Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But experience has taught me that this is the rule of thumb that can be most profitably proposed and acted upon . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Arnoldo Momigliano has warned us that many Greek historians , as distinct from philosophers , paid little attention to the cyclical concept of time . |
| 4 | I just the slightest sort of movement has readjusted it and this would not move at all ! |
| 5 | This applies , presumably , to the case where one misfortune sets in train a whole sequence of further misfortunes , each confirming the child 's expectation of what life has to offer him and each giving him further reason to adopt whatever behaviour — flight from reality , antisocial tendencies , and so forth — he used as a way of dealing with the original situation . |
| 6 | Dr Mann , a leading American psychiatrist , has written : ‘ The church has failed me and most of my patients , because it has never discovered the secret of community fellowship . ’ |
| 7 | Alice has told me that that is n't going to be easy for Alex to organize . |
| 8 | My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead . |