Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 2 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 3 | In the situations where the actor does not desire the result , but merely sees it as a foreseeable outcome of his conduct , the House of Lords has said that there is merely evidence from which the tribunal of fact can infer that he intends . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 5 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |
| 6 | How you look at someone , the attention you give them and your body language are all means of communication and can have a strong effect upon the recipient , even if he only perceives it on a subconscious level . |
| 7 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 8 | In terms of an artist who discovers the meaning in the making of a picture , he is , I think , the superior artist , and that Picasso really only matches him in the Cubist paintings where the meaning is found in the material in an extraordinary sense , with dapplings and little markings and so on . |
| 9 | Matt eventually replaces it with an electric violin , deep on echo and reverb , swelling and rolling like a full orchestra , pitching the sombre melodies into the realms of classic film soundtracks . |
| 10 | If I may say so , you 're a bit long in the tooth to be an articled clerk , and — to make up for that — you have an air of authority that scarcely fits you for a junior position . |
| 11 | The latter is a recognized field of work in its own right and some people in it might be surprised to find themselves called public relations operators , but the speciality derives from public relations and the counselling , reconciliatory and persuasive nature of the work comfortably fits it within the broader spectrum of public relations practice . |
| 12 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 13 | Holland thus leads us to a dynamic and important role of reading : ‘ The psychoanalytic theory of literature holds that the writer expresses and disguises childhood fantasies . |
| 14 | Sleep suggestions are made to encourage the subject to sever the critical awareness that normally links him to the external environment ; ‘ reality testing ’ has to be set aside . |
| 15 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 16 | The new insight is that Grb2 associates with Sos1 , and thus recruits it to the activated receptor in the plasma membrane where Ras activation is presumed to take place . |
| 17 | The control exercised by Mosca 's ‘ ruling class ’ is held to be assured by the organisational capacity of the ruling minority : this is the basis of their power and the characteristic that best distinguishes them from the disorganised and powerless majority . |
| 18 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 19 | For example , yellow-orange CL of calcite generally distinguishes it from the darker red-crimson of dolomite , and feldspars are very bright blues , reds or greens compared with subdued violets and browns for quartz grains . |
| 20 | It can also in effect make it impossible for them to participate in the community and thus deprives them of an important aspect of citizenship . |
| 21 | She is pursued by Mr Lillyvick , whom she marries , but soon deserts him for a retired naval captain . |
| 22 | The money wage just puts you into a particular sub-section of the general category " wage-earner " . |
| 23 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 24 | Anyway , in order to get our interest at the start of each lesson he usually involves us in a silly game of some sort , and I still clearly remember the drama lesson when , thanks to David Smith ( alias ‘ Daz ’ ) , the ‘ warm up ’ game went horribly wrong . |
| 25 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 26 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 27 | Even as she offers her diagnosis , she very touchingly envelops it in a renewed insistence on how he was still , in 1935 , ‘ passionate and austere , : |
| 28 | Looking back on the bitter , dangerous adventure he undertook in her service , years later , Hi Ridden still sees her in a romantic light : |
| 29 | The world still sees me as a nasty kid |
| 30 | The composer subtitled this piece ‘ Premonitions ’ , but Chailly reduces it to a dry orchestral exercise . |