Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern films are scientifically more respectable and probably better films , but every word of commentary trembles with piety and no chance is ever missed to remind us that man is the intruder , the destroyer , the only sinful animal in the biosphere . |
| 2 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 3 | Well if I 'm going to read this er at all properly it 's going to take me all afternoon is n't it ? |
| 4 | Paradise Lost , one might say , exists to tell us that death is a just punishment , and anyway ( see Paradise Regained ) not final . |
| 5 | Do n't try to tell me that life is fair . |
| 6 | ‘ I know it 's difficult to talk , but I do n't have to tell you that time is short . |
| 7 | Try to persuade her that life is still worth living . |
| 8 | Cast out by his flock , who fail to persuade him that life is merely a question of survival , Jonathan continues to pursue excellence in flight , and eventually discovers the unlimited potential of being . |
| 9 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said David , grinning at her , ‘ and I shall go on trying to show him that Socialism is a fairer and much more just system than Capitalism . ’ |