Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Can not they too be committed to the view that philosophy must deal with matters of fact , and that to claim something as a matter of fact one must be able to state what observations would in principle establish its truth or falsity ?
2 does that compare them with the customers ?
3 Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria .
4 It 's a sort of That 's right push it through the hole and catch it at the other side .
5 To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it .
6 Although it is clearly not possible to restore it as a conduit care , the same external effect will be provided by the use of re-chargeable batteries with a replica truck and control gear .
7 But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play .
8 It was obviously advantageous to record those events and the aftermath as quickly as possible to preserve them for the benefit of those who came after us .
9 That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’
10 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her .
11 ’ Becke 's revision reads : ‘ He dwelleth wyth his wyfe accordinge to knowledge , that taketh her as a necessarye healper , and not as a bonde servaunte or a bonde slave .
12 When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey .
13 Is it possible to wear it with a belt ?
14 And I was sorry to miss you at the Keppels 's thrash ; I hope that you are recovered ?
15 But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history .
16 ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’
17 That chilled me in a way I ca n't properly describe .
18 ‘ I am extremely sorry to inform you of the death of poor Mary Flint — the haemorrhage from the stomach had ceased for nearly a week in consequence of which her other symptoms became aggravated .
19 Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ?
20 The defence recognises that market makers play an important role within the securities market and that to provide them with no immunity would be to make that market less liquid .
21 Associative and cognitive theories present two major examples of different approaches to the study of learning , and although they differ in very many respects it is possible to synthesise them in a way that offers guidance for teachers .
22 Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper .
23 Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " .
24 That blessed us with the vision faith had won ,
25 If there was no shot in or among the human remains , in the cavities of the skull for instance , would it be possible to find it in the soil , among the sand and gravel and pine needles ?
26 However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task .
27 Far away we can hear the noise of the wind forcing its way up some narrow gully then bursting free to hurl itself across the plateau we crossed yesterday .
28 Dr Mackintosh had left for the weekend , but Dr Lange , the literary one , would be free to see him in the morning .
29 Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport .
30 From long experience Blanche knew it was pointless to confront most interviewees , foolish to drive them into a corner .
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