Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it .
2 What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it .
3 Perhaps you think me unduly harsh to express these things so openly .
4 We nearly all have these triggers .
5 We virtually all take some pleasure in the pleasure of others and find pain in their suffering .
6 They nearly all have some things in common .
7 The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine .
8 It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation .
9 ‘ He wo n't find it so easy to get another wife , ’ she said to Owen .
10 Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur .
11 Recent concessions on recording television programmes have made it much easier to use this type of material in education .
12 The establishment of the idea that the telling of the truth is thus subject to standards set by the use of a volume which is part history and part fiction , is almost tantamount to condoning the telling of untruths when the ritual is omitted , or at least making it much easier to justify such behaviour .
13 But this made it extremely difficult to follow any strategy of industrial reorganisation ; and in this respect there are interesting parallels between the late 1960s and the late 1940s .
14 Attending the performance of a pastiche Jacobean tragedy , she attempts to incorporate lines from this play into the evidence she is piecing together , but then finds it utterly impossible to locate any edition which would confirm the lines she heard .
15 No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others .
16 Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself .
17 But the scale of the buy-outs might make it more difficult to maintain that position .
18 Our patients were manifesting potentially dangerous hypoxaemia , and we did not consider it ethically appropriate to withhold this form of treatment .
19 Look at the plot for Double Dragon , where the big , butch males are sent t rescue the helpless female who does nothing but scream — is it really any wonder that home computing has become an all-male preserve ?
20 ‘ Students are finding it increasingly difficult to get that experience .
21 The current financial situation facing local education authorities and academic institution makes it particularly difficult to overcome these problems without cooperation .
22 In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury .
23 ‘ I find it almost impossible to imagine any frequenter of this club using a lap-top computer .
24 To follow that rule uncritically for Margery Kempe would make it virtually impossible to reach any conclusion about her from a modern psychiatric viewpoint , given the religious climate of her times .
25 Today many people find it virtually impossible to conjure any face other than Clark Gable 's as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind .
26 The inflexional system of Latin , however , made it freely possible to subvert these norms , for rhetorical effect , to topicalise or focus , or to create the metre-governed structures of poetry .
27 Uncle Hilbert , however , was only just sixty , very hale and hearty , still very much in practice as a solicitor , and Lewis could not imagine stepping into his shoes , nor did he in those days think it very nice to anticipate such things .
28 Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile .
29 I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men .
30 If I did not believe that the answer to these questions was in each case a resounding yes I would have found it very difficult to give these lectures .
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