Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [pron] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 2 | He says that somebody who experiences the fire of love will find that he is affected physically : he may find that he develops a stammer and is unable to speak quickly or clearly any more and that his whole body has slowed down : a job that once took half an hour will now take a whole morning . |
| 3 | This is a topic on which McClellan himself has written and one which presents a fundamental problem to anyone planning book provision for public libraries . |
| 4 | If you reach the conclusion that the asking price is reasonable , ring the agent and ask if any other offers have been made and what he thinks the owner might accept . |
| 5 | They may even believe that he who pays the piper calls the tune , and that PFK editorial is slanted towards one or another manufacturer . |
| 6 | Do remember that anyone who becomes a member now gets free membership until December 31st . |
| 7 | My Lords , as I would submit , the report contains a great deal which confirms and nothing which contradicts the interpretation of the word ‘ appropriates ’ which I have preferred , and a comparison of the Act with the draft Bill gives no support to the contrary view . |
| 8 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 9 | I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility . |
| 10 | The conditions to be satisfied are simply that the meaning ‘ must be one which lex will tolerate and one which dispels the uncertainty in such a manner as to settle the dispute without immediately provoking further controversy ’ . |
| 11 | Although disapproval of sacred dramas continued to be vehemently expressed , as , for instance , by Gerhoh of Reichersburg ( 1039–1169 ) who , according to Kolve ( 1966 ) , warned that he who portrays the rage of Herod is guilty of the very vice he portrays ( a deep-seated objection not entirely eradicated today ) , anxiety about its blasphemous nature was dispelled as more people came to regard it as merely a ‘ game ’ rather than as a sacrilegious act . |
| 12 | As PC Lesley Harrison lies fighting for her life in hospital the Government should take immediate steps to ensure that anybody who attacks a member of any of the security services is imprisoned for a long time . |
| 13 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 14 | In " Area B " , one of two areas of South-East London where Hewitt worked and one which has a relatively high density of Caribbeans , even white children may learn some Creole in primary school , through peer contact ( 1986 : 150 ) . |
| 15 | In so far as the United Kingdom might wish to argue that it itself has the right under the Convention to retain requirements such as those at issue , reference can also be made to the court 's judgment in Commission of the European Economic Community v. Italian Republic ( Case 10/61 ) [ 1962 ] E.C.R. 1 , from which it appears that according to the principles of international law , a member state which , by virtue of the entry into force of the E.E.C . |
| 16 | Foucault is most explicit on this , arguing that what he terms the ‘ repressive hypothesis ’ regarding Victorian sexuality is misleading : because it points to too narrow an interpretation of the family ; because it avoids class differentiation ; and because it is based on a negative rather than positive concept of power . |
| 17 | He said that he who gives a service is worthy of his hire |
| 18 | It provides that anyone who acquires a holding ( or increases an existing holding ) in an EC-listed company above a series of specified thresholds must notify the company accordingly . |
| 19 | For , using it , we can say that anyone who understands the concept of pain knows that certain sorts of behaviour are criteria for pain-ascription . |
| 20 | Typical examples are cases where one is given notice that everyone who enters a certain house , club , or park must abide by certain rules , obey a certain authority , or do so at his own risk . |
| 21 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |