Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 2 | The gens is a group of people who act together on an egalitarian and communal basis . |
| 3 | I do n't know any advanced skiers who ski better with a brace than before their injury , so do n't push your luck . |
| 4 | The visitor to the Museo Guarnacci of Volterra is not likely to forget the series of urns with strange scenes of marauding Celts who run away from a Fury . |
| 5 | Despite the hard words exchanged across the Chamber from time to time this evening , it is plain that there is complete agreement on both sides of the House that those who arrive here with a well-founded fear of persecution should find a safe haven . |
| 6 | In all resorts we reserve places for non-windsurfing friends , who pay only for a shore holiday . |
| 7 | The household , the group of people who live together in a separate living space , is the main link between population and housing . |
| 8 | We do well to remember that many can live incredibly full lives and develop a very extensive range of sympathy and understanding , who live only within a geographically and culturally restricted circle . |
| 9 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |
| 10 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 11 | Within any such population it is possible to identify four subgroups : long-stay residents ; those who die shortly after admission , those who return home after a period of convalescence and those who move to another long-term care setting after a short stay . |
| 12 | As in the UK , researchers who need more for a specific project can also go to funding agencies which can be public , such as the German Research Society ( Deutsche Forschungs gemeinschaft or DFG ) , or private — the Volkswagen research fund is the biggest of these . |
| 13 | Such rewards are offered as prizes in a competition to those individuals or groups who perform best against a specific set of objectives . |
| 14 | To British voters , especially those who identify strongly with a political party , ‘ energetic ’ or ‘ decisive ’ probably imply approval : for them , images are at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |