Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 2 | It 's a very positive way of letting out pent-up aggression and far less dangerous than slashing someone across the face with your stick — and I 've got the scars to prove it . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm sorry if landing you with the girl 's clothes is an embarrassment . |
| 4 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 5 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 6 | Chasing prey through the tree-tops is much more hazardous than pursuing them along the ground , as this raccoon-hunting puma is discovering ( below ) . |
| 7 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 8 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Would you be so kind as to excuse me for a moment ? |
| 10 | And getting a permit for a waste-to-energy plant is every bit as difficult as getting one for a landfill in most places . |
| 11 | One such article , written by the General Secretary , was ordered to be printed and the editor had no option other than to deliver it to the printers . |
| 12 | Alison signalled her appreciation of this pun , but took a neo-McLuhanite line herself , arguing that since actuality was the essence of the medium , watching a classic novel on television was as odd as reading it in a newspaper . |
| 13 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |