Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | More importantly , the different types of phonetic , metrical , syntactic and semantic parallelism in poetic language indicate iconically a connection of meaning between the terms involved , and thus point to or reinforce the analogies between disparate elements from which , in his opinion , so much of the effect of poetry derives . |
2 | When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined , the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront . |
3 | Thus the descriptions of a language which are the output of a first-order application of linguistic theory represent only an inventory from which a selection must be made in order to draw up the syllabus for any particular teaching operation . |
4 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
5 | Modern English have quite a history . |
6 | The profits won by the producer , which in the short-run view seem clearly a monopoly rent attributable to the monopolized resource , turn out to be , in the long-run view , the profits of competitive entrepreneurship . |