Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 2 | However , we do know that what children make of television , and how it influences them , is determined to a large extent by what their parents teach them to make of it . |
| 3 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 4 | Yesterday you mentioned that your contractors work to a pre-arranged schedule and it seems possible that they have accidentally omitted this stretch of Station Lane . |
| 5 | Under Dej , the once affluent bourgeois residents of Herastau , the attractive northern suburb of Bucharest , were evicted and their houses occupied by the new élite . |
| 6 | Kandel and his colleagues began by asking what was the neural circuit which underlies the gill and siphon withdrawal response . |
| 7 | The course of a cholera epidemic , for instance , can be reported and its causes investigated by means of excerpts from documents written by people at the time . |
| 8 | So Aaron and his sons must be cleansed , robed and their sins expiated by sacrifice before they may take office . |
| 9 | His legs were quivering and his insides felt like mush , but he stayed up . |
| 10 | He hung from his arms and his body was quivering and his boots kicked at the snow . |
| 11 | Originally , in 1955 , a select committee was appointed to give specialized attention to the nationalized industries : when a full range of select committees were established in 1979 , the Committee on Nationalized Industries was discontinued and its responsibilities transferred to the appropriate functional committees , e.g. energy and transport . |
| 12 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 13 | My oil lamp — and the curtains pulled down and all my glasses smashed and my clothes torn in shreds and — ’ She broke down again into incoherence . |
| 14 | For all their impressive size , they were in a sorry state : their courses choked with silt , their beds cracked and their banks decayed by centuries of long , hard Martian winters . |
| 15 | Her breath caught as his fingers moved against the rise of her breasts . |
| 16 | Her breath caught as his hands tightened on her . |
| 17 | These bodies insist that their members work to the highest standards set out in the relevant Codes of Practice and strongly recommend that their surveyors are qualified by becoming a Certified Timber Infestation Surveyor ( CTIS ) and Certificated Remedial Damp-proofing Surveyor ( CRDS ) . |
| 18 | The motion was proposed on Aug. 31 by the extreme Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) led by Vojislav Seselj and the Serbian Socialist Party ( SPS ) led by Borisav Jovic , but on Sept. 2 the SPS recommended that its deputies vote against the motion , following criticism by Federal President Cosic . |
| 19 | My breasts were developing fast and I was ashamed to see that my nipples showed through the material . |
| 20 | Marshal Akhromeev admitted that his views differed from Mr Gorbachev 's . |
| 21 | Taylor himself argued that his methods operated in everyone 's best interests . |
| 22 | These will ensure that our graduates emerge with the versatility and professionalism to back up their academic knowledge and give them the edge in the market place . |
| 23 | This emphasis will underpin our every action and will ensure that our awards continue to be recognised by education authorities and employers trans-globally . |
| 24 | The head of an agency can not typically ensure that his subordinates behave in a way that is exactly specified ; he can only design a policy to which they respond , and his perception of their response shapes the design . |
| 25 | He says that his ancestors came over here from Brittany in the seventeenth century , fleeing from Catholic persecution . ’ |
| 26 | It seems to me that music television , like sports programming , mainly assumes that its audiences live in the same world and share the same expertise . |
| 27 | Because the major unit of reward is the family , most women do not feel that their interests conflict with those of men . |
| 28 | He could sense that his parents despaired of him and were beginning to put their efforts into his stronger rival and that soon … |
| 29 | How can the needs of individual teachers be met and their strengths harnessed within the broader concerns of the school ? |
| 30 | The girls strolled and their perfumes gargled in his throat |