Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
2 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
3 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
4 | Now the increasingly hard-nosed tactics of the popular press have driven society gossip underground , and gossip columns are mostly filled with the doings of the lower echelons of café society on the make . |
5 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
6 | Proposals to improve the quality of life coincided with the tenure of the National Unity Government under the initial premiership of Shimon Peres , widely regarded outside the territories as the most promising Israeli proponent of a peace settlement . |
7 | This meant that in spite of their class selfishness and legalistic pedantry they were widely regarded as the defenders of liberty and established rights ( the two were still largely synonymous ) against royal autocracy and ‘ ministerial despotism ’ . |
8 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
9 | There are regular guided tours of the state rooms of the chateau , whose contents and decoration were mostly arranged during the restorations of the nineteenth century and are not very remarkable , with the exception of the tapestries . |
10 | The sharp opposition of state and civil society was fundamentally altered in the years of the Weimar Republic when a much friendlier set of public bodies served partly as framework for the Bauhaus , and for Brecht 's and Piscator 's theatre . |
11 | But not even Michael had known about the other sum — smaller , but just as regular — that Holdfast had dourly diverted to the fighters on his own side of the great divide . |
12 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
13 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
14 | The thief rarely thinks of the consequences for the victim . |
15 | He dispassionately and properly referred to the feelings of locomotive drivers . |
16 | Her last bathroom back in the squat had been mouldy , iced-up in winter , and mostly decorated with the husks of dead bugs in spiderwebs . |
17 | But Miss Banks-Smith went on to worry about the effects of such overwhelming attention : ‘ You wonder with something like guilt whether television was good for her . |
18 | Furthermore , it is tremendously varied in the languages of the world . |
19 | They are intrigued by the process , interested in the machinery and most impressed by the skills of the people . |
20 | ‘ Obviously , by background and experience I 'm wholly committed to the benefits of the capitalist system . |
21 | He was most understanding about the needs of our party . |
22 | Logic points to the emergence of a party that draws on both the Marxist traditions of the Prague Spring and on the social-democratic movement that was forcibly amalgamated with the Communists after 1948 . |
23 | Budgetary information is rarely included in the accounts of a profit-oriented or Type A non-profit organization . |
24 | The plumber smiles broadly as he gathers up his tools and delicately tip-toes between the pools of water . |
25 | The general lack of compromise or provision for flexible or part-time work effectively chokes off the careers of many promising lawyers . |
26 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
27 | Blood slowly coagulated round the edges of the gash . |
28 | ‘ Having been brutally denied her rightful place to be an elected leader of her people , Aung San Suu Kyi remains courageously committed to the principles of freedom and democracy , ’ he said . |
29 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
30 | The new ‘ sociologists of deviance ’ who emerged from this background have been loosely grouped under the headings of symbolic interactionists , transactionalists and societal reaction theorists . |