Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , you could select spiky , upright plants like agaves or yuccas to transport you across the world , figuratively speaking , to the great deserts of North America . |
| 2 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 3 | At its heart lie two raised mires of deep peat , wildernesses of scattered birch , where adders sun themselves among the fern , and amber dragonflies haunt the peaty pools . |
| 4 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 5 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 6 | We must not accept an ‘ equilibrium of stagnation ’ — an inability of government or institutions to deliver anything but an unsatisfactory re-hashing of what already inadequately exists . |
| 7 | Alex Brown & Sons lowered its rating to neutral from strong buy and cut its fiscal 1993 earnings estimate to $1.80 from $2.80 a share . |
| 8 | Football thrives on scandal , it is a highly competitive game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players , sudden and often tragic decline in the lives of those whose youth or skills desert them , and the extremes of pain and passion to those who follow the game . |
| 9 | In addition , when a lexicographer either requests a new entry , or attempts to return one , a series of subsidiary data retrievals are made from the database . |
| 10 | Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin . |
| 11 | When madness can not be contained , or attempts to control it fail repeatedly in spite of various changes in mental health policies , the answer is sought in greater powers of control and surveillance , now extended into people 's homes and the community at large . |
| 12 | A simple illustration may help to clarify the concept : it distinguishes between two kinds of " boos " , or attempts to frighten someone . |
| 13 | ( b ) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm . |
| 14 | This simply means that meaning shared by words or signs allows them to be located close together in the system which allows them to be identified internally . |
| 15 | The infamous Stanford Prison study experiment ( Haney et al. , 1973 ) , which had to be stopped because students in role as either prison warders or prisoners forgot they were in role , is powerful evidence of this possibility . |
| 16 | So I will avoid the controversial academic debates and try to explain what power is and how individuals or groups get it . |
| 17 | The need for a radical change of outlook has also been stressed by Bowen ( 1979 ) who sees progress in this direction being made by a mixture of basic and applied work by both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary endeavour diminishing what Butzer ( 1975a ) saw as particularism — the tendency for individual specialists or groups to regard their own field as the cornerstone for others . |
| 18 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 19 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 20 | ‘ Please describe in your own words , how you reached your decisions ( i.e. what strategy or strategies did you use ? ) |
| 21 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 22 | The area is is erm in the main , flat farmland and it would be very difficult to erm landscape effectively any new settlement proposal or roads serving it . |
| 23 | Coverdale training , where groups study their behaviour in the performance of a series of tasks . |
| 24 | Benson & Hedges began their new " Surrealist " campaign in spring 1977 with a trio of 48 sheet billboard posters all displayed simultaneously . |
| 25 | The Institute will be again offering an introductory course in Pastoral Caring , to help those with some experience of pastoral caring or counselling in their churches or fellowships to develop their gifts further . |
| 26 | It is a risky policy merely to ignore really aggressive behaviour , simply to let children or teenagers fight it out to the finish . |
| 27 | It ‘ s mainly the press having to find a story or supporters letting their bias colour their judgement . |
| 28 | We do therefore need more new mums OR MUMS-TO-BE to strengthen our group again . |
| 29 | Once in a while fantastic planetary aspects or influences afford one the perfect opportunity to prove just how daring , adventurous and self-confident one can be . |
| 30 | Where supporters call her brave and detractors selfish , it is perhaps nearer the truth to see the passionately political Katharine Hamnett as developing all the pragmatic hallmarks of the hard-nosed businesswoman . |