Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objects are defined by their function , while actions and those who perform them are viewed as connected parts of a greater whole . |
| 2 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 3 | There may be 32m cars on the road in a country of 123m people — but , as yet , only 6% of them are fitted with compact-disc players . |
| 4 | These researches and others like them are based on innumerable hours of field study in remote places . |
| 5 | The WISARD machine and logical neural nets have structure and function resembling multi-layer perceptrons , but the individual nodes in them are made from 1-bit direct access memories . |
| 6 | Erm Of the total of goods that are sold in industrialized countries , such as , that have been manufactured , only three percent of them are made in developing countries . |
| 7 | Now , with Government aid , most of them are employed in new light industries . |
| 8 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
| 9 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
| 10 | Those lysines in GH5 with an asterisk above them are protected against chemical modification in chromatin . |
| 11 | Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 . |
| 12 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
| 13 | Rereading More Women than Men , I ask myself each time whether the relations between them are suggested with extreme subtlety , or whether something is lacking . |
| 14 | The disk is round , sack-like and often raised up , diameter up to 9 mm ; covered with small semi-transparent scales , many of them are armed with large simple rods . |
| 15 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 16 | Because there are no constraints placed upon the timing of the volunteer 's activities in such a time-free environment , these are called free-running experiments and the rhythms measured during them are known as free-running rhythms . |
| 17 | I am struck by small objects and my nostrils fill with the stink of rot . |
| 18 | It is only later , when I am faced with real life , that the theories no longer seem so reasonable . |
| 19 | My own ferreting campaigns begin in October but from that time onward to the end of the game-shooting season I am limited to outside hedgerows and warrens and burrows well away from the standing crops of game cover and the woods . |
| 20 | I am visited by dense and dreamless sleep before the horrific wakefulness ; hours in which I do nothing but watch . |
| 21 | I am troubled about certain parts [ he had said ] , and I do n't think anything can be — there could be a redaction , but I think what was left after the redaction would be virtually useless . |
| 22 | I am born of noble stock and I am not too proud to admit it . |
| 23 | I am plagued by awkward thoughts , like splinters in my brain : the seventh grade and pocket radios , games of spin the bottle from which I am cheerfully excluded , tight jeans , Bonnie Bell lip gloss , me , boyish and baffled , the menacing breath of puberty . |
| 24 | ‘ I am blessed with great energy . |
| 25 | ‘ I am surrounded by selfish bastards I thought were my friends , ’ I say , slapping my forehead with the hand holding the J and almost setting my hair alight . |
| 26 | When selecting the WordPerfect driver , the graphics print correctly but I am left with uninteresting fonts . |
| 27 | I am left with nice sheets of white paper . |
| 28 | I am excoriated by erotic revanchism . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most wonderful place on earth ( though I am told on good authority that the souvenir shop at Graceland takes some beating ) has to be Niagara falls . |
| 30 | Alternatively , down the road at Chateau de la Muire where I am told by friendly Champagne producers you will find one of the region , s most creative cooks — Jean-Pierre Lallement . |