Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his highly condensed and powerful analysis , Buckley ( 1984 ) details how the siege becomes interpreted by today 's protestant loyalists according to a key paradigm mediating their experience of the world . |
| 2 | At the centre of his treatise on society , as we once knew it , are upstanding noble politician Sir Robert Chiltern ( David Yelland ) and his terribly principled and adoring wife Gertrude ( Hannah Gordon ) . |
| 3 | He had spent the latter part of the evening in the rather pleasant sitting room with her father , whose wish to please his handsomely connected and honourable guest had taken the form of a little boasting . |
| 4 | He now not only re-introduced Elphege : he brought him back into his carefully limited and graded sequence of holy days at a very high level indeed , placing him among the Festivitates quae magnifice celebrantur , on a level with the Epiphany , the Purification and Annunciation , the Ascension , the Feast of St Gregory , and about half a dozen other main feasts of the Church year . |
| 5 | His proudly arched and glossy neck |
| 6 | Because of his fully integrated and flowing plans , his fitted furniture , and his stripped exteriors , Scott has often been seen as one of the fathers of Modernism . |
| 7 | One day Tommy had to let someone else drive and that man set off at three-thirty prompt . |
| 8 | However , from the moment they can talk , they should be encouraged to explain why they have done something you told them not to do and given time to do so , especially when they are still clumsy or slow with words . |
| 9 | Physically strong in the central positions Armagh 's greatest strength is their vastly experienced and resolute half back line of Martin McQuillan , John Grimley and John Rafferty . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 11 | It must not rely on its long established and unsuccessful policy of educating the public about the true nature of the auditors ' duties . |
| 12 | And the Gospels , not the great illuminated book , but a smaller and stouter one , calculated to resist too crafty fingers by its less use and lighter pages , already lay on the silver-chased reliquary , centrally placed with accurate and reverent precision . |
| 13 | Among its assets are the Grand Theatre , its charmingly over-decorated and atmospheric Leeds home , with an Italianate intimacy to its horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; an orchestra and chorus , young in heart , age , and sound , who seems to get better every time I hear them ; and a musical director , David Lloyd-Jones , who has done twelve years of sterling service and will be promisingly succeeded in August by Paul Daniel . |
| 14 | Comparison between this last work , with its highly charged and colourful imagery , and Avitus of Vienne 's work on chastity , which approaches the same subject through an examination of his own family , reveals a vast difference in the imagination of the two writers , and does suggest that despite the continuities , there had been a sharp change of taste in the first half of the sixth century . |
| 15 | Adoption was intended to create new family relationships not change those which already existed and joint custody was introduced as an alternative and to give some legal recognition to step-parents . |
| 16 | Fourth , providing the standard deviation of the test scale is known , it is relatively easy to estimate the extent to which a child 's score is extreme ( either high or low ) in relation to the scores obtained by the standardisation sample , and therefore the extent to which further testing and possible intervention is appropriate . |
| 17 | The students ' sense of achievement , heightened by the success of their carefully prepared and organised presentation , was an intended outcome fully attained . |
| 18 | Left , Revesby — a house which both Save and English Heritage campaigned to preserve |
| 19 | Cardiff saw its wildly thrashing and monstrous arms , beating and tearing at the dented grey metal of the cabinet . |
| 20 | Simpson was to emerge as the leading architect of the city , which he stocked with a fine series of public buildings , distinguished not only by his skill in seizing town-planning initiatives but also by the splendour imparted by their finely jointed and polished granite masonry . |
| 21 | ‘ … a pulpy magma , fluffy , puffy and dripping , within which alternatively gaped and closed air holes , pustules , pimples , alveoli , cankers and ventricles … ’ |
| 22 | One reason for the ubiquity of Dataease may be the ease with which well presented and reliable Databases can be set up . |
| 23 | Cardiff saw its hideously burnt and decomposed head turn to look up the stairwell at them , just as Jimmy and Rohmer heaved the filing cabinet over . |
| 24 | Their huts were 12 hours ' journey from the nearest main road , and the occasional and always unexpected arrival of the maximo lider was a cause for rejoicing and an indication that somebody , somewhere actually cared for them and took an interest in their otherwise isolated and neglected lives . |
| 25 | Much charitable effort was devoted to this cause on the assumption that improved housing conditions , by removing some of the degradation from the lives of the poor , would give them more hope and greater enthusiasm for the struggle for self-help and survival . |
| 26 | Can you please complete and initial clause two , sign the documents and return them to me for signature here . |
| 27 | Instead ‘ failure ’ is something endlessly repeated and relived moment by moment throughout our individual histories … . feminism 's affinity with psychoanalysis rests above all , I would argue , with this recognition that there is a resistance to identity at the very heart of psychic life . |
| 28 | Party leaders and committee chairmen no longer carried the weight they once had and ordinary members now assumed that the secret of holding one 's seat in perpetuity depended on their success in cultivating their district . |
| 29 | In her densely argued and complex paper , Hodge points out that one can distinguish between the subject , a notion with ontological and metaphysical commitments , and subjectivity , an empiricist notion ( developed , for example , by Hume ) which retains its epistemological function while abandoning its ontological links . |
| 30 | But as an Indian woman , and the only daughter among seven brothers , she resisted all attempts to teach her how to cook and clean fish and how to prepare spices for sauces . |