Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
| 2 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 3 | ‘ These are new schools and they have got money for projects they want and need . |
| 4 | There is a great deal of evidence which indicates that experiences in early childhood are very important , and that the effects are long-lasting . |
| 5 | Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians . |
| 6 | From his study of geology he knew that the world was much older than Archbishop Ussher 's absurd calculation . |
| 7 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 8 | On the future of Bosnia-Hercegovina they urged that the legitimate concerns of all the peoples living " within the inviolable borders of the republic " be taken into account , and proposed international supervision of the forthcoming referendum in the republic on Feb. 29-March 1 , in close co-ordination with the institutions of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 9 | When the army began getting tough with the Peking students last year , Zeng was there to act as the country 's conscience , but a week after the outbreak of violence he realised that his life was in danger and that he must leave China while he could . |
| 10 | When they are asked to sign a piece of paper they moan and groan , and get paranoid about people trying to peep at them in their luxury . |
| 11 | He was already handing her the piece of paper which certified that she was in good health and not suffering from any infectious disease . |
| 12 | For 7 days count the calories in every piece of food you eat and every drink you consume . |
| 13 | It says dear Mr and Mrs due to turnover of stocks we regret that we are that there are no mini hi-fis . |
| 14 | A one , ju you know , I mean you have complex of apartments which look and then you have the corner , the big house . |
| 15 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 16 | There was a murmur of agreement which ceased when Burun spoke again . |
| 17 | The theatre is a conspiracy of illusion which lasts as long as the audience is there . |
| 18 | You have no idea what a surge of adrenalin it caused when our crowd burst into voice like that , then gave such a huge cheer when a great Craig Chalmers diagonal found touch ten metres out . |
| 19 | His letters from Oxford in his third term , after gaining the Lincoln History Exhibition , are much shorter , less introspective , and full of details about his writing , his plans for the future , his increased reading but , above all , his growing friendship with MacAlister who felt that ‘ his intimate outpouring to me was something of a comfort to him ’ . |
| 20 | In this philosophy he was in accord with Gandhi who believed that in India employers and employees shared a common interest . |
| 21 | He must not address the defendant in terms which suggest that the sample must be of one kind rather than the other unless and until the two possibilities have been explained to the defendant and a fair opportunity given to him to say , if he wishes , which he would prefer to give and why . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the current finding of a statistically significant greater degree of reticulin collapse in patients who died than in the survivors clearly points out the important prognostic connotation of the severity of histological damage in patients with acute liver failure . |
| 23 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 24 | Professor Stephen Holgate , chairman of the Department of Health 's Committee on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollution , cited recent research in Aberdeen which suggested that car fumes were to blame for a doubling in the numbers of children suffering from asthma and hayfever . |
| 25 | Drawing attention to a monograph by the International Agency for Research on Cancer which concluded that the only true protection against asbestos ' carcinogenicity was a ban , Levinson pointed out that this was the view of the best medical expertise . |
| 26 | Some of these are explored in the pages to come : computers which siphon even more power from the people who operate them ; a dynamic but degraded city ; a hippie alternative to capitalism which failed because it never really analysed the problem . |
| 27 | In the case of owner-occupiers the commission had the right of pre-emption on terms which ensured that the amount of the concession ( and future increases in development value ) accrued to it . |
| 28 | In the ante-room at Electricity she smiled and waved to Mrs Whitfield : Here I am , a good girl ! but Mrs Whitfield looked away . |
| 29 | He hoped this strategy would attract foreign investment by multinationals which believed that the more literate people there were , the bigger the market for consumer durables would become . |
| 30 | The garage will inform you which category of car you have and , if it needs adjustment , where this can be done and how much it will cost . |