Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 2 | This is a fascinating place to work and during my first year here the business has continued to develop . |
| 3 | She was her matter-of-fact self again the moment Clarissa clung to her and really cried . |
| 4 | It will be evident in the life of the whole school community , and in the various elements which contribute to its distinctive ethos e.g. the quality of relationships , shared liturgy , community service , differing forms of retreat and religious experience , and , above all , in the witness of practising Catholics , both staff and pupils alike . |
| 5 | The Church remained a supernatural fortress set against the world , its walls manned night and day by the committed , its lonely leader almost an oracle of heavenly wisdom . |
| 6 | Both teams have lost their first game so a win tomorrow is vital if they want to have a realistic chance of making the play-offs . |
| 7 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 8 | Where a woman fails to perform her expected role properly the GP tends to see her ‘ either in terms of the conventional models of their own social background ( she must adjust to her situation ) , or in terms of individual personal inadequacy ( that she must be referred to the psychiatrist ) ’ ( Barrett and Roberts , 1978 , p. 46 ) . |
| 9 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh no , you could n't do it that way otherwise the horse would be certain to win . ’ |
| 11 | Wang Sau-leyan smiled and looked about him , his broad face momentarily the image of his father 's when he was younger , then he looked down . |
| 12 | His upbeat message just a day after Chancellor Norman Lamont warned that full economic recovery could be three years away sparked an angry clash with Labour . |
| 13 | The other stage workers found his dead body there an hour ago — with a rope around his neck ! ’ |
| 14 | In total you can not actually pay more than fifteen percent of salary to erm these well to contributions so in effect you you 're already paying six percent as your basic contribution so the maximum you could pay on any of these schemes is a further nine percent . |
| 15 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
| 16 | Whether in relation to Polish politics or other social issues , in our communications-obsessed world only a fool would claim that the diffusion of ideas and techniques is unimportant . |
| 17 | You lose your nerve , drive down to Streatley in secret , change the tape in your father 's Ansaphone , prepare the body and move your whole schedule forward a week . |