Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 2 | As I battled my way over or through each obstacle I 'd think I 'll be ahead of him after this — he 'll never manage this one . |
| 3 | In experiences of communal disaster or of shared pain we can gain support from those who suffer with us . |
| 4 | While we can tinker with the genetics of life or with atomic fission we can not operate with the sensitivity of naturally occurring processes — which might give us cause to consider that technology in certain areas should simply not be pursued at all . |
| 5 | Presumably after that we w or on that date we 'll start to get phone calls ? |
| 6 | Physical anthropologists and socio-cultural anthropologists have different fields of interest but their respective territories are not separated by an impenetrable wall ; or at any rate they ought not to be . |
| 7 | On the Callanish moorland there are not many features , except for one thing I will tell you about soon . |
| 8 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 9 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 10 | What happened was that after each death she would go through a process of remembering the scenes of illness and death . |
| 11 | I 'm sure that after this weekend you will have no problem in breaking all Lucas Sales 's previous records on this contract . |
| 12 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 13 | He believed that with such experience she would not have resisted the orders of her assailant . |
| 14 | And if anybody thinks that with reasonable budgeting you could manage on sixty three twenty , I challenge you to do a little personal budgeting . |
| 15 | Richmann seethed at Henri 's arrogance , and consoled himself that with any luck he would n't have to stand for the superstitious fool 's whims for much longer Drawing a gun from a shoulder holster , he prepared to fight his way through the streets if necessary ; it would be nothing compared to what was to come , he thought . |
| 16 | I asked our education correspondent , Mike Baker , to list some of the topics he felt that with more space they could cover properly . |
| 17 | The ideas of morality are modes too , and Locke thinks that with proper application we could develop a systematic science of ethics similar to that of mathematics and geometry . |
| 18 | However , I think that with proper coordination it should not be hard to ensure effective working between the bodies . |
| 19 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 20 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 21 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 22 | Perhaps also , a new officer might learn how little his place was actually worth after he had accepted it , although in this regard it must be remembered that even the crown offices were poorly paid . |
| 23 | Your ruler , Mercury , turns retrograde on the 11th which means that from this point you must be prepared to sit certain situations out and not to expect an immediate response from people . |
| 24 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 25 | This comparative static result suggests that in empirical work we would expect to observe a positive correlation between alternative wages or unemployment benefits , and union wages and membership , but also possibly a sharp discontinuity in this relationship . |
| 26 | Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was . |
| 27 | Reed Children 's Books and Books for Students , the Warwick-based school and library supplier , have just announced that in that capacity she will be a judge for a new competition for primary school children — the first prize being a week 's holiday for a whole class at children 's author Michael Morpurgo 's farm in Devon . |
| 28 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 29 | While such a set-up would probably be established under the auspices of the Bank of England , the main users in the shape of the institutions envisage that in due course they would take over ownership . |
| 30 | ‘ At this stage it is too early ti give an accurate figure for the likely return to depositors , however I do believe that in due course it should be substantial . |