Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They nosed at their deep straw , sampled the hay , straddled out their legs and peed , then settled their noses into the food buckets , which Mr Bean and Nutty between them had prepared . |
| 2 | To ensure that individual students were not losers under the system , access funds were distributed to higher education institutions for them to use at their discretion to help students in particular need . |
| 3 | Views about what constitutes a typical family vary . |
| 4 | The Unemployment Society is what will come about , he suggests , if we merely follow present trends and if we persist , as a society , with our present views about what constitutes a full-time permanent job . |
| 5 | Permitting management to use their discretion to run a company for the public benefit may be tantamount to encouraging them to run it according to their own moral and political views about what constitutes the public benefit . |
| 6 | Do men and women hold different views about what constitutes health ? |
| 7 | The bourgeoisie 's insistence on loyalty , discipline and modest contentment could not really conceal that its real views about what made workers labour were quite different . |
| 8 | Ten top Megatapes we 'll also throw in , and a groovy T-Shirt for you to look cool in . |
| 9 | Choosing the right bike for you depends on what you want to use it for . |
| 10 | I think the sorry , Bill , the erm confusion arises because we 're talking about warranties and insurance and most people buying a car , getting extended insurance or one of these insurance schemes , will assume it 's warranty , but there 's no protection for somebody issuing a warranty going out of business . |
| 11 | And then er we used to make a a big chest for her do you see . |
| 12 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 13 | Keen to integrate the building into everyday life , he has made a diagonal route through it to encourage its use as a short-cut , and has redesigned the square outside , down to recreating the original pattern of Roman paving . |
| 14 | To make the young and pensioners pay for prescriptions is equal to having Claymore mines for us to step on . |
| 15 | ‘ It does n't say a word in our contracts about us having to put up with being hit on by every male who thinks he 's got the price of our bodies . ’ |
| 16 | Yet Truman for one commented on the utility of the common language . |
| 17 | Gazing straight ahead , only half-aware of a world outside the claustrophobic comfort of the car , of Massingham 's hands stroking the wheel , the almost soundless changing of the gears , the pattern of traffic lights , he deliberately let his mind slip free of the present and of all the conjecture about what lay ahead , and remembered , by an exercise of mental recall , as if something important depended on his getting it right , every moment of that last meeting with the dead man . |
| 18 | She did n't go into the reasons for her running away from home , but she extolled Thomas 's role . |
| 19 | Ambivalent feelings , mixtures of resentment , disbelief , hope , disappointment with remedies that ‘ did n't work ’ , and demands for answers counter-productive to the task at hand have to be understood and dealt with constructively , and reasons for them appreciated . |
| 20 | The reasons for their getting involved in the first place are multiplex , involving many related processes , which I will endeavour to uncover . |
| 21 | This , of course , should come as no surprise ; the high standards achieved by women in the arts are now well documented by feminist historians , as are the reasons for their having been ‘ hidden from history ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I see no reasons for us to shy away from the concept of a Federal Reserve-type of European Central Bank , operating as in the United States on a decentralised basis ’ , Sir Leon said in a lecture in London . |
| 23 | ‘ It would take very good reasons for us to change our minds . |
| 24 | Those are all reasons for us to have pride in our health service , rather than denigrating the achievements of all our public-spirited NHS staff . |
| 25 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 26 | So there are a multitude of different reasons for someone to join a church planting team . |
| 27 | A great deal of emotive talk exists around the subject of unemployment and , just as there are many different reasons for someone becoming employed , there are equally many r different needs that the unemployed have . |
| 28 | One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders . |
| 29 | The liability of the agent may be the same in both cases , but the reasons for it differ in detail . |
| 30 | The reasons for it remain to be fully understood but it will certainly reopen the debate about this aspect of dependency — chosen or enforced ? |