Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general public has a tendency to assume that nurses experience a strong desire to care for others , perhaps believing that many feel a true vocation or ‘ divine call ’ to the work , although it is probably less usual to describe it in these terms today . |
| 2 | I 'm so sorry to put you to all this trouble . ’ |
| 3 | Though most women experience the feelings I did , they are only willing to discuss them with other mothers . |
| 4 | It is so easy to overdo it at first so please be gentle with yourself . |
| 5 | Recognising sharp practice in their dealers from the outset , they would be less likely to blame them for huge losses . |
| 6 | Relaxing a little , she told herself that having discovered the identity of R , it was not so essential to grill him after all ; but on the other hand , there was still the matter of the concealed photograph to be explained . |
| 7 | And I do n't understand why she was so slow to alert us to those symptoms today . ’ |
| 8 | Many of them have inordinately high mortgages around their necks and they are finding it extremely difficult to service them in this unusually long period of high interest rates . |
| 9 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 10 | Descent was traced in the female line because when pairing was temporary and informal , it was not possible to reckon it in any other way , as one could only be sure of the identity of the mother of the child , not that of the father . |
| 11 | ‘ Jane , it is not polite to question me in that way . |
| 12 | Of the love , she knew he was growing tired but since her own ardour had considerably diminished after Pilade 's birth she was not disposed to criticise him for this . |
| 13 | The shadow Leader of the House can not ask me to hear a point of order from the Front Bench when I am not prepared to hear them from those on the Back Benches . |
| 14 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 15 | It was not easy to relate them to any obvious scheme . |
| 16 | He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right ! |
| 17 | ‘ You 're not supposed to eat it like that , ’ said Gurder severely . |
| 18 | And it 's no good actually , it 's not good pulling it like that and pulling it away because it 'll still be there . |
| 19 | It is worth noting , however , that one of the ideas behind the risk theory , namely that losses should be borne by the party best able to absorb them with least dislocation and disruption , is a very popular one in the ( private ) law of tort where the theory of fault liability is , in some areas at least , under attack . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not able to help you in that area . |
| 21 | As this type of filter should be disturbed as little as possible , it is not advisable to mix it with other media that require regular attention like filter floss . |
| 22 | But even being able to articulate my needs was not sufficient to protect me from further abuse . |
| 23 | Apart from the last purpose set out in condition ( c ) he is not entitled to make them for any other purpose . |
| 24 | The acts , implying possession in one case , may be wholly inappropriate to prove it in another . |
| 25 | Cases ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , involving chelating and bridging ligands , lead to slightly reduced frequencies for both bond stretches , down to about 1500 cm -1 for and about 900 cm -1 for , and it is not usually possible to distinguish them in this way . |
| 26 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 27 | Also , blotting paper is fairly costly to buy so it is much more economical to use it for pressing time and time again . |
| 28 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 29 | If an item is coached carefully step by step in the early stages the performers are more likely to remember it for future use . |
| 30 | Good thatch is difficult to obtain in many parts of the world , and in the Indian State of Kamataka peasants now have to buy bamboo at 1200 rupees a tonne on the free market ( about £80 a tonne ) whereas the paper industry is still able to get it at 15 rupees a tonne ( £1 ) from the government 's reserved forests . |