Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 2 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 3 | He had obviously not allowed his degree course to affect his view of what was and was not possible in the physical world . |
| 4 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 5 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 6 | It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act . |
| 7 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 8 | In the end there was a tremendous battle because , although Mrs Christie expressed a wish in her will for the island to become a nature reserve , she left no money to carry it out . |
| 9 | I 'm not against the principle as I said when I came , when I was on the Council previously , when this was first hanging about , that there 's little doubt about it as , it 's a good policy , but will we get the money to carry it out . |
| 10 | Many otaku make their living in technology-related fields , as software designers , computer engineers , computer graphic artists or computer magazine editors . |
| 11 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 12 | Because her social isolation was made worse by her inability to drive she agreed , before the next session , to take the therapist 's advice to arrange driving lessons . |
| 13 | If the vicar thinks it does he is mistaken . |
| 14 | No , but every whenever his chest goes he 's |
| 15 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 16 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 17 | and the story goes he was stuck within minutes . |
| 18 | So he fought with him and and took his stick from him and gave him a whack on the head and he dropped , and the story goes he says we 'll go home now lads . |
| 19 | The story goes there 's a little carved head which is nailed by the ears to the door and everyone here says that 's Oliver Cromwell . ’ |
| 20 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 21 | And the Board thinks there 's a reasonable subsidy to offer to its elderly residents . |
| 22 | In fact no recent government has reduced local authorities ' statutory duties , only the money to perform them . |
| 23 | So in the end , even the chairman agreed I was right . |
| 24 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 25 | Keith 's mum thinks he 's more like darts player Eric Bristow . |
| 26 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 27 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 28 | ‘ My mum thinks it 's OK too and Lol is great . |
| 29 | Any insect touching it becomes inextricably stuck and very often buried within it as more resin flows around it . |
| 30 | Moreover , just as Moore thought that freedom from the naturalistic fallacy made one more ready to recognize that there is a plurality of basically different sorts of good thing , so Ross thought that freedom from this wrong definition of right and duty in terms of good made one ready to recognize that there is a plurality of grounds of obligation , of which the obligation to produce good and reduce bad is just one , or rather two , for he thinks the duty to prevent bad a distinct , and usually more stringent , duty than to produce good . |