Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish .
2 Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive .
3 We treated ourselves to a sweet as well .
4 Only three well-executed monuments have been identified as by Stanley , all of them of the 1740s and obviously reminiscent of those by Scheemakers .
5 In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint .
6 Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole .
7 When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person .
8 When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult .
9 BBC has been testing EON on its local radio traffic experiment in south-east England and the Midlands for about two years , and several other European countries are already , or soon will be , implementing EON , although none of the 50 or so existing RDS models is suitable for this function .
10 Certainly , none of the 20 or so currently available soloists matches Gilels in the concerto 's slow movement where the playing is astonishing in its absorption and intense , concentrated quiet .
11 The test machine contains a 10-kW turbine and a 4-metre rotor , which is turned by both incoming and outgoing tides ; it will be anchored to the sea bed and therefore needs none of the costly and environmentally damaging civil engineering works associated with other tidal power schemes such as barrages .
12 We are confident that IBM is indeed primarily interested in the morphing business even as it metamorphoses itself into a new and presumably reinvigorated enterprise .
13 Given the diversity of membership within both organisations , neither was likely to metamorphose itself into a different and more integrated organisation .
14 This will get you into a playable but ultimately limited game .
15 Any agency which places you in an unviable or potentially dangerous position could be accused of negligence by delegation , and so it is equally not in their interests to place you inappropriately .
16 There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex .
17 At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place .
18 Each has systematic ways of dealing with apparently awkward cases and there is no hope of specifying neutral conditions for testing one against the other and thus deciding between them .
19 It was the more coherent organisation and perhaps the one with a clearer and more positive economic future .
20 Black mustard is the one with the best and most pungent flavour , and has become naturalized in Britain and America , though it probably originated in the Middle East .
21 A man who finds a ready market among the ever-hopeful for his protective devices , was shown with a radiation-checker which would enable families to decide who is the one with the leastest and therefore the candidate to go outside first .
22 It led him also to the study of existentialism , a popular discourse among fifties youth , made popular by the interest of James Dean , and whose definition seems to sum up what Nicholson has become : ‘ a free agent answerable to no one in a deterministic and seemingly meaningless universe ’ .
23 I call the first row a zig-zag row as the yarn must zig-zag between the beds , that is , go from one needle on the main bed , to one on the ribber , to one on the main and so on .
24 ‘ Our feelings flow from one to the other but ultimately , it will be Nigel 's decision if he wants to drive again next year .
25 When I saw this happening I began to watch more closely , and I saw that some nights even when she was n't up on the stage Madame had her eye on these two and would often look from one to the other and then back again .
26 Such mothers may have created an oral-maternal fixation in their children by their early and traumatic weaning of them , but would also have maintained them in a passive and otherwise dependent state , not because of their passive maternal solicitude , but because of their aggressive , assertive masculinity which caused them to dominate their children rather as a father might .
27 It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could
28 Ultimately , however , it can only be through increased education that consumers can come to understand the choices available to them in a complex and ever changing market place and be able to exercise careful and considered consumption .
29 He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was .
30 The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders .
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