Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 2 | ( Sweet ale drinkers vigorously attacked it as that pernicious and wicked weed ) . |
| 3 | Then they decided perhaps I did n't have to stay in that one after all , so put me into another single cell , which was equally disgusting . |
| 4 | I think we should perhaps provide you with some extra lessons . ’ |
| 5 | IAN LUCAS went along to guide them through those tricky questions . |
| 6 | Be careful : if you were asked by the council to comment on the original application , it may only inform you of these new drawings if you specifically ask . |
| 7 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 8 | Fresh legislation would only drive it into some more objectionable form . |
| 9 | They have waxy cell walls which perhaps protect them against many antibacterial substances . |
| 10 | Did he deliberately draw himself to your attention merely to involve you in this new Ordo — or because he hopes you might lance the boil of a conspiracy without him needing to show his own hand ? |
| 11 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 12 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
| 13 | At least , if the resources in question were printed ones we would not consider it at all acceptable for teachers to be compiling course bibliographies solely from their own publications . |
| 14 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 15 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 16 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 17 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 18 | Rincewind glanced around quickly , in case some leakage of enchantment from the Magician 's Quarter across the river had momentarily transported them to some other place . |
| 19 | Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time . |
| 20 | It 's just multiply it by that constant thing each time . |
| 21 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 22 | And you , A types can not see it in any other way . |
| 23 | Although one might not realize it from some modern accounts , Measure for Measure is a comedy , and Angelo can be dismissed at the end to marry his contracted wife , since his hypocrisy had no evil effects . |
| 24 | She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either . |
| 25 | It was as if , gasping out his last breath , that battered , bitter and vindictive old man had somehow injected him with some small portion of his own bitter resolve . |
| 26 | Not getting me for any extra hours that 's a certain fact |
| 27 | He was normally shown , holding a double axe and thunderbolt , standing on a bull , thus linking him with this important fertility image . |
| 28 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 29 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
| 30 | Your investigations , Mister Cowley , have not led us to any further evidence to confirm or clarify the intentions of these men ? , |