Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 2 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 3 | The comparative method in sociology will be discussed in chapter 3 , but essentially consists of the sociologist assembling data about several societies or social contexts and comparing them with each other , with the intention of explaining the causes of any variations . |
| 4 | For some , the reason is one of choice ; they do not have a job or social links that tie them to a 24 hour day . |
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| 6 | Further , a widespread parish response to famine-level prices was to purchase supplies of wheat or substitute foodstuffs and re-sell them at subsidised prices to the poor . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , certain commentators ( particularly Atkinson , 1984 ; Meager , 1985 ) have seized upon these or similar examples and Presented them as showing the direction which personnel policy ( and here their writings are rather unclear ) is , or should be taking to cope with the challenges posed by a rapidly changing , increasingly competitive economic environment . |
| 8 | Without doing anything at all he could make things happen for which he must be punished with slaps , missed meals or verbal assaults that left him trembling and incoherent . |
| 9 | What I do is chop the luncheon meat into cubes just big enough for a size 8 or 10 hook and mix them with damp groundbait . |
| 10 | Paint them deep matt , eggshell or shiny gloss and hang them with pictures or a collection of some sort . |
| 11 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 12 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 13 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 14 | They are always ready to rescue and support sick or injured animals and help them to the surface to breathe , in the same way that mothers and ‘ aunts ’ will help their young to take their first breath . |
| 15 | For that reason , the majority are likely to be studying technical or vocational subjects that equip them with more immediately useful skills . |
| 16 | In Allied Dunbar ( Frank Weisinger ) Ltd v Frank Weisinger [ 1988 ] IRLR 60 Millett J when discussing a clause which prevented soliciting ( but not dealing ) appeared to give judicial approval to the defendant 's understanding that the clause prevented him approaching a client on a secret or confidential basis and telling him that " he can still advise him but only if the client makes the approach " . |
| 17 | for a period of five or ten years and lease it off them and then have to maintain it . |
| 18 | Without going to look at it , does the face of that clock bear Roman or Arabic numerals or does it have dots or other symbols to mark the numbers ? |
| 19 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 20 | You can choose a white fir , green fir or blue-green fir and take it home already cut , root-balled or complete with all its roots . |
| 21 | The question I think we should ask is not , ‘ Is violence learnt or innate ? ’ , but rather , ‘ What are the ideological constructs that encourage violent or peaceful behaviour and make it meaningful and proper ? ’ , and the closely related one , ‘ What do the behaviour patterns mean to the participants ? ’ |
| 22 | Four or five bars and tell me what you notice about bar three . |
| 23 | Since then much theoretical work has been directed at this short-sighted empiricism , uncovering the pattern of cultural or ideological assumptions that supported it . |
| 24 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 25 | He spent a great deal of time in similar situations , seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners , their lives and at least one cause of their distress . |
| 26 | Get green material or green paper and cut it into the shape of lily pond leaves . |
| 27 | And er he er we used to go there and play with , you know , three or four hours and keep him company , like . |
| 28 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 29 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 30 | At first , they went to the bond markets , especially offshore ones , raising dollars or Swiss francs and swapping them for yen . |