Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These dolphins are oceanic travellers , with a migration route Of thousands of kilometres which takes them past the southern coastline of Japan on both legs of their annual migration . |
| 32 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 33 | The kind of reasoning that we have discussed , which takes us from a finite list of singular statements to the justification of a universal statement , which takes us from some to all , is called inductive reasoning and the process is called induction . |
| 34 | WE ARE BORN OF STARS is the 3-D IMAX film which takes you into a new dimension using state-of-the-art computer graphics . |
| 35 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 36 | By contrast the peripheral employee is judged entirely on his past record or that of the consultant company which employs him on a semi-permanent basis . |
| 37 | For many black people , this is the only form of protest open to them in a society which is racist and discriminatory and which consigns them to the lowest positions in the class structure . |
| 38 | During this migration they receive signals from the surrounding tissues which directs them along the appropriate developmental pathway . |
| 39 | He 's the chairman of the slump-hit Pearson Group , which owns everything from the Financial Times to Madame Tussauds waxworks . |
| 40 | I want to be a part of the sport , one sport which encompasses everyone from a small kid who wants to have a go at throwing the javelin because he has seen Steve Backley on television , through to the 60-year-old recreational runner . ’ |
| 41 | This three-quarters works itself to death , generation after generation , at the behest of the female quarter , more sapient but no less savage , which dominates it by an impenetrable social mystification of oestrus . |
| 42 | However , as will be seen , this position is entirely in line with a view of Englishness which identifies it with a non-industrial or pre-industrial past . |
| 43 | This time it is not a natural parting of the ways like leaving school that has happened ; rather , an unexpected factor , for example some form of incurable disease or sudden death through illness or accident has occurred , which propels us into a significant loss that we are not prepared for . |
| 44 | After the court refused a stay , lawyers for the investors agreed to a settlement which puts them on an equal footing with other unsecured L&H creditors . |
| 45 | Over the two games , Spartak were well worth their victory which puts them into the European Cup Winners Cup quarter-finals . |
| 46 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 47 | Not unexpectedly , we all learn to filter out data which puts us in a bad light , and we learn to tell our superiors what they want to hear . |
| 48 | North Tyneside is a ‘ programme authority ’ for the purposes of urban programming , which puts it in the second highest division of local authorities for central assistance , which is inner-city related . |
| 49 | ’ Nobody expects it from a well-dressed , well-spoken girl , especially in designer shops . |
| 50 | ‘ Television is fast-moving and relies on much non-verbal communication , such as a quick glance between the characters , which means nothing to a young child , ’ says Dr Sheppard . |
| 51 | The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed . |
| 52 | The average Council Tax payer , the council tax ca n't be more than , around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had , ninety eighty nine I think it was , again a Labour budget which I think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm . |
| 53 | None of this excuses their behaviour , of course , but this is an unusually human account of an all-too-human encounter in the streets which reminds us of a certain constancy of human motive , and of conflicts built around the human meanings that are attached to the social realities of class , physical appearance and territory . |
| 54 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 55 | Mainframes still garnered the largest portion — 36.7% — of hardware revenues for the company , which bills itself as the open systems supplier , down from 44.8% last time around . |
| 56 | Ltd. ( ‘ the dock company ’ ) , which operates it as a commercial port . |
| 57 | Senior officers on the Russian submarines are paid a supplement in US dollars these days — $7 a day while they are at sea , which strikes me as an astonishing fact . |
| 58 | They then fall on to a conveyor belt which tips them into a wooden box . |
| 59 | A small arched pole is then threaded through a sleeve in the front of the flysheet which extends it into a good size porch . |
| 60 | The decision has drawn protests from environmentalists , who warn that it could have a damaging effect on the Danube valley ecosystem , and the Hungarian government , which views it as a possible infringement of territorial integrity . |