Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pron] [noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 By articulating the fictional through the ‘ scientific ’ , the novels question the authority of the latter and reassert the specificity of the former as a discourse which has as its function to mimic and to question .
2 Parker says that his sensor succeeds where others have failed in that it works under conditions resembling those found in physiological samples .
3 He says that his data showed that those businesses with low investment intensity did indeed start off with high ROI , as the earlier cross-sectional studies discovered , but that this often led managers to over-invest .
4 Professor Glennerster says that his research shows that none of the alleged scares about the scheme could be found to be true .
5 He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service .
6 He also states that his analysis showed that it is not easy to increase market share through time .
7 Sutcliffe , for example , ( 1982a : 148 ) indicates that his informants reported that they used " Jamaican Creole " with black interlocutors in the playground .
8 The Head of Department admits that his syllabus states that pupils should have experience to develop the 3D skills , but this is far from the case .
9 Too late , Theseus learns that his son loved and was loyal to him after all .
10 The available evidence suggests that its sensitivity increases as the store charges up with calcium .
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