Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The perception of shape and pattern in apparently disorderly ( but dynamic and mobile ) things is usually mentioned with reference to visual perception , and it is commented on in the sciences and the arts alike : it is prominent , for example , in the notebooks of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( J. Milroy , 1977 ) , in his careful descriptions of cloud formations , waterfalls and other dynamic phenomena , and much of the poet 's imagery depends on a kind of ‘ observer 's paradox ’ ( rather different from the familiar Labov version ) , through which a dynamic phenomenon can nonetheless appear to have stable shapes and patterns within it and , conversely , a static phenomenon may appear to contain mobility . |
| 2 | My purpose here will be to give a very brief sketch of what each of the theories attempts and to direct the interested reader to a few of the many other books that do give detailed accounts and critiques of them . |
| 3 | They are helping each other understand their different experiences of life , and their different views and attitudes towards it . |
| 4 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 5 | There was a score of different accents and tongues around her as she stood there , but not the one she wanted . |
| 6 | During the remainder of Richard 's short reign , Sir Edmond 's career prospered : royal warrants and letters patent conferred further honours and duties upon him . |
| 7 | So you could actually come back with some fair old bumps and bruises on you could you ? |
| 8 | He kept their backsides so warm you could have fried eggs and bacon on them ! |
| 9 | This early text already exemplifies the pattern of narrative passages and meditations upon them which became the regular mode of presentation in the fuller texts of 1805 and 1850 ; and the sophisticated author is only too aware of the division within himself which the method leads to : |
| 10 | Erm I 've started writing off , we 've drafted a letter to write off to different colleges and sort of I 'll write off before I do my exams . |
| 11 | Some mushrooms and onions in it wi with a bit of herbs and a |
| 12 | Some curtains and carpets for us . |
| 13 | He 's they 've opened an account with us and had a few bits and baps off us , so |
| 14 | But there are moments when we experience the charm and courtesy which drew English men and women to him as helpers in his continental mission . |
| 15 | Her are some tips and space for you to keep track of your progress . |
| 16 | By the way , she has sent some letters and notes for you . |
| 17 | Just get a few odds and ends like you know |
| 18 | The the tables are very erm old fashioned wooden ones and sort of you know how you get your legs under sort of well like a bottom lip . |
| 19 | There was n't nothing to be afraid of — it was only a side bit with some trolleys and stuff in it . |
| 20 | The team has a few ifs and buts about it . |
| 21 | It may be that one cell which habitually fed by flowing round other particles , took some bacteria and blue-greens within it and these , instead of being digested , survived to collaborate in a communal life of hitherto unparalleled intimacy . |
| 22 | if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it . |
| 23 | The features of such plans and examples of them can be found in the books of Wehman and Sailor . |
| 24 | A fortune brings serious worries and responsibilities with it , which I could hardly imagine . |
| 25 | Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints . |
| 26 | Well , I do n't suppose we 'll ever know the real ins and outs of it . |
| 27 | Students will be asked to analyse and evaluate the learning gained as a result of the investigation and to describe their personal feelings and reactions to it . |
| 28 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 29 | As Docherty said : ‘ The problem caused by the tendency in user organisations to hive off IT to specialist managers is that the real users and decision-makers within them are isolated . |
| 30 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |