Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flower-fringed lakeside boulevards , places to stroll in the lake air , or sit quietly on a sunlit Bodensee afternoon , plentiful water sports , all proclaim modern resorts ; half-timbered houses proclaim the past . |
| 2 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 3 | There is a masterpiece in most churches , or placed casually in a small chapel in a field . |
| 4 | or stand together in a rising mist |
| 5 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 6 | Every month almost two thirds of the British population participate in some kind of sales promotion , either by trading in a money-off coupon , entering a competition or sending away for a free gift . |
| 7 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 8 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |
| 9 | In precisely the same way , when we use the word property it will mean an element of this domain used by speakers in constructing their acts of linguistic communication , and not a property as perceived or conceived extralinguistically in a real or imaginary world , unless we specifically state that the latter is intended . |
| 10 | Biddy arrived on her Honda every evening there was a lesson whether it was snowing , raining stair-rods or shining frostily under a full moon . |
| 11 | Bulkier things like sofas can be delivered or whisked away on a rented roof-rack . |
| 12 | But this indeterminacy should not , and ultimately can not , be hidden or brought together under a single overarching account . |
| 13 | Write or call now for a comprehensive information pack or to arrange a showhouse visit . |
| 14 | Lear 's birds fill the page , stalking warily or glowering protectively over a half-dead prey ; his eagle owl , perhaps the most famous of all , glares menacingly from the shadows of twilight , its great yellow eyes mirrored by a lull moon . |
| 15 | There has been a kind of stalemate in the class struggle which has placed governments in the position of tackling deep-rooted problems with technocratic instruments of strictly limited effectiveness : they have held the line on the balance of payments by means of periodic deflation , which has not really solved anything ; they have periodically checked inflation and attempted to rebuild industrial profitability by means of ad hoc incomes policy but have been unable either to maintain popular support for such policies or to push forward to a comprehensive planning of prices and incomes , investment and consumption . |
| 16 | Thus when using glissades the choreographer must decide whether they are to be darted. and controlled by careful spacing to close in an elegant 5th position , or glided smoothly with a gentle rise and full , or danced in such a way that they give impetus to propel the dancer upwards into the step of elevation . |
| 17 | It is then written up as the business strategy or plan together with a detailed plan for implementation . |
| 18 | There were the usual pairs of opening lights over each saloon window , all each side being opened or closed together by a small lever . |
| 19 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 20 | But all that seemed almost like a simple happy life , now that he knew the real questions . |
| 21 | The nature of time in the British Civil Service as changed , cut up into small blocks covered by forward-looking three year corporate plans , rather than looking backwards to a living corporate tradition . |
| 22 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 23 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 24 | However , I ca n't help wondering how many people after seeing the engraving based on Turner 's painting by Middiman and Pye of Hardraw Force got off their wagonettes and hurried through the door of the Green Dragon Inn — only to be underwhelmed by a narrow , peaceful , tree-clad valley that leads serenely to a rocky bow with a high fall dropping from its lip to the valley floor which , impressive though it certainly is ( particularly after heavy rains ) , is nothing like the falls depicted by Turner . |
| 25 | In the example of Rubik 's cube , we have looked at a substantial problem that leads naturally to a great deal of mathematics and uses many techniques of problem solving . |
| 26 | As darkness begins to fall , the adventurers are ‘ lucky ’ enough to chance upon a path that leads upwards towards a rock-strewn side-valley . |
| 27 | Behind her , the flat expanse in the centre of the roof was dominated by something that perched there like a gigantic black dragonfly . |
| 28 | Two and a half years ago Camel Laird started a campaign to gain access to the intervention funding and because of the total lack of any sort of industrial policy by this government , and their refusal to support the Camel Laird application to the E E C , next month will see the closure of Camel Lairds which will lead to a loss of skills that amounts almost to a criminal act on the part of this government , who seem prepared to allow this country to become a skill-free zone in order to drive down wages and conditions to a rate comparable with some Third World countries . |
| 29 | They also tend to be middle-minded , not just because of the selective ( and , until recently , highly secretive ) recruitment procedure by which they are appointed , but also because in the course of their training and socialization they are imbued with a particular self-perception about their role that amounts almost to a consistent ideology ( Parker et al. , 1989 ) . |
| 30 | Stick that lot together along with the teeniest , faintest soupçon of banjo , and you 've got something that sounds almost like a miniature piano . |