Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [adv] [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underdogs Cambridge survived a desperate opening 13 minutes during which they never set foot in Oxford 's half . |
| 2 | You can also ease initial strain on your cashflow by taking advantage of a two year ‘ capital repayment holiday ’ , during which you only pay interest on the loan and make no capital repayments . |
| 3 | In all three of these novels the ‘ crimes ’ are those committed by basically good people who , through no real fault of their own ( other than the speculative instinct that is the mainstay of the capitalist system ) , have been caught up in bank failures for which they valiantly accept responsibility . |
| 4 | Hence it should be no surprise that ordinary policemen and women come to feel that the police management and the government do not care that the risks associated with routine policing in a divided society are borne primarily by them : that the ordinary policeman and woman can be sacrificed for the sake of wider goals , the purpose of which they often have difficulty in comprehending . |
| 5 | Most of their important critical texts , Edwards remarks , are theoretical , in that they prompt fundamental reflections about the basic nature of writing , even if , ‘ One notices about such writing that it does not necessarily offer itself as theory , that it is directed towards what we now call literature and not towards something else . ’ |
| 6 | On the basis of the evangelising role of Judas Thomas , Dr Herman Koester speaks of a Thomasine tradition , in contrast to the Pauline tradition of what we today call Christianity . |
| 7 | So was the whole epistle an elaborate begging letter , or was it voicing a loss of nerve , a fear of life , an attack of what we now call angst ? |
| 8 | The attitudinist will admit , indeed , that there is a weak sense of true' and ‘ false ’ , in which they merely register agreement or disagreement , and in which it is quite legitimate to use them to express agreement or disagreement in attitude with an ethical statement . |
| 9 | Our contribution to the liberation of Kuwait ( and , during the 1980s , to the protection of the Falkland Islands ) ; our longer term contribution to the success of NATO and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact — these are matters in which we rightly take pride . |
| 10 | Are there any areas of life in which you consistently deny responsibility ? |
| 11 | Thus one exalts facts , the other the imagination ; both conceal the extent to which they necessarily make use of the other 's procedures . |
| 12 | We hope that although this is not the type of material to which we normally give space , ‘ MI ’ readers will find it a useful ‘ keep and file ’ reference during the months ahead . |
| 13 | Many of the programs currently available , and the majority of those being prepared for launch within the next few months , will run on perfectly ordinary business computers , the same systems on which you currently perform word processing or accounting . |
| 14 | Great Yarmouth & Caister , Norfolk 's senior club , was founded in 1882 and here was coined the term ‘ bogey ’ for what we now call par . |
| 15 | There is no point at which they unambiguously intersect experience and therefore no point where one of their contentions could be modified by behavioural data . |