Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 2 | This will get you into a playable but ultimately limited game . |
| 3 | Any agency which places you in an unviable or potentially dangerous position could be accused of negligence by delegation , and so it is equally not in their interests to place you inappropriately . |
| 4 | Such mothers may have created an oral-maternal fixation in their children by their early and traumatic weaning of them , but would also have maintained them in a passive and otherwise dependent state , not because of their passive maternal solicitude , but because of their aggressive , assertive masculinity which caused them to dominate their children rather as a father might . |
| 5 | Ultimately , however , it can only be through increased education that consumers can come to understand the choices available to them in a complex and ever changing market place and be able to exercise careful and considered consumption . |
| 6 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 7 | The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders . |
| 8 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 9 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 10 | It stayed with her throughout the long and endlessly delayed journey across France . |
| 11 | His curriculum vitae notes that his work ‘ keenly combines his observation and experiences of the world around him with a sharp and often cruel sense of humour ’ . |
| 12 | He eyed her with a suspicious but quite unabashed smile . |
| 13 | Lovelock sees this dual function as a vital bridge , but others argue that it puts him in an invidious and altogether too powerful position . |
| 14 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 15 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |
| 16 | They lose their often gaudy plumage in early summer after nesting is complete , exchanging it for a drab and less conspicuous dress for the summer and autumn . |
| 17 | Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd , London has expanded the retail banking elements of its flagship wholesale banking and treasury product , Equation , and released it as a separate but fully integrated module , Retail Advantage : like Equation , Retail Advantage is a client-server-based package , but has enhanced facilities for producing customer profitability reports , on-screen or in report form , for quality management purposes ; it incorporates a real-time automatic teller machine gateway to provide on-line validation and updates of such transactions as cash withdrawals , and cheque book requests ; it includes an updated version of Kapiti 's front-end office automation ‘ cashier system ’ , which undertakes point of service validation , and includes a transaction definition toolkit for up-dating such items as commission or exchange rates ; it has a fund management capability , which can map onto clearing rules worldwide ; and it has multi-lingual capabilities , such as being able to generate multi-lingual customer reports ; the company gave no prices for it . |
| 18 | In 1993 , the year that brings an open market to Europe , the European nations seem to take a similar view of Britain , regarding it as a strange and ultimately negligible country . |
| 19 | Edward of course was unaware of its connotations and encouraged it as a handsome and relatively uncommon plant . |
| 20 | If the Bill had stopped there , we would have supported it as an unnecessary but reasonably harmless measure , but it goes far beyond the type of incident about which we are all deeply worried . |
| 21 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 22 | Thankfully there 's always Dave Hemingway 's grin , Brian Corrigan 's Grogan-esque voice and Heaton 's foppish dancing to cheer us up and turn it into a gorgeous and lurvely night . |
| 23 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 24 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 25 | If this was a challenge the American film industry reacted to it in a determined and ultimately triumphant way . |
| 26 | It is known that the regulatory protein p4 efficiently displaces σ A -RNA polymerase bound at P A2b and directs it to the adjacent but divergently transcribed P A3 promoter ( 14 ) , transcription from P A3 being negligible in the absence of p4 under the ionic conditions used ( 22 ) . |
| 27 | At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market . |