Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The functionalist tendencies we have detected in Tylor loom much larger in the work of his French contemporary , Emile Durkheim ( 1858–1917 ) , the last and greatest of the forerunners of modern social anthropology to be discussed here . |
| 2 | When I returned , to my horror , I discovered a dive computer I had borrowed was missing . |
| 3 | For instance , at Sussex University we have developed a system called Pop Eleven , which , like BASIC , is fully interactive , like PASCAL , has structures which enable you to do complex things . |
| 4 | At Sussex University I had harboured hopes of getting very personal with Sally Drayton . |
| 5 | Experts say it 's one of the worst allergy cases they 've seen . |
| 6 | Her brothers all smoked yet when Mickey had seen his sister smoking he had snatched the cigarette from her hand , grinding it out with his heel , shouting at her that only dags smoked . |
| 7 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 8 | They offer a challenge to any simplistic view of the relative skills of the ‘ lay ’ parent and the ‘ professional ’ teacher , by demonstrating that while parents may never be conscious of the teaching strategies they use to help their child acquire language , they are in a very important sense , their children 's teachers . |
| 9 | I take it as you are on income support you 've got no savings at all . |
| 10 | but point is Teresa , would you , if you went back on Income Support you 've got that job club thing again do n't you ? |
| 11 | On the subject of practical , electronic-type computer projects I have to say that I too miss them . |
| 12 | But to really appreciate a Woodstock kitchen you have to look deeper than the cabinet door . |
| 13 | Having secured seats on the saloon deck we went to look about us , and saw another large flock of sheep being driven down the quay towards our steamer . |
| 14 | What became real to her was not Therese Aschmann , but the tiny diamond and garnet engagement ring Willi had bought in a shop at the back of St Stephen 's Cathedral , and Gerda 's delight , and the luck they had had in getting two cancellation seats at the Staatsoper for a performance of Figaro , and the elegance of their hotel , and the toy truck they had bought for Georg , which had been so large they 'd had trouble getting it home . |
| 15 | After a lifetime of university teaching I have ceased to believe that the desire to sit at the feet of many masters is a powerful motive with the majority of wandering scholars . |
| 16 | The less teaching experience they have had , the more positive teachers are about frankness and balance . |
| 17 | For each of the PCR products we have confirmed by sequencing the splices described . |
| 18 | But because she was widowed , the community no longer supported her and she eked out a living for herself and her two children by selling her cow 's milk together with any wood , grass or cow dung she managed to collect . |
| 19 | ‘ The deck shapes they have achieved are excellent . ’ |
| 20 | But , having used a number of different twin stem units I 've found the single wire stem much more versatile , although sometimes a little harder to remove from stubborn placements . |
| 21 | SunSoft Inc is likely to announce that is finally ready to send out developers ’ kits for its Solaris 2.0-on-Intel operating system to the personal computer manufacturers it has lined up . |
| 22 | Since growing up on the Norfolk coast he has painted from landscape . |
| 23 | It had been far from the capital week he had come to expect from Cowes , what with Willie winning everything in sight , having to make diplomatic speeches to his own nephew about how jolly it was to lose to him , and then just as he got time to drown his sorrows at the Yacht Club he had to come to Broadstairs . |
| 24 | and it 's be it 's been a very fascinating job because in the course of the years , obviously one has met erm , parents and students and lecturers and erm university tutors we 've got to know quite well because erm there were all sorts of problems as you probably know with |
| 25 | Since ApT , GpT and GpC are cut with similar efficiency in both ( AT ) n and ( GC ) n sequences we have examined the cleavage of two fragments containing both types of sites . |
| 26 | The kind words you have to say about me , |
| 27 | Braithwaite , the Reverend T.E.O. She 'd seen , she averred , Amy , or anyway her car , coming down the Julians ' drive at about ten-thirty on Friday night . |
| 28 | travelling even faster than Chris … is rally champion Colin Mcrae he 's got the Banbury prodrive team into second place in the Swedish rally … |
| 29 | My sister Ann she 's delivered a couple of children herself . |
| 30 | The series originated from various communities and when it reached the west coast I had to provide the script for a new show every seven days for ten weeks . |