Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers , who live in a constant state of anxiety , tend not to see games as others do and Joe Jordan duly declared himself happy enough with the result which , apart from extending Hearts ' unbeaten run against their city rivals to 17 , keeps them in contention for a place in Europe . |
| 2 | And then the tendrils of her inner fire licked outwards , and the buffeting of the waters around her merged dizzily with the touch of his hands as he drew her closer . |
| 3 | And they were sawing these slates in into blocks , you know sawing them square like into the size of the slate , they were quite handy . |
| 4 | This lack of consensus on the way semantically and grammatically related sentences should be characterized is itself troublesome enough to a sociolinguist seeking guidance from syntactic theory ; but to make things even more difficult , the very notion of semantic equivalence is a disputed one . |
| 5 | There is also the proviso that the theory of proton-antiproton collisions with which the experimental results were compared is itself uncertain numerically by a factor of two or three . |
| 6 | If the 1959 Act had proved itself suitable only for the control of sexual depictions or descriptions where the question was one of manners rather than morals , then the recommendation of the Commission might have been acceptable , since sex between consenting adults in private was no longer a matter for the British criminal law . |
| 7 | ‘ Say , were you round here during the lunch-break ? ’ |
| 8 | Are you secure enough as a parent , comfortable enough with your authority to use it empathetically — firmly when the occasion calls for it , lightly when it is appropriate to be tolerant ? |
| 9 | For the Falcons the main aim of this free falling detachment is to blood the 4 new jumpers on the team , basically to make them good enough for the start of the display season in the Spring and there 's no room for lack of concentration . |
| 10 | While they glared at each other he recalled that Carrie had said something similar earlier in the day . |
| 11 | An old-fashioned green-painted bath on claw feet , a lot of bottles on the glass shelf in front of a gilded , slightly spotted mirror , everything tidy apart from a wad of used cotton wool on the edge of the sink . |
| 12 | Many feel a certain warmth for Kant 's idea that the only thing which is good without qualification and in all circumstances is a good will , without accepting that a good will is one concerned only with the performance of duty for duty 's sake . |
| 13 | I find them dreadful especially in the city itself |
| 14 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 15 | Nor is it stable enough for a faith without foundations . |
| 16 | Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) . |
| 17 | But it was some of those same institutions who made it clear soon after the start of the recession that they would prefer companies not to pay out dividends they could not afford without straining the balance sheet . |
| 18 | I must admit , I think it had been better if they 'd moved it all over the weekend and then just put it straight again on the Monday , that would be . |
| 19 | It was still snowing outside , and so cold that Kalchu decided , despite the extravagance , to build up the fire and keep it alight right through the day . |
| 20 | Yeah is it busy there at the moment ? |
| 21 | She tried to hold the pen , but it zig-zagged all over the paper like that Planchette thing her father had used long ago . |
| 22 | If , like me , you prefer biodegradable pots , nestle them close together in a seedtray to ensure that their walls stay moist . |
| 23 | Every sceptical argument against the possibility of justified belief is an argument of the strongest form , and leaves us devoid even of the understanding we thought we had of our own language . |
| 24 | The next morning we rose early and broke our fast hastily in the hall for , despite the grisly warning issued the night before , Southgate was determined on a morning 's hunting though Bowyer was still suffering the effects of being too deep in his cups . |