Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] and [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 | Only three well-executed monuments have been identified as by Stanley , all of them of the 1740s and obviously reminiscent of those by Scheemakers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Given the diversity of membership within both organisations , neither was likely to metamorphose itself into a different and more integrated organisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was the more coherent organisation and perhaps the one with a clearer and more positive economic future . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |
| 21 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 22 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 23 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 24 | It stayed with her throughout the long and endlessly delayed journey across France . |
| 25 | His curriculum vitae notes that his work ‘ keenly combines his observation and experiences of the world around him with a sharp and often cruel sense of humour ’ . |
| 26 | Lovelock sees this dual function as a vital bridge , but others argue that it puts him in an invidious and altogether too powerful position . |
| 27 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 28 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 29 | They lose their often gaudy plumage in early summer after nesting is complete , exchanging it for a drab and less conspicuous dress for the summer and autumn . |
| 30 | In 1993 , the year that brings an open market to Europe , the European nations seem to take a similar view of Britain , regarding it as a strange and ultimately negligible country . |