Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rational people do in general pursue , and at their more moral help each other to pursue , what they want or supposedly would want in fuller awareness of themselves and their conditions , and in unmasking self-deception they recognize the genuine want by its spontaneity ; the liberal and rationalist tradition even tends to reject as irrational any prescription of religion or custom which requires us to act otherwise .
2 If only he could talk to her now , Brian thought , get into her mind , instead of finding himself practically unable to make any kind of conversation at all .
3 What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it .
4 What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it .
5 Perhaps you think me unduly harsh to express these things so openly .
6 The deer remaining at large were removed , and on completion of the work of the Commissioners the forests were declared to be disafforested , and no one henceforth liable to pay any penalty for hunting therein , except in enclosed parks .
7 I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’
8 We nearly all have these triggers .
9 We virtually all take some pleasure in the pleasure of others and find pain in their suffering .
10 ‘ We know that we have done everything humanly possible to prevent any incident from happening but nobody can be 100 per cent sure .
11 Describing everyone as neurotic makes any distinction between normality and neurosis impossible .
12 They nearly all have some things in common .
13 The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine .
14 It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation .
15 ‘ He wo n't find it so easy to get another wife , ’ she said to Owen .
16 Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur .
17 Recent concessions on recording television programmes have made it much easier to use this type of material in education .
18 The establishment of the idea that the telling of the truth is thus subject to standards set by the use of a volume which is part history and part fiction , is almost tantamount to condoning the telling of untruths when the ritual is omitted , or at least making it much easier to justify such behaviour .
19 But this made it extremely difficult to follow any strategy of industrial reorganisation ; and in this respect there are interesting parallels between the late 1960s and the late 1940s .
20 Attending the performance of a pastiche Jacobean tragedy , she attempts to incorporate lines from this play into the evidence she is piecing together , but then finds it utterly impossible to locate any edition which would confirm the lines she heard .
21 No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others .
22 Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself .
23 But the scale of the buy-outs might make it more difficult to maintain that position .
24 Our patients were manifesting potentially dangerous hypoxaemia , and we did not consider it ethically appropriate to withhold this form of treatment .
25 Look at the plot for Double Dragon , where the big , butch males are sent t rescue the helpless female who does nothing but scream — is it really any wonder that home computing has become an all-male preserve ?
26 ‘ Students are finding it increasingly difficult to get that experience .
27 The current financial situation facing local education authorities and academic institution makes it particularly difficult to overcome these problems without cooperation .
28 In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury .
29 ‘ I find it almost impossible to imagine any frequenter of this club using a lap-top computer .
30 To follow that rule uncritically for Margery Kempe would make it virtually impossible to reach any conclusion about her from a modern psychiatric viewpoint , given the religious climate of her times .
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