Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 2 | My reaction probably seems polite and restrained , but inside I explode with the feelings voiced by Hugh Macdiarmid : ‘ Scotland , small ? |
| 3 | ‘ Suddenly you think about the days beyond work . |
| 4 | And obviously you worry about the consequences for the individuals concerned . ’ |
| 5 | So you come down the stairs and you come into the kitchen in the kitchen we start with the refrigerator being put next to the cooker |
| 6 | So you think save the trees but ditch the tulip . |
| 7 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 8 | So we go through the motions of feeding ourselves . |
| 9 | So we pray for the leaders of the nations , and especially those whose words influence and incite strife . |
| 10 | So we look at the rounds as being twenty to thirty parcels a day give or take . |
| 11 | So we read between the lines , take our own meanings from the books and films we are allowed access to and call it camp . |
| 12 | So we read in the minutes of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Weavers , London , for Tuesday 2 January 1798 : ‘ William Chas . |
| 13 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 14 | Together they comb through the writings of the two Victorians , and gradually the true facts of the romance are revealed . |
| 15 | Meanwhile I give below the dates of the next open days at Larksoken so that as many of us as possible can attend and strenuously put our case against nuclear power during the question time which normally precedes the actual tour of the station . ’ |
| 16 | Thus you play into the hands of that force which desires your downfall and wishes to hinder your inner progress , leaving you to shut the gate on the prison you have built for yourself , afraid to step out and to try anew to overcome your weaknesses . |
| 17 | In this chapter we look at how those goals may be in conflict , and how they are affected by age , culture and a person 's job ; 1 consider how organizations attempt to motivate people by rewarding performance , and thereby rewarding those goals ; finally we look at the outcomes of goal/organization mismatch which lead to dissatisfaction , disillusionment and stress . |
| 18 | Eventually you emerge from the trees and the panorama opens up across Morecambe Bay . |
| 19 | On my way home I reflect on the pleasures of a good day 's fishing . |
| 20 | A ludicrous consequence of the inverted word-order is that the syntactic pattern noun + preposition ( " shades among " ) might seem to be repeated at the end of the following line ( " judgment o'er " ) , so that instead of understanding a participial construction , " the stern assize and equal judgment being over " ( Housman 's equivalent for the future perfect ) , a guileless reader might construe " When once you descend among the shades , over the stern assize and equal judgment " . |
| 21 | Like you go to the doctors , you did n't |
| 22 | The further we research into the intricacies of the human genes , the closer we come to the possibility of refashioning human biological existence . |
| 23 | The more we know of the details , the more possible it becomes to control them |
| 24 | The more we discover about the interactions of world poverty , ecoclimate , world trade arrangements , debt , etc. , the more important it becomes to raise awareness and change attitudes , campaign and lobby , in the rich countries of the North . |
| 25 | The higher the temperature of the gas , the faster the molecules move , and so the more frequently and harder they collide with the walls of the box and the greater the outward pressure they exert on the walls . |
| 26 | And push it , like that that 's how you know like they do in the gondolas that |
| 27 | and like they run down the stairs and run back up the stairs , yeah , and they 're looking out the window out the window and they go why the bloody hell are you always just looking out of windows and he 's going do it your way and I 'll do it mine . |
| 28 | It 's long and straight and takes for ever but eventually we get to the outskirts of Newbury . |
| 29 | ‘ I would far rather we go through the criticisms , than have you editorialise afterwards , with ‘ on the one hand and on the other , ’ ’ he says . |
| 30 | A new picture of a world characterised by flux , and thus a world not reducible to static intellectual categories , a picture of a world of flux was emerging , particularly clearly I suppose in the writings of Bergson . |