Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 2 | This means that the facts unc we are assuming are in principle decidable , an so add nothing to the real power of our system . |
| 3 | So design one on the same scale as the backcloth . |
| 4 | These sections naturally follow one from the other , and thus the organization of the headings in these two chapters follows patterns . |
| 5 | Even if you only buy one in a whole year , we will still be happy to give you all the benefits of Vevay membership |
| 6 | Leave blisters alone , just loosely cover everything with a clean dry cloth and call the doctor . |
| 7 | ‘ Just get everyone into the old sheds . ’ |
| 8 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 9 | Probably get one for the little room , probably get er |
| 10 | You rarely find anyone with a neutral opinion on snakes . |
| 11 | Modern psychotics also often make something of a personal divinity of the sun , as the following quotation suggests : |
| 12 | I know but , but you want , you want , really want one with a closed hole , you 've got it |
| 13 | You really want one with a three |
| 14 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |
| 15 | But the event need n't be all hard work — in fact it 's now become something of a social event . |
| 16 | By totalization , therefore , Sartre does not here mean anything like a predetermined end or final closure of a totality but rather a process of mediation among the parts , where each is determined by the other . |
| 17 | Those who , like Iris Murdoch , speak of a ‘ selfless attention ’ to others as a supreme mark of virtue — hard to achieve and harder still , as a duty , to discount — surely imply something like a deep security of inner being . |
| 18 | In mitigation I could appeal to Proust : ‘ Beneath the signs there lay something of a different kind , which I must try to discover … ’ |
| 19 | Restaurants range from the good to the fast food variety ; if you 're more concerned with ambience , then choose one in the old port area . |
| 20 | He would place two cigarettes in his mouth , light them both , then hand one to the sex-starved spinster , sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips . |
| 21 | More fashionably , this may be expressed in terms of " capital points " which may facilitate mental calculation of the agreed ratio at any given time but otherwise add nothing to the traditional method . |
| 22 | The north should stop tut-tutting about juridical lapses or dictatorial ways and instead do something about the low commodity prices and the debt burdens that make the poor even poorer . |
| 23 | Then you see that waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue which operations researchers are so fond of modelling . |
| 24 | ‘ Waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ You never do anything right , you never do anything for the right reasons . |
| 26 | It 's at times like these that the brain cells slip into surrealist ‘ wavy picture ’ mode as you mentally conjure something with a 10 inch wide fretboard and a progression of thick wound strings tensed across it , creating monstrous internal forces and straining various components to breaking point . |