person ( as here ) he must show either ( 1 ) that the arrested person was in fact in the act of committing the offence for which he was arrested , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person to be in the act of committing it , or ( 2 ) the arrested person had in fact committed the offence , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person of having committed the offence and ( in this last case ) the offence had in fact been committed by someone . |
| 21 | Or he occasionally buys a er a shirt with a a fine stripe in it , but he says the continentals expect you to be wearing a white shirt . |
| 22 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 23 | Or he quite liked the idea of being an Afro-Caribbean Woman Advice Worker . |
| 24 | Obviously I ca n't do anything dramatic overnight , due to circumstances , what with my little girl being a ward of court , and me not having a home . |
| 25 | She had said , on her first morning with him , ‘ Mrs Kendrick and me always had a cup of coffee together before I got started , nice and friendly like . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They probably killed a lot of people , and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands , ’ the investigating journalist was told by Robert Martens , who had spent two years compiling the lists in the US Embassy in Jakarta . |
| 27 | and I surprisingly made the final four . |
| 28 | Crawling on our stomachs , making use of every scrap of cover or depression , however slight , and remaining motionless whenever he looked in our direction , Abdullahi and I eventually reached the shelter of a low ridge . |
| 29 | An and I simply add the ticks and see which comes out . |
| 30 | And I hastily changed the subject . |