Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several mirrors in our house , as you would expect , but he never confronts or consults them . |
| 2 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 3 | For both Kung ( 1981 ) and Lyotard , art moves within the area between man 's capacity to conceive an idea and his ability to create an artefact that evokes or articulates it so that one of art 's more important roles is the symbolization of what does not yet exist . |
| 4 | The pain centre is observed by the mind which receives the sensory message , minimises or magnifies it , dresses it with memories , significance and emotion , and generates perception with all its quirky infuriating individuality . |
| 5 | Traditionally , the law has said that allowing someone who is terminally ill to die is lawful , but bringing about his or her death is unlawful , even if he or she consents or requests it . |
| 6 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 7 | It has been found that this form of conditioning can occur much more rapidly if the response prevents unpleasant stimuli occurring or stops them once they have started . |
| 8 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 9 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 10 | Progressively the A examines both the P and C data , evaluates it according to experience and then accepts or rejects it . |
| 11 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
| 12 | It is this concern about what is happening that gets me out of my studio into the landscape carefully to scrutinise its every aspect for meanings . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect that means you do more cases than most ? ’ |
| 14 | It represents a quantum leap that takes us way past our competitors . ’ |
| 15 | It is easy to escape this issue by saying that the discourses of the two groups have little in common ; but discourse analysis should teach us that it is as likely to be our attitude to what they say that categorizes them . |
| 16 | Then it does n't matter so much what you say that stops it walking in front of the bus , it 's actually how you say it . |
| 17 | Everyone in the industry agrees that quality will be the key to success and of course they all say that means them . |
| 18 | ‘ What can happen in one 's middle-fifties one can be bugged by something they say that makes you react as if you are six . |
| 19 | It 's not what people say that gives 'em away , it 's what they do . ’ |
| 20 | The various multi-individual influences on the purchase decision take the form of a number of roles which are : *the initiator — who originates the purchase process , having given expression to the need or want that motivates it . |
| 21 | Set against this picture and parallel to the theory that accompanies and supports it is the idea of the possibility of order as a creation of social instruments ordained for that very task , namely teachers , police , social workers , and perhaps , in the last resort , parents . |
| 22 | Locke 's claim that prior to experience the mind is ‘ white paper , void of all characters ’ , and that all its ideas , the materials of knowledge , come from that source , had been made earlier by Gassendi , but he defends and explains it at much greater length . |
| 23 | Clive uses the Chevvy like a normal family car … he takes it to work and uses it to pick up the shopping . |
| 24 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 25 | Finally , write down the gist of what you hear ; this stops you interrupting and means you do n't have to rely on that useless thing , memory . |
| 26 | Although the mite rarely kills bees , it weakens and deforms them , reducing their ability to make honey . |
| 27 | it weakens and breaks it off . |
| 28 | BUT it 's not like The U2 or The U2s , which is already happening and ruins it . ’ |
| 29 | This makes it vomit and gives it diarrhoea , so you 're flushing the toxins out of both ends . |
| 30 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |