Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , such as Schmenner ( 1987 ) , feel so strongly about this that they talk of ‘ the black holes of cost accounting ’ . |
| 2 | South Africa opened an " interests office " in Windhoek on Dec. 13 , 1989 , offering a full range of consular services , including issue of passports and visas ; the deputy head of the office said : " South Africa demonstrates by this that we want to be good neighbours and hope it will be possible to retain normal and friendly relations with the neighbouring state . " |
| 3 | Stevenson commented on this that we disagree in attitude , but not ( necessarily ) in belief , and in any case , for attitudinism , since the two statements express opposite attitudes , they are incompatible in much the same way as that in which statements which express opposite beliefs are . |
| 4 | It is this that we examine in the next section . |
| 5 | Do n't make more out of this than you have to . |
| 6 | ‘ Only a few that we know of , ’ said Merymose . |
| 7 | Staff from all over the country took part and here are just a few that we know of : . |
| 8 | Now you can do this if you wish of course on ordinary plain paper because all you need to do to create your five empty bars I would suggest is we 'll assume that 's your thing there . |
| 9 | That there 's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness . |
| 10 | Now , erm , what 's wrong with this if you think about it , is that er it 's hard to know what fitness and fittest means and although I 'm now gon na spend about ten minutes talking about it , this will be the last time you 'll hear me mention the word fitness , and I strongly advise you to do the same , for reasons which I will now n now explain . |
| 11 | Be prepared to question this if you want to , and do not retreat from any withering looks . |
| 12 | I , I 'd rather finish with the other question , or , or the made by the Major in the press question , are you , do you want to follow up the , I mean , have a vote on this if you want to ? |
| 13 | You know I always let myself be advised by you , and of course I 'll bow to your judgement on this if I have to … |
| 14 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 15 | But they 're doing this and they seem to be doing it quite unstressed . |
| 16 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 17 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 18 | A I have to give you some and I wan na record some more stuff . |
| 19 | I do n't care about my clothes — I do n't care about the money — I can steal some if I have to . |
| 20 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |
| 21 | So er as I say we do accept this but we have to er be careful just how much we undertake , and mercifully on this case there is no time limit , a and also I think we have the assurance from the board of world mission and unity , that they and any others who are , have something to offer , will help us . |
| 22 | ‘ Maggie , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I 'm sorry to make you do this but you have to . |
| 23 | Most of us do this because we have to . |
| 24 | The tidal fall this morning was around two feet lower than normal — I know this because we live with the tide tables , but most people would n't think of it . |
| 25 | The answer is that individuals have to develop like this because we live in societies which have evolved through all three stages of economic and cultural adaptation ( and their frequent partial repetitions and recapitulations ) . |
| 26 | They 're , they 're suffering from this because they want to , they enjoy it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm doing all this because I believe in Labour and I love talking to people on doorsteps , finding out what matters to them . |
| 28 | So they go on like this till they get to late adolescence and then they can have a reasonably normal diet , having said that , they need constant monitoring and they would also be very used to a diet with not very much of milk , egg , fish and cheese etcetera . |
| 29 | We 've got two children at the swimming club here , so we thought we 'd do this while we wait for them . |
| 30 | where 's the beef ? so , so I 'm dubious about this in terms of quality of nutrition , in terms of choice being offered and I think we need to look a lot more closely at this before we jump into agreement , change or in the system . |