Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals .
2 As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings .
3 After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance .
4 • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth .
5 I only tax mine for six month now then , ay ?
6 But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ?
7 Well he 's only put it on one side .
8 They deteriorated with time , and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions .
9 So tell me about this case of yours . ’
10 So tell me about this Rose Bowl of yours , ’ he said , leaning back and signalling the waiter for another bottle of wine .
11 They only tell you about that bit .
12 Only get her off this estate now , you understand ?
13 I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months .
14 As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it .
15 There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux .
16 ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’
17 Cheques have to arrive at the registrars by Thursday 10 September so post them by next Tuesday at the earliest .
18 Cooks and lawyers need to use words in their own special ways , and so do I in this book .
19 ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned .
20 So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one .
21 She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side .
22 They apparently need them for all manner of reasons . ’
23 The picture of settlement development in the landscape , then , is a dynamic picture of great complexity , great age and constant change , but we only see it at one time .
24 The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities .
25 However , their high oil content means that they ‘ spoil ’ quickly , so buy them in small quantities .
26 They only have them in this colour though .
27 We only have it on one bar , two bar
28 Model B , on the other hand would effectively ‘ nationalize ’ the 90 or so major institutions and thereby remove them from local control .
29 They liquidize but you can liquidize things by heating them up that would liquidize them but in this particular case you just mix them with some water what 's the process called ?
30 If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself
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