Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not claiming either that He has somehow implanted in us a sixth sense that gives us certainty He exists whilst our other five senses provide no such assurance . |
| 2 | These tendencies are largely determined by what a particular non-European society perceives as western civilisation and how they react to it . |
| 3 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 4 | These beleaguered firms are still seen as what a national newspaper journalist has called the " barrow boys " of the share industry , whereas stockbrokers are seen as more respectable . |
| 5 | Beyond this , I do not accept much of the Freudian mythological apparatus , though Civilization and its Discontents has always seemed to me a penetrating if deeply pessimistic work of cultural analysis . |
| 6 | Tea has always seemed to me a childish and pointless affair , but it has the advantage of being morally blameless and socially safe . |
| 7 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 8 | Funny thing , I had n't noticed before what a one-horse town this was . |
| 9 | In modern life it is very much harder to see our way … [ it ] has almost ceased to he a controlling conception for us . |
| 10 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |