Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to admit that for many older churches it takes much longer to change and also that a more traditional style can be helpful to many in finding Christ personally and following him radically . |
| 2 | Jennings ( 1961 ) wrote that ‘ Research has produced such a variegated list of traits presumed to describe leadership , that for all practical purposes it describes nothing . |
| 3 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 4 | Any white spirit would do for him , he was n't fussy , and he poured himself a stiff vodka , some of that Polish stuff they had brought back from their Black Sea summer holiday . |
| 5 | ‘ Have n't you got some of that special stuff you can freeze it with ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was rather wondering , Uncle , ’ he smiled at the man who had kept a fatherly eye on him from the age of ten , ‘ how you felt about serving some of that excellent champagne I know you have in your cellar . ’ |
| 7 | Oh , I , I can remember when fibreglass curtains first came out we bought some of those terrible things they just went in holes , you know if you touched them too much they just went in holes . |
| 8 | Indeed did n't some of those unfortunate Micks you buggers kept framing get done for handling gelignite when they 'd only played cards or struck matches or something ? ’ |
| 9 | With some of these sociological theories we are perhaps again witnessing the process we identified earlier with the aid of Raymond Williams . |
| 10 | In some of these early Sonatas I even find the fortepiano to be of advantage , particularly in the first movement of Op. 7 where quick passages should come down like hail : the action is lighter , and the incisiveness of fast forte notes much bigger . |
| 11 | Some of these old ladies it 's the highlight of their week |
| 12 | Now go and relax in your dressing-room for a little while — try a few of those deep-breathing exercises you 've been telling me about . |
| 13 | If teachers are able to resist the force of such wholly misleading claims as this from such powerful sources it will be a remarkable victory for sense over folly . |
| 14 | The point is here that he has mentioned in his press release a number of okay local people , and by doing this in this particular way he has greatly increased the possibility and probability of ending up with a piece in the local newspaper . |
| 15 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 16 | He had calculated , however , that he would need to give three poetry readings in order to cover his expenses on this visit : he did only the amount that was strictly necessary , since the Inland Revenue had a habit of taking much of any extra income he earned . |
| 17 | If he thinks it advisable that the complainant should ask for an investigation by either of those other Commissioners he may inform him of the steps necessary to do so . |
| 18 | Using either of these two methods you know exactly what you are receiving in your own currency and can adjust your price accordingly . |
| 19 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 20 | Fortunately not too many on this little patch we 're on . |
| 21 | If this is relativity it is like Einstein 's , by which it is not that you can make any measurement come out as you please , but that from any spatio-temporal viewpoint you can estimate what will be the right measurement from any other . |
| 22 | Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility . |
| 23 | For instance to this is an assumption that although we are going to have a shortfall on the collection fund , again because of good housekeeping we believe that this action is what people want by the charge payers of the city and again that in this financial year it can be taken out of the . |
| 24 | But she instructed her fast-beating heart not to be so idiotic , that Ven meant nothing by that other than that he was intrigued that her journalistic methods were unlike those of any other journalist he had met . |
| 25 | Describe their advantages and disadvantages ( and those of any other methods you can think of ) . |
| 26 | And we had n't got any more of those nice lettuce you know . |
| 27 | How many more of those blank tapes you got ta go through ? |
| 28 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
| 29 | ( Did you know that whenever the English went to war with France , our soldiers immediately hanged any of these Scottish mercenaries they captured ? |
| 30 | I did n't have to do any of these crazy things they made me do . |