Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ghosh and Senko put forward an interpolation search in place of the track or lowest-level index , and showed that for normal key distributions it would improve the direct retrieval performance of IS files . |
| 2 | Well fo for that much money you can easily just say , look I 'm going away . |
| 3 | ‘ For that gracious apology I 'll allow you to get up for dinner tonight . ’ |
| 4 | For that very reason it would be unusual to include detailed provisions in the partnership agreement itself . |
| 5 | For that brief moment she could see the room beyond him and there , jutting out from what seemed at first glance to be a pillow beneath the blanket , the naked foot of a youth . |
| 6 | SERAFIN : I was just thinking how often philosophy begins with the promise that if we can manage to get our thinking right about some basic concept we can then go on to restructure our thinking about everything else — and how rarely this later part of the programme is ever reached … |
| 7 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 8 | ‘ For another two weeks you can . |
| 9 | " I 'm sure if I ask Muslim brother for another ten days it will be all right , " the Shah replied stiffly . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a good price and — ’ he winked slyly at Erika — ‘ and for another twenty marks they 'll wear gipsy dress . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ As you 're a fisherman , Mr Leland , if you 'd care to come down to Devon during this present season I 'd be most happy to offer you unlimited fishing . ’ |
| 12 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 13 | During this initial period it will be necessary to use whatever methods appear appropriate to deal with the patient 's distress . |
| 14 | Central to the whole debate , however , it should be borne in mind that in order to differentiate between different organizational types it would be necessary to demonstrate , firstly , that workers in different models behave differently and secondly , that this differential behaviour has an effect . |
| 15 | About another three weeks we should be out of the real winter sha n't we ? |
| 16 | For some strange reason she could n't seem to relinquish her hold on the chain and braced herself for the wrench she was sure would follow when fitzAlan started towards the castle gates . |
| 17 | ‘ For some older workers it would make a lot of sense , because together with our ordinary voluntary redundancy payment it is an attractive package . ’ |
| 18 | From fearing that a total commitment to Guy Sterne would be the greatest mistake of her life , for some inexplicable reason she could n't now seem to envisage a future without him . |
| 19 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 20 | For this latter purpose it can prove invaluable , a bench mark against which you can compare candidates for the job . |
| 21 | This means that the three remaining days will be packed more tightly and although it is too late for this academic year we will in subsequent years have one day at the start of each term . |
| 22 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 23 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
| 24 | It is not appropriate that we have a blanket policy at the strategic level and the need for this particular policy it would seem to me is unproven . |
| 25 | Through this latter resonance we can see the connection between the functionalist style and American legal realism . |
| 26 | Perhaps we sort through this original question we can pick up on that . |
| 27 | After that little performance you can hardly deny that you want me . |
| 28 | After this past week they will all be thinking the same . ’ |
| 29 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 30 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |