Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what it is actually is a idea that part of our research and development actually engages the customer so that in the stores it 's very difficult to experiment in say half a dozen when the national press is out there every week making an offer that you do n't carry by definition like that |
| 2 | After lunch , between the morning ride and the afternoon expedition , she read aloud and in the evenings she enjoyed playing cards and various acting and paper games . |
| 3 | Professor Hoskins , perhaps because of the years he lived and taught in the Midland counties , dwells at considerable length on the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the English landscape . |
| 4 | I think university just trains you to think and to prove to an employer that you can apply yourself for three years ; perhaps because in the sciences you learn things that will be relevant in your career , but as a training for an individual I do n't think it is any more worthwhile . |
| 5 | But that 's only because of the parts he 's played . |
| 6 | But erm obviously because of the customers it does not always it will certainly come now we 've got this technology but they have n't got the software package . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people . |
| 8 | Second , governments need to apply financial instruments to the materials society uses rather than to the wastes it creates . |
| 9 | Ivy Compton-Burnett , whose elegantly minimal and stylized dialogue has similarities with the narrative technique of Nathalie Sarraute , was appreciated in the 1950s primarily for her wit in portraying the viciousness of social interaction rather than for the techniques she employed . |
| 10 | It was that point in the morning when people usually began to think about the soup and potatoes that were expected shortly , rather than about the books they were reading . |
| 11 | She stared him full in the eye , as if seeking the truth in the way he looked at her , rather than in the words he spoke . |
| 12 | Dr P 's argument is that in a piece of ‘ good ’ writing , there are certain qualities , above and beyond the techniques s/he uses to communicate an experience or belief , that make that piece of writing intrinsically superior to other pieces of literature . |
| 13 | Medical experts no longer approve of this method of dieting — largely because of the limits it places on the intake of cereals , fruit and root vegetables . |
| 14 | This was the immediately post-war period when , presumably because of the years they had spent in the services and munitions factories , there was a great movement for women to return to purely domestic functions . |
| 15 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 16 | ‘ I told Pa frankly that under the circumstances I attached more value to Michelet 's advice than to his own … . |
| 17 | She had found it in them perhaps more securely than in the friends she had made in other colleges , with whom her relationships had been complicated by sex . |
| 18 | A minority kill themselves , or systematically intoxicate themselves , or withdraw into various psychotic or schizophrenic states ; but , as the various experts he talks to point out , this is often because of the difficulties they have caused themselves , or been caused by others . |
| 19 | By now , though , the sun was directly overhead and on the roofs it was unbearably hot . |
| 20 | Knowledge-based innovations differ from all others in the time they take , in their casualty rates , and in their predictability , as well as in the challenges they pose to entrepreneurs . |
| 21 | ‘ Even when they 're in England you get used to them not being there because of the matches they play for their county . ’ |
| 22 | They debated unhappily , reluctant to commit themselves to an opinion , until John Prophet suggested sadly that in the circumstances it might be well to consult the archbishop of Canterbury , and in some relief they agreed on this course , and carried their problem that same afternoon to Lambeth ; where Thomas Arundel , on the force of whose word and influence they could rely , advised them , in consideration of the desperate need , to issue the required letters patent , and he would be responsible for defending their action to the king , should it need any defence . |
| 23 | In particular , men like Paul-Henri Spaak , who had worked so hard for the EEC , were conscious of the fact that many economic interests within the Six supported the foundation of the EEC primarily because of the advantages they believed would be accruable to themselves . |
| 24 | His colleagues and aspiring rivals watched him closely , measuring themselves by him and running breathlessly after in the directions he took . |