Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front . |
| 2 | It therefore seems unreasonable to see it as a result of the fragmentation of working-class communities ( Dunning et al , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | They also demonstrate the very considerable importance of scheduling and demographic targeting in establishing distinctions within broad categories : in order to make sense of broad programmatic genres like soap opera or crime series it always seems necessary to identify them with a qualifying time-slot — daytime soap , early evening soap and prime-time soap ; or , in Britain , pre-nine o'clock crime series ( the tradition of Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) , Juliet Bravo ( 1980–9 ) and The Bill ( 1988- ) and post-nine o'clock crime ( the subgenres of The Sweeney ( 1974–8 ) and Taggart ( 1985- ) , and of the US imports ) . |
| 4 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 5 | If the net encircles , it becomes necessary to fasten it to the top and the bottom of each of the stakes that holds the net erect . |
| 6 | It we further remark the way sexual difference is oft en presented within psychoanalysis as unavoidable and ineluctably fraught with pain , so much so in some cases that it warrants description as a tragic ontology , it becomes tempting to dismiss it as an expression of existential Angst suitably dressed in pretentious intellectual rigour and elegant abstraction , and , as such ( some might add ) , the epitome of psychoanalysis itself . |