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 . |