Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [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 are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 4 | Assistant Chief Environmental Health Officer , John Copley , says people in Oxford have much less of a chance of receiving help than those in other cities , even though some of them are living in appalling conditions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These researches and others like them are based on innumerable hours of field study in remote places . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now , with Government aid , most of them are employed in new light industries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Various surface and subsurface crusts are found in many deserts , but it is doubtful how far many of them are forming under present conditions . |
| 12 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 13 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
| 14 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
| 15 | Those lysines in GH5 with an asterisk above them are protected against chemical modification in chromatin . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I am thinking of unfortunate scholars in foreign universities who can not ‘ hold down their jobs ’ unless they repeatedly publish articles each of which must say , or seem to say , something new about some literary work … |
| 23 | I am thinking of reverse-flow undergravel filtration using a Fluval 303 or 403 , filled with ceramic prefilter , carbon , and foam block or filter wool . |
| 24 | I am thinking in particular of the spirit that came upon Saul and drove him mad ( 1 Sam 16:14–23 ) . |
| 25 | I am thinking in particular of the return of those who have been forced to flee abroad , such as Mr. Oginga Odinga , free access to the press , access to the media generally during the campaign , and some form of international supervision by monitors such as those under the auspices of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association . |
| 26 | I am thinking in particular of disabled students and students with children . |
| 27 | But whereas Eleanor Bowen once used drawing as a means of recording for posterity what was immediately in front of her eyes , I am thinking in particular of those powerfully smudged charcoal drawings of the interior of Darlington Railway Station nowadays she goes far beyond this to evoke the feelings of considerable ill and unease . |
| 28 | ‘ It really was good fun , although I am hoping for fair weather for next week 's voyage . ’ |
| 29 | I am struck by small objects and my nostrils fill with the stink of rot . |
| 30 | I am breaking through old patterns and moving forward with my life . |