Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gill-net entanglement affects coastal dolphin and porpoise species worldwide , and these animals ' low reproductive rates make them ill-suited to cope with this type of threat . |
| 2 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 3 | What am I supposed to do with these pens ? |
| 4 | How am I supposed to live on this grant ’ . |
| 5 | Well there was n't when I first looked at that file . |
| 6 | When I first got into this thing I did n't ask too many questions . |
| 7 | ( When , as a schoolgirl , I first came across that line about the morning stars singing together , I was thrilled by it . ) |
| 8 | A Japanese aristocrat , which I first came across many years ago in a Berkshire woodland garden , is Kirengeshoma palmata , with large , lobed , vine-like leaves on dark 3ft stems . |
| 9 | When I first came across this text my mind went to the Athanasian Creed which describes the Godhead as uncreated , infinite , eternal and incomprehensible . |
| 10 | Indeed , I recall the experiences of the person who was Prime Minister when I first came into this House — Mr. Harold Macmillan . |
| 11 | And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through . |
| 12 | When I first came to this room , I did n't like it , then I thought , ‘ Well at least it 's mine . |
| 13 | I first heard about this job from Mrs Gwendoline Hancock of Ipswich . |
| 14 | To take just one example : people still grossly underestimate the size of the language 's vocabulary — the most widely quoted figure is half a million words or so — an estimate based on the total headwords found in either the OED or Webster 's Third New International , which each contains around that number . |
| 15 | It must have the additional power of a moral code based on a religion , and there is no part of human affairs in which this applies with more force than it does in the matter of child rearing . |
| 16 | They all finished in fine times , some beating their personal bests by several minutes . |
| 17 | We illustrate ways in which these combine with each other and with wider sets of social relations by using the examples of the development of radical forms of local politics in both the small borough of Clay Cross and in the very large Greater London Council . |
| 18 | ‘ So if Tomkiss and Wattling feel impelled to express their artistic bent in any form of … metalwork , it will have to be , I fear , in their own time , and at their parents ’ expense . |
| 19 | What is curious is that the members of this same dominant group which may be held responsible for the emergence of modernist architecture , and its appropriation by the state as an authority , do not , by and large , choose family homes of their own built in this style , which is clearly incompatible with their personal desires and images . |
| 20 | I might just say one other thing , though , that I think it 's a great mistake to see the I D S , which as I said is a national institute at Sussex , as somehow just a British institution on its own looking at these problems . |
| 21 | Though we did not observe custom , generally , as we were not orthodox , mother did her best to conform in many ways . |
| 22 | If A and B are two elements of the set which both stand in some power of R to a third element of the set C , then either A stands in some power of R to B , or B stands in some power of R to A. |
| 23 | The dining-room and sitting-room which both open into each other display rectangular wall sections of selected birch , slightly pink toned and white waxed … . |
| 24 | Consequently , if you do n't feel you want to cooperate with me I shall be justified in going ahead with my job and in leaving you free to act in any way you think fit . ’ |
| 25 | Are you afraid to sleep in that cottage ? |
| 26 | So that gives you this fits with this pattern acid carbonate they all give a salt apart from the hydrogen one they all give water as well and this one gives a C O two . |
| 27 | ‘ What are you supposed to do with this stuff ? ’ |
| 28 | How the hell are you supposed to deal with these people ? he wondered helplessly . |
| 29 | Are you supposed to swear on that thing ? |
| 30 | What on earth was she supposed to wear for this evening with Dane — this evening that was n't exactly a date , yet she could think of no other description for it ? |