Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides which , what is so attractive about this surrendering of unitary identity , this fetish for fragmentation that characterizes so much of modern intellectual life ? |
| 2 | A person with a limited vocabulary can usually manage well in familiar surroundings but may experience difficulty , for instance when filling in many of the forms which have become a feature of our modern society such as an insurance form . |
| 3 | However , human motivation is complex : people are not entirely driven by the desire for money or to do as little in the job as they can get away with . |
| 4 | This , as will be seen , can be achieved through methods that have very little to do with the linguistic notion of semantics but much to do with the empirical processing of text-based knowledge sources . |
| 5 | For words that inflect irregularly this is not the case . |
| 6 | Some male damselflies stay with their mates after copulation and fight off any other males who come near ; only after the female has laid her eggs does the male leave her . |
| 7 | It is through reflection and review that much of the learning will occur and PSD tutors should lay great emphasis on review sessions . |
| 8 | Incidentally it was great to spend a Sunday at QP during December and to meet again many of our ‘ old ’ friends . |
| 9 | Later in 1019 , the Chronicle says that Cnut sailed for Denmark and stayed there all winter . |
| 10 | In the event , ‘ the effect of local pressure was to reduce the amount of change and produce rather more authorities ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:229 ) . |
| 11 | " As you know , Sara , your aunt 's income has been dwindling of late years — she was very careless of investments and spent too much of her capital . |
| 12 | Carry on over the field , go over a stile and cross the right corner of field and go over another stile . |
| 13 | For instance , a computer can search he words of titles and print out all items containing the relevant key terms , but if an astronomer asks for anything to do with black holes , he may find himself presented with material on the Black Hole of Calcutta , or titles in which the two words appear separately and accidentally , unless the search procedure is more tightly controlled . |
| 14 | Similar proposals continued to be made in various forms in the second half of the century , though none was elaborated in as much detail as that of Saint-Pierre or attracted as much attention . |
| 15 | Upstairs Rachaela put on a tape of Brahms and laid out some leaves of lettuce and slices of tomato , a cold chicken leg from the deli . |
| 16 | He ‘ felt a surge of patriotic emotion within him ’ but almost at once he ‘ incontinently began to analyse his wave of emotion and to wonder how much of it was due to the romantic beauty of his surroundings ’ . |
| 17 | For its part , pluralism adopts a restricted frame of reference and takes too much for granted so that it skates on the surface of political life and only deals with the politics of participation and the politics of satisfaction to the detriment of any consideration of other less " obvious " things : there is little that is deep and illuminating about the pluralist perspective and crucial concerns are ignored as irrelevant to politics : pluralism is less wrong than limited . |
| 18 | President Mugabe aroused the students ' anger last weekend with a speech accusing them of drinking and smoking too much and misbehaving rather than studying . |
| 19 | Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters . |
| 20 | In this play , Miller shows the danger of over-protection and illustrates how this can do more harm than good to a young adult . |
| 21 | He warned that there was no salvation ‘ in the rake 's progress of perpetual devaluation ’ — all that did was increase the price of imports and bring still more inflation . |
| 22 | Very few alto players have produced as dazzling a body of work and gained as much respect from their peers as Bobby Watson . |
| 23 | There are times when prejudice only contributes to conflict in the narrow band of outlook and experience where that prejudice exists . |
| 24 | Lieutenant Stapleton was very conscious of the thick cloud of flies that buzzed round each of his companions . |
| 25 | Breastfeeding was not found to be an area of jealousy and envy as many mothers prepare themselves with books , potties , drinks , and crayons to distract the older child while they breastfeed the baby . |
| 26 | Test your water with an ammonia test kit every couple of days and change as much water as often as is necessary to maintain safe levels . |
| 27 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 28 | ‘ I lived in his house for three weeks , unable to go out , in such an agony of self-disgust and fear that many times I wanted to give myself up . |
| 29 | There was the faintest of breezes that took away some of the heat , making it beautifully cool . |
| 30 | ‘ These are beautiful , ’ she breathed , her slender fingers caressing the gorgeous fabrics as he dived into the layers of tissue and pulled out several glorious costumes . |