Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social dynamics which foregrounded a consciousness of individual identity have been clearly analysed : primo-genitive inheritance forcing younger sons to seek a role outside the family ; the growth of a socially fluid urban society and of cathedral schools and the resultant rise of an administrative class ; the climate of learning and debate about the purposes of life , ideals to be followed and choice of life-style — whether to pursue an active life of involvement with the world of affairs or the inner contemplative ideals of a personal relationship with God within the renunciation and shelter of a cloister ; the stress on personal relationships between friends and lovers ; all these factors contributed to raise the profile of the individual within society rather than submerge it in low relief within a predetermined authoritarian hierarchy . |
| 2 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 3 | Then , when we are ready , we can reconstitute and display it as new information which human beings can once again understand . |
| 4 | The ability to store more food than we could eat at once also meant being able to buy and sell it in real quantity and the merchant cities arose . |
| 5 | To do this , we used experimental criteria to characterise and distinguish it from arachidonic acid , prostaglandin , chollagen , thrombin , or adenosine diphosphate ( see Methods ) . |
| 6 | The privately rented sector is declining fast , marginalized after seventy-five years of rent controls and other restrictions , although the present government seeks to change and revive it through partial deregulation . |
| 7 | okay , do n't take too much , and that is to first make a literal translation and then , to try and put it into idiomatic English . |
| 8 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |