Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment . |
| 2 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 3 | First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy . |
| 4 | More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay . |
| 5 | You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony . |
| 6 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 7 | It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama . |
| 8 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 9 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 10 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 11 | Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job . |
| 12 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 13 | The linguistic explanation of legare as a general term helps , then , to explain some serious awkwardnesses , but it is not clear that it disposes of all entirely . |
| 14 | In fact , the Report makes clear that it aims at much more . |
| 15 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The violence against street children is now far more barbarous than anything inflicted on political prisoners during the worst phase of the military dictatorship , ’ said Benedicto Rodrigues dos Santos , of the National Street Children 's Movement , a welfare organisation that has documented the violent deaths of 1,397 street children since 1984 . |
| 17 | Yeah , it 's interesting that we talk about single parent families but the two or three people at the beginning talked about erm , the one parent , the father was in actual fact , I know he was actually resident there was probably his his erm interest was non-existent . |
| 18 | In the 1993 edition of its US Industrial Outlook , the Commerce Department in Washington is predicting that book sales will grow at a faster rate in 1993 than they did in 1992 , says BP Report . |
| 19 | Newcastle had lost just one League game away from home before this and they started with all the confidence of a four-match winning run behind them . |
| 20 | Fleischmann certainly was concerned about the momentum of events ; the news from Harwell magnified this and he expressed to some colleagues his nervousness and wish that the press conference could be stopped . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 're very sensible if you feel like that about it . |
| 22 | But , like Morgan , his main orientation was historical and he contributed to evolutionary theory by introducing the term ‘ survival ’ for those customs or beliefs which , like the human appendix , linger on anachronistically out of context . |
| 23 | How this is done relatively to the subject and the grades will be clear if we look at some of the grade criteria for history , published in 1985 . |
| 24 | The interface , therefore , between aid personnel involved in the field of environmental conservation and government institutions in Nepal is interesting and one found in many countries elsewhere . |
| 25 | There was a library but Rain and Patrick did not meet there because her recollection was wrong and they blundered into each other in a passage . |
| 26 | Ken thought he had got the idea of the play all wrong and I think in that I have to agree with Ken . |
| 27 | His institute 's estimates of the country 's current economic level relative to Western Europe are high and he concludes from this that economic reform can be based largely on domestic resources . |
| 28 | ‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’ |
| 29 | We are seeking to develop and Advanced Courses structure which is more flexible and responsive and which contributes to major objectives of wider access , credit transfer and articulation . |
| 30 | Be careful if you stay at this level for long . |