Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was raised in Britain where I took my A-levels and went to university , but I now teach at an American college . |
| 2 | ‘ No , no , I now rank as an important contact , a senior opinion-former , or so she flatteringly told me . |
| 3 | If you now work through an imaginary game between Remorseful Prober and Tit for Tat , you 'll find that runs of would-be mutual retaliation are promptly scotched . |
| 4 | You do n't educate or create a market ; you simply pander to an existing one . |
| 5 | You fully know as an old pressman the difficulty of dealing with a big speech late at night … |
| 6 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 7 | It would also be more appropriate for the unambitious students of moderate talents who currently apply for an English degree , but would be more at home in a less intensive programme of liberal study . |
| 8 | But the ‘ truth ’ is not the point at issue ; what matters is that as human beings we necessarily engage in an interpretative process when we encounter others , as they do with us . |
| 9 | The perspective adopted by the ‘ contingency ’ theorists rejects the view that there is one best model for an organisational structure . |
| 10 | The doctors may broadcast their scripts to a drug-hungry nation like showers of autumn leaves , but they still act as an intolerable bottle-neck between manufacturers and their clients , the latter , poor sods , often not even knowing what wondrous remedies are to hand for the asking . |
| 11 | They also act as an important catalyst for ‘ team-building ’ for Departments . |
| 12 | They witness to a process of realisation of the confusion , frustration , failure and partiality at the heart of even the best of human experience , let alone the worst , which makes them essentially accessible to all ; but they also witness to an awakening understanding of the fact that these are the very means of the experience of transformation . |
| 13 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 14 | I think one of the things the American companies often do is that , rather than set up on a green field site , they often buy into an existing company , erm , and therefore it 's , it 's , it 's a , it 's a somewhat different form of investment to the |
| 15 | Their minds seem " triggered " by some key word(s) in the question and they immediately plunge into an uncritical and largely irrelevant answer . |
| 16 | They then hop into an old Morris Minor or CV6 and drive home to the ‘ muesli belt ’ . |
| 17 | Animals learn to do many things that they never do as an unconditioned response to any stimulus . |