Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow .
2 Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment .
3 The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations .
4 Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states .
5 ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’
6 Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters .
7 It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness .
8 ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature …
9 This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at .
10 I do not answer , nor do I open my eyes , but I am stirred by the relentless bleep and static of the answerphone ; words , artificial like a megaphone , filtering through .
11 Looking back over this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research .
12 I am struck by the immense change from social barbarism to social civilisation which has taken place in London ( indeed in Great Britain ) during my lifetime .
13 During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus .
14 Having inspected hundreds of buildings of every conceivable age and style , from ancient castle to modern semi , and having supervised the construction , maintenance and preservation of hundreds more , from hi-tech laboratories to family homes , I am struck by the huge difference between the well designed and built , and the badly designed and built , the latter being at the heart of most of the horror stories .
15 I am pervaded by a deep and solemn sadness .
16 I am stopped by an unstable-looking scree slope .
17 I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you .
18 ‘ Now I am faced with a tricky start to the race .
19 I am fascinated by every single bar .
20 I am fascinated by the sculptural elements in nature .
21 Books on Buddhism line the walls and , when I lie down on my futon , I am covered with an ethnic rug of indeterminate origins .
22 I am treated as a big failure to my parents and am seen as unworthy , although I have done nothing wrong . ’
23 If I am introduced as ’ Gill 's husband ’ , I am treated in a certain way ; if I am introduced as a Member of Parliament , I am generally treated in a very different way .
24 I am attuned to the subtle traffic of the air .
25 When I try to use the shared bathroom I am met by the teenage mother — the one with two kids .
26 I am positioned between the two chief medical officers and the fourteen nurses , seven male , seven female .
27 When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ?
28 I am taken to an expensive restaurant in Makati , where the president of the company , whose name is Rudy , is throwing a gala dinner in my honor .
29 The schemata are gardens of meditation and when I think of poetry , I am taken to the far country of Li Po , and then I see Thoreau and Jnandas and Rumi and a hundred poets ; their images throng my mind and I am moved and tears come to my eyes .
30 I am reminded of a short verse written in Roman times when even then they a new the nature of doctors .
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