Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George takes the responsibility for Lennie and accepts him gradually . |
| 2 | ‘ If she asks you for money and shows you the letters , you can say that you did n't write them . ’ |
| 3 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 4 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |
| 5 | He fishes for oysters and leaves them for her lunch . |
| 6 | Taking account of moves towards further devolved management to schools and proposed greater consultation between headteachers and boards it is likely that training will be all the more important in the future . |
| 7 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |
| 8 | ‘ Is there anything about Toby that makes you uneasy ? ’ |
| 9 | Chettle looking for Rozario and finds him and it goes towards Collimore just cleared in the nick of time by Whitlow . |
| 10 | She is looking for work and thinks she may be forced to move to London in search of a job . |
| 11 | A corresponding cleanup program is supplied which scans for viruses and removes them , often by having to delete the infected program . |
| 12 | A corresponding clean-up program is supplied which scans for viruses and removes them , often by having to delete the infected program . |
| 13 | ‘ What is it about work that gives you the most pleasure ? ’ |
| 14 | What is it about PolaGraph that sets it apart from all the other black and white films ? |
| 15 | When the skilled manager encounters what , on the face of it , is an intolerable set of work practices , attitudes and performance he does not necessarily take drastic action , he identifies the natural processes of change and accelerates them . |
| 16 | This is the result of my experience and your money and a touch of genius that follows me whatever I do . |
| 17 | Then Macbeth seems to have a change of heart and says he is leaving whether he becomes king or not to chance . |
| 18 | Pfrommer dates the groups of objects and places them in their cultural and archaeological context . |
| 19 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 20 | That is the dynamic , historical revelation of the Father 's love , which draws us into the community of faith and sets us to work in the service of the kingdom . |
| 21 | For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors . |
| 22 | If we carefully analyse the frequencies contained within speech it is possible to devise a system of rules that allows us to create any given sound from its basic frequencies . |
| 23 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |
| 24 | Furthermore , both Lichtheim and Barth provide a critique of Marx 's concept of ideology that treats it as similar to that of Destutt . |
| 25 | It makes meaningful an analysis of the level ( or levels ) of ideology and relates it in a non-reductive way to the economic base — the mode of production . |
| 26 | This account gives rise to two questions , both of them large and difficult : first , how do ideological state apparatuses ( ISAs ) constitute individuals ; and second , how can Althusser justify his claim that his theory escapes the tentacles of ideology and tells us how the world really is ? |
| 27 | Democratic theory as an ideal construct may recognise the existence of elites in real polities which are to be explained ; a democratic theory which accepts the existence of elites , describes democracy as a set of institutions and builds them into its descriptions as a central restraining factor , is arguably not in the democratic school and might not even be properly called theory . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it would help relations between client and accountant , since the small company client often sees the audit as a waste of money and finds it hard to appreciate the amount of time involved in vouching and verifying figures for audit . |
| 29 | Frankly , he 's a pain in the arse , but Martinez pays me a handsome amount of money and provides me with a very flashy car , which impresses the likes of young Lindy over there , so who am I to argue ? ’ |
| 30 | At least in the post-Gazza era in which we now find ourselves , several soldiers have admitted to a level of fear that makes them cry their eyes out . |