Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this image of autonomy and of the self can be threatening , too , to women who do have a strong allegiance to feminism ; and the threat intersects with assumptions that have been made in some feminist discourse about who is or is not ‘ really ’ a feminist . |
| 2 | Scientists say the depletion of the ozone layer could lead to increased skin cancers and cataracts in humans and to crop damage . |
| 3 | ’ Denying to Louise that he is vain ( December 9th , 1852 ) , he distinguishes between Pride and Vanity : ‘ Pride is a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . |
| 4 | Pride is one thing : a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . ’ |
| 5 | There are indeed several points at which the parallelism of greater precision corresponds to features that have previously been noted . |
| 6 | What do you think Audrey 'd like , indeed if I know — and Joan 's getting to the stage where she looks at toys and says politely , " Yes , but what does it do ? " |
| 7 | It passes through villages that become increasingly small and simple as you get deeper into the high hills : through Banca , in the eighteenth century a centre of the local copper-mining industry , then Aldudes itself , which has a very nice small square and a Basque-style church , and finally Urepel , reached by a turning off to the left from the road that continues into Spain . |
| 8 | At Belgo you sit on plain wooden chairs with pickaxe handles for legs and eat stoemp ( it 's a bit like bubble 'n' squeak ) served by sardonic men in monk 's habits . |
| 9 | It eats into savings and hurts those who live on fixed incomes . |
| 10 | In the book , Godwin eloquently describes in words and photographs the ills our land is prey to . |
| 11 | In the book , Godwin eloquently describes in words and photographs the ills our land is prey to . |
| 12 | Poverty huddles in corners or squats by pitiful displays of chocolates long past their sellby date . |
| 13 | He argues , for instance , that the evolutionary emergence of ‘ our self transcendence by means of selection and rational criticism ’ depends upon developments that have taken place in academic language : ‘ It is only within a language thus enriched that critical argument and knowledge in the objective sense become possible . ’ |
| 14 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 15 | A simple example of this occurs in languages that draw their polite second person singular pronoun from their plural one , where there will be no overt distinction between second person singular polite and second person plural pronouns . |
| 16 | The emphasis passes from provisions that substitute for family functions to those that supplement and strengthen them . |
| 17 | WHAT HAPPENS TO SITES AND FINDS |
| 18 | The danger in utilizing a theory of ‘ mind ’ to solve the problem of grounding the sociology of knowledge is that it depends on concepts that relate to individual and inaccessible behaviour — ‘ thought ’ , ‘ consciousness ’ , etc . |
| 19 | The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas . |
| 20 | Travel agents in England have already sold package deals for holidays that include tickets for the international matches — five-day games in Cape Town ( February 8-13 ) and Johannesburg ( February 16-21 ) and a six-game series of one-day matches ( February 23 to March 7 ) . |
| 21 | Given the national publicity surrounding that school and the instability and chaos there , what procedure exists for schools that lose or have removed from them their grant-maintained status ? |
| 22 | Robert is team leader in the black back cell at the Coventry factory , so called because it deals with tiles that have a black PVC ply in the lamination . |
| 23 | I agree with the Secretary of State that the matters involved are highly technical and that the Hydrotechnica report deals with matters that have been at the heart of the controversy . |
| 24 | The study has often been used to illustrate the way television deals with events and constructs meanings around those events . |
| 25 | It is transmitted by a blackfly which breeds in rivers and passes on minute parasitic worms from other infected humans . |
| 26 | The Salvage Shop deals in goods that have been the subject of insurance claims , fire , flood and bankruptcy . |
| 27 | At other times he engages in activities that help the resistance . |
| 28 | There are also numerous reports that sailing and other water-based recreational sports can have adverse affects on water-birds that abound on many of Britain 's artificially created reservoirs ( e.g. Tuite 1982 ) . |
| 29 | Third , a federal provision gives tax credits to firms that set up manufacturing operations in US possessions , most notably Puerto Rico . |
| 30 | ‘ This is not to deny in any way that informational processing leads to decisions that have ‘ downward ’ psychosomatic effects . |