Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opponents of the resort to force , and others who regarded it as premature , maintained that the effectiveness of sanctions required their application over a longer period ( this being broadly the position adopted in early January , i.e. before the military conflict began , by the opposition Labour Party in the UK ) . |
| 2 | This is surely the self spoken of in modern terms as the ego , the lower nature which St Paul urges Christians to crucify , so that the true self , created by God and nourished by the Spirit of Christ , may take over . |
| 3 | This is just the approach taken by the second theory to be considered . |
| 4 | This is broadly the position taken by Wolpe ( 1978 ) , in her article , ‘ Education and the sexual division of labour ’ . |
| 5 | This is broadly the version adopted by proponents of the conspiracy theory . |
| 6 | This is broadly the version adopted by proponents of the conspiracy theory . |
| 7 | This is also a belief held by my squad and so , neck-high in wallop , come three o'clock we were eleven hangovers in search of a kick around . |
| 8 | This is also the situation represented by the data in Table 17.1 . |
| 9 | This is also the conclusion reached by MacKinlay and Ramaswamy ( 1988 ) . |
| 10 | A more aggressive attitude , of course , might counsel strategic acquisition and this is clearly an approach favoured by such major European publishers as the Maxwell Communications Corporation , Bertlesmann , Hachette and others . |
| 11 | This is exactly the effect achieved , for example , by the treatment of the necks in the Horta figures . |
| 12 | In fact , this is exactly the conclusion reached by the modern retributivist Jeffrie Murphy ( 1979 : 95 ) , who states that ‘ modern societies largely lack the moral right to punish ’ . |
| 13 | This is exactly the prediction made for geometrically identical animals of different size by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in his classic ‘ On Growth and Form ’ published in 1917 . |
| 14 | Third , using the example of occupational categories again , even assuming that a researcher has selected the sample randomly , only later dividing the group with respect to the property of occupational type , this is hardly the randomisation required by experimental design . |
| 15 | But this is precisely the situation used in our telephone work , and the dialogues resulting from this are of a different nature . |
| 16 | Moore claims that this is precisely the role played by pleasure in all very great goods with which we are familiar . |
| 17 | This is perhaps the situation found by observers of the legal process in post-independence South Asia . |
| 18 | This is essentially the conclusion drawn by Salmon ( 1987 ) in his survey of decentralization in France in the early 1980s . |
| 19 | This is essentially the point made by Barro ( 1976 ) . |
| 20 | This was also the view propagated by the railway companies , driving broad belts of lines and sidings into the town centres , preferably through the slums , where real estate costs were low and protests negligible . |
| 21 | It happened that this was also the form advocated by Vuk Karadžić in Serbia , and for a time Ljudevit Gaj ( 1809–72 ) , the leader of the Illyrian Movement in Croatia , warmed to the idea that Serbs and Croats shared a common language and culture . |
| 22 | This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day . |
| 23 | This was probably a man called Michael Sidnell , from Bristol , who had carved a memorial tablet in Alderly Church in 1732 , and had later gone on to make designs for the court-house at Westbury on Severn . |
| 24 | I can remember as a boy walking to Rochester via the ferry and Wouldham on many occasions but this was only a stroll compared with some of the older inhabitants efforts . |
| 25 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 26 | This was apparently the distinction discerned by Hirst J. between the case before him and Stilk v. Myrick which , he said , still applies where ‘ there is a wholly gratuitous promise . ’ |
| 27 | This was actually the garb worn by most of Hanoi 's pedicab drivers . |
| 28 | This was once a world reserved for specialists . |
| 29 | This was originally a flexiblestrip used by railwaymen to get smooth curves when laying railway lines . |
| 30 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |