Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 32 | Battlefield Engineers build bridges , clear obstacles , build roads or destroy them . |
| 33 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 34 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 35 | Are you a jack of all trades or do you prefer to specialize ? |
| 36 | members of staff who may be required to brief candidates or show them around ; |
| 37 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 38 | Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure . |
| 39 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 40 | In future , students will be able to take individual Higher National Units or build them up to gain group HNC or HND awards . |
| 41 | I wish he 'd get his teeth seen to ; do they have special police dentists or do they have to go to the ones everybody else goes to and hope the dentist does n't have some … have some grudge … some grudge against … ? |
| 42 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 43 | Failure to achieve this goal at the outset may result in a patient who depends on others for insulin injections , misses injections or does them with a very poor technique . |
| 44 | Cities and towns are to be encouraged to reduce the use of cars or ban them within defined areas under a European Commission plan to tackle exhaust emissions and improve air quality . |
| 45 | Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ? |
| 46 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 47 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 48 | He would ride the boy on his shoulders or shove him roughly aside according to his mood . |
| 49 | So much can be conveyed by putting your arms around someone 's shoulders or giving them a kiss . |
| 50 | I advised him in the meantime to send for the leaders of the other two parties & have them report position from their points of view . |
| 51 | Did they in fact have access to the new birth-control methods or did they practice older nineteenth-century birth-control techniques , more suited to the pockets of the working class ? |
| 52 | Then make a Jelly with pipins & put them in . |
| 53 | Not only are the men and women involved people of remarkable courage and strength , but unlike Imperial Typewriters or Spiralynx it is a strike of black workers in an area well known for its tradition of left wing trade union organisation . |
| 54 | Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them , and she would not think so either … . |
| 55 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 56 | So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ? |
| 57 | " Do I get a word of thanks or do I not ? " |
| 58 | Does it refer to territory already held by the Croatians or does it apply to old frontiers which are up for grabs ? |
| 59 | As well as the academic and professional qualifications , accountants who aspire to the de rigueur red braces must also have personal characteristics that set them apart . |
| 60 | These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another . |