Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 2 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 3 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 4 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |
| 6 | The ‘ space ’ of modern astronomy may arouse terror , or bewilderment or vague reverie ; the spheres of the old writers present us with an object in which the mind can rest , overwhelming in its greatness but satisfying in its harmony . |
| 7 | And these top earners have it to a tee . |
| 8 | I was still under a care order so the Social Services put me in a hostel . |
| 9 | Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines . |
| 10 | Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom , their mistrust of the new powers of industry and their blank incomprehension when faced with the idea that their estates could be run more profitably on other than feudal lines set them on a course that was to have a profound impact on German history . |
| 11 | It 's just I mean as philosophy just very standardly takes words from ordinary language gradually gets a technical meaning , er which is different from the original meaning and then when ordinary speakers use it in the original meaning they get told off . |
| 12 | The findings of the male researchers , she claims , are dogged by what she calls the problem of women ‘ whose sexuality remains more diffuse , whose perception of self is so much more tenaciously embedded in relationships with others and whose moral dilemmas hold them in a mode of judgment that is insistently contextual ’ . |
| 13 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |
| 14 | The official ones get it from the government back home , the rest have to earn it . |
| 15 | Many off-road drivers see it as a challenge and while a voluntary code of practice has reduced the number of cars and bikes on Sundays and bank holidays , some are still upsetting the walkers and riders . |
| 16 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 17 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 18 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 19 | It is a production bogged down by a Brussels-like bureaucracy , from the union dominated actions of the orchestra ( whose buzzing watch-alarms alert them to a coffee break mid- aria ) to the backstabbing officials protecting their patch with petty politics . |
| 20 | Cosy armchairs greet you in the marble lobby from where you can wander off to enjoy the lovely piano bistro or de luxe restaurant . |
| 21 | Marxists argue that it derives from the needs of the capitalist mode of production , while elite theorists see it as an institutional-bureaucratic coincidence of interest . |
| 22 | The haughty Servants meet him with a Frown . |
| 23 | Reconstructed interiors and extensive displays take you into the world of James Herriot . |
| 24 | Although Eoraptor is structurally close to the common dinosaurian ancestor , several advanced features place it among the saurischians as the most primitive known theropod ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 25 | ( It is tempting to call this curve ‘ the tail ’ , though in fact the old mythological figures show it as the Bear 's head . ) |
| 26 | The arbiter approach dismisses instrumentalist arguments that the state apparatus operates to support capitalism because the social backgrounds , values and networks of contacts for senior bureaucrats and political leaders tie them into a directly pro-business orientation . |
| 27 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 28 | So , naturally , many insect-eating animals pursue them in the air . |
| 29 | Small businesses see it as a boost to get them out of recession while other , larger firms criticised Mr Lamont . |
| 30 | Moore , who did not place much value upon a society as a whole , might not have agreed , but his general principles allow it as a possibility . |