Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 2 | Many are unfamiliar with , and suspicious of , statutory bodies , and limited command of English discourages them from using social service . |
| 3 | They should help small farmers , but not in a way that discourages them from getting larger or farming better : there must be no farming poverty trap . |
| 4 | The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) . |
| 5 | They remain hidden until it is threatened , when it displays them by turning itself upside-down . |
| 6 | It induces parties to submit their disputes voluntarily to conciliation or administrative decision and , in some areas such as divorce and custody , it involves them in working out a private solution , thus enhancing their acceptance of the outcome . |
| 7 | At other times it involves them in working with familiar phenomena . |
| 8 | But my contract of employment forbids me from getting involved in contentious politics ; I do so at the risk of having a court order taken out against me . |
| 9 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 10 | Very few studies have sought to position shoplifting within a broader social and political sphere , where women in particular are vulnerable to a consumer fetishism that drives them to lawbreaking … |
| 11 | However , the evidence that I have available points me towards exploring bad object relations because to understand these , in my view , is to engage with the troubled unconscious of individuals in industrial and other enterprises . |
| 12 | Charles joins me in wishing you a perfect holiday , dearest Theo , |
| 13 | The D G joins me in wishing you every success in your future career . |
| 14 | Women bear children in rapid succession when young and when they can no longer face the prospect of another child , they choose sterilization because it exempts them from having to take conscious and continuing responsibility for their own fertility in a culture which constantly denies women this right . |
| 15 | As regards the Niemecz mechanical organs bearing Haydn compositions : Neumann criticizes me for saying that the machines play ‘ within a narrow range , stating that the machines ’ air brakes can be set in such a way ‘ that the speed is either halved or doubled ’ , and that therefore ‘ the question of an absolute original tempo becomes pointless . ’ |
| 16 | I can not describe anything , any more than you can ever describe or wish to describe a loved person , because that love strips them of possessing characteristics . |
| 17 | The only thing that worries me about taking that out is that you then create a massive empty space , if you have got |
| 18 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 19 | I am greeted by a timid and frail old man who , clutching his hands nervously , thanks me for coming : a greeting he continues to offer throughout my stay . |
| 20 | Well nobody thanks you for doing without that . |
| 21 | Thus a better strategy to employ is one that teaches her to wait and rewards her for doing so . |
| 22 | When one player meets another he challenges him by saying , ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 23 | It has it in writing from the LTA that it would not favour any tender from Tretorn for its Category A tournaments . |
| 24 | But , as one ex-councillor puts it , ‘ If he ca n't manage to present the Labour Party in new colours in his own constituency , what hope has he of doing it in the country ? ’ |
| 25 | It optimises it for distributed massively parallel processing . |
| 26 | That is significant because that covers us for paying you commission . |
| 27 | The guidance , while encouraging social workers to share information with clients about their needs , warns them against recording this on the assessment form because clients could go to court over any assessed needs which are not being met with services . |
| 28 | In essence their class position often forces them into using the environment destructively and inhibits any adaptive response to its inevitable deterioration . |
| 29 | The Germans are a peaceful people , but they have a right to live , and to live as Germans , and they are convinced of the fact that they have a mission for all the nations of the earth ; if one hinders them from fulfilling their mission then they have the right to use force . |
| 30 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |