Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it . |
| 2 | It is possibly the spaciousness of design that brings audiences again and again to Ashton 's Symphonic Variations and Monotones , whose straighter and continuously moving lines require the dancers to draw them calmly and to fill the stage generously with movement . |
| 3 | Experience told him that a woman 's natural instinct was to defend herself rather than to hurt the attacker . |
| 4 | For her at this stage , not crying is a great achievement but she hopes that some day she will reach a better balance so that her tears will be for herself rather than to make an impression on others . |
| 5 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 6 | Iran also used the HY-2 Silkworm missile , supplied by China , reportedly positioning it so as to overlook the Strait . |
| 7 | Paragraph ( a ) is by way of restatement of the common law ; paragraph ( b ) extends it so as to make the disposition conversion even if it does not confer a good title on the disponee . |
| 8 | The complexity of pre-trial procedure , particularly in the High Court , has been said to act not only as a deterrent to all but the most determined litigant , but also as a weapon for the recalcitrant defendant who may manipulate it so as to place the pressure of delay upon the plaintiff . |
| 9 | These statutory provisions ensure that the publication in question is judged by its impact on its primary audience — those people who , the evidence suggests , would be likely to seek it out and to pay the asking-price to read it . |
| 10 | The IBA , with an over-abundance of legal caution , did cut such references from a Labour Party political broadcast , apparently on the ground that the broadcasters might be deemed " malicious " if their dominant motive was to win votes for themselves rather than to inform the public of the truth about persons standing for public office . |
| 11 | In central Africa influential movements such as Jehovah 's Witnesses were attractive to those who sought to set themselves apart and to adopt a puritan lifestyle . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State will understand why there is reluctance to change a system that has served us well and to reduce the frequency of inspections from once every year to once every four years . |