Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pron] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She desperately needs security not love and this is what Mitch offers her and the young men whom she likes so much do not . |
| 2 | Here , the information presented as given is that Mr Rowland wants something and the information presented as new is that this something is the early publication of the report . |
| 3 | Why … well pit talk has it that the reigning world champion Ayrton Senna might just be signing for the team next season … if he comes will Nigel go … what 's his future … this is what he told Central South … |
| 4 | ‘ Our statistical data shows us that an increase in the value of the try could have the opposite effect . |
| 5 | The huge postbag on the subject from SHE 's readers shows us that the subject needs far more serious investigation , and can no longer be dismissed as fantasy or wishful thinking . |
| 6 | This movie takes us where no other Holywood film has . |
| 7 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 8 | It is a creation of society , not of individual reasoning or emotion , though it may satisfy both ; and it is for this reason that Durkheim tells us that a psychological interpretation of a social fact is invariably a wrong interpretation . |
| 9 | When mail tells you that the configuration file module has also ‘ Scanned OKay ’ , you are ready to submit the package for approval . |
| 10 | Sometimes I wonder if I sleep too much , but my friend Cully Chatterton tells me that the need for sleep varies considerably from person to person and one must follow one 's inclination . ’ |
| 11 | Addressing the effect solves nothing if the cause remains . |
| 12 | Noting that 3\3 , 3\45 , … , unc and unc we see that Eisenstein 's theorem tells us that the polynomial in brackets is irreducible in Z[x] . |
| 13 | In that rich compendium of ethnographic treasures , Shakespeare 's Bawdy , Eric Partridge tells us that the word horn stands for the penis in an extramarital adventure , as in the ‘ horn of adultery ’ or ‘ horn-maker ’ ( causer of cuckoldry ) . |
| 14 | The Central England TEC tells us that the system of ’ funding must be commensurate with the Government 's guarantee . |
| 15 | David reminds us that the threshold for VAT registration is raised from £25,000 per year turnover to £35,000 . |
| 16 | Mr. Lawson knows it , the tobacco industry knows it and the Government know it . |
| 17 | In the poem you are about to hear , the famous poet , William Wordsworth tells us that the day we lose the ability to marvel at something as wonderful as a rainbow , we lose something very important . |
| 18 | Wordsworth tells us that the poem refers to his daughter Catherine , who died in 1812 . |
| 19 | Now seafloor spreading tells us that the oceanic crust of the Pacific is moving away from the East Pacific Rise towards South America . |
| 20 | In the tent that night we eat smoked trout and Odd-Knut tells us that the previous year there was a fight on his team and after it was over and the dogs were moving again he saw blood on the snow . |
| 21 | Talking of Hampshire reminds us that the left-arm spinner Ian Turner had to wait till August before getting a Championship match . |
| 22 | The ending reminds us that the boys are really just little boys who are childish , not the animals and cannibals we thought they were . |
| 23 | Roger sees himself and the unit not as child but as school-centred : |
| 24 | Local lore has it that the hands belong to a convicted highwayman who would hold up carriage-travellers in the early nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Popular idiom has it that the four themes are very imperfectly combined in the family : ‘ children ruin a marriage ’ , ‘ sex and family life simply do n't go together ’ , and so forth . |
| 26 | One group tells you that the nineteenth-century owner , a wealthy merchant , had a beautiful daughter who drowned in an accident in a nearby lake . |
| 27 | John of Salisbury tells us that a new custom had arisen in his time that on the day on which a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood he went solemnly to church , laid his sword on the altar , and offered himself and his service to God . |
| 28 | The log file for my GIMMS job tells me that the job reached the head of the batch queue and started to execute at 48 minutes and 56 seconds after 5 o'clock p.m. on Monday , January 4th , 1988 and ended at 49 minutes and 15 seconds past the same hour on that day . |
| 29 | It started off all in Melior , with the text — the text I think was in Melior or Melior tells me that the text was originally in Melior with ordinary Melior headings , then when it appeared it was Nimrod with Melior bold . |
| 30 | Martin informs us that the main sellers in this category are Squier 's ‘ Silver Series ’ J and P basses , built in Japan and popular for obvious reasons . |