Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a proof ( never to be too often proved ) that when one has thought out a story nothing remains but the labour . |
| 2 | However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) . |
| 3 | If this second approach is right — and despite my own biochemical enthusiasms I believe that it is — then the biochemical events that I study are likely to be very general processes of protein synthesis and membrane modification , sometimes described as ‘ housekeeping ’ . |
| 4 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |
| 5 | For these reasons I conclude that as a matter of interpretation the powers of the Director do not cease , as regards the questioning of the person under investigation , when he is charged ; that the principle of common sense , expressed in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant , entails that the general provisions of the Code yield to the particular provisions of the Act of 1987 in cases to which that Act applies ; and that neither history nor logic demands that any qualification of what Parliament has so clearly enacted ought to be implied . |
| 6 | For these reasons I conclude that the existence and provisions of the Act of 1976 afford no assistance to the health authority 's case . |
| 7 | But I , I do n't think it was the total picture but it was one of the reasons I think that persuaded President Clinton to invite Gerry Adams , or to lift the visa for forty eight hours . |
| 8 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 9 | For many reasons I feel that hypnosis is by far the best method of inducing past-life regression : |
| 10 | So before leaping to his defence I waited until another column appeared , which I have tried to read in a less partisan manner . |
| 11 | Nay , I said — at Briar Cottage I live and there I mean to stay ! ’ |
| 12 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 13 | When I set out to write this story I thought that it would primarily show how scientists come up with ideas , design a strategy to test them , carry out the experiments , share experiences and attempt to replicate claimed discoveries , thereby establishing new natural phenomena . |
| 14 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
| 15 | The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around . |
| 16 | When I moved on to Agra I found that the appearance of the buildings there had changed noticeably . |
| 17 | Your asking me as chairman of the board and I think I can speak to the board I think that the theatre has actually managed very well . |
| 18 | If that is the case I imagine that more Scots will wish to take advantage of trust status . |
| 19 | This surprised me , as I had not thought of him as someone who would favour me , and in any case I presumed that he would support Willie Whitelaw . |
| 20 | In my own case I know that the first link produces the last through the intermediate link , and could not produce it without . |
| 21 | I greeted him with the age-old aphorism : ‘ Those who can , do ; those who ca n't , teach ; and those who ca n't teach become administrators — in your case I know whether that is true ’ . |
| 22 | If this is the case I hope that it has the courage and honesty to admit it . |
| 23 | Those got taken up with a lot of promotional work , and in my case I found that charities got in touch with me a lot to open fetes , attend jumble sales , etc . |
| 24 | Later in the season when gooseberries are over , delicious fools can be made with uncooked strawberries ; a mixture of raspberries and redcurrants , also uncooked ; and blackberries , cooked as for gooseberries ; but in this case I think that cream spoils the rich colour of the fruit and should be offered separately . |
| 25 | Yet in this case I think that the block , which perhaps represents a bed on the level of reality , is in the ( statue ) metaphor reclaiming the man . |
| 26 | It 's also the case I suppose that erm from the point of view of a child , thinking back to my own childhood , a lot of contact with grown-ups was was enormously traumatic and yet was considered by the grown-ups to be entirely legitimate . |
| 27 | In this case I believe that it is by far preferable to accept the lack of consistency which we all know exists in papers marked by people , rather than suffer the strangling constraints on what and how we teach forced upon us when papers are marked by machine . |
| 28 | Not much of a ‘ Peril ’ maybe , but if you see him moving in your direction I suggest that you start moving in the opposite one . |
| 29 | An ex-mason , who gave his evidence to the working party , wrote of ‘ a beautiful sense of lightness and freedom I experienced when that oppression was lifted . ’ |
| 30 | In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles . |