Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From where he was lying , he could neither go forwards nor backwards without exposing himself as a target . |
| 2 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 3 | It believes that everything in the world is related to everything else in such an intimate way that only the whole is , can be said to be real , and only by seeing everything in its associated network of the whole to which it belongs , of the complete whole to which it belongs , can it be understood . |
| 4 | If the threat of ( big ) wars is small , it will make sense to spend more of that money researching and developing weapons and less on putting them into full-scale production — or on training and feeding expensive troops . |
| 5 | Above all the parties have failed in the task of presenting clear alternatives to the questions of the day and thus of deciding them by public debate … |
| 6 | We look forward to seeing you all at our wedding , and later to welcoming you to dinner in our new home . |
| 7 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 8 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 9 | Civilian contractors were normally responsible for provisioning these armies , and often for supplying them with arms , ammunition and uniforms . |
| 10 | All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds . |
| 11 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 12 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
| 13 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
| 14 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |
| 15 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 16 | Occam gives extra scope for this because it is a parallel language : one can improve a program not only by reducing the overall amount of calculation , but also by configuring it for the ( possibly parallel ) machine on which it is to be run . |
| 17 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 18 | But instead of allowing himself to be weaned off the drug , he went ‘ cold turkey ’ . |
| 19 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 20 | But instead of basing it in Northallerton , where he runs the Sundial Hotel and founded the now defunct York Trailers , it will be in Shildon , near Darlington . |
| 21 | But instead of protecting her from attack , this mask forced the gas at her , rushing it up into her face with a sinister hissing . |