Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Spirit becomes in effect a weak counterpart to the male Logos : I say weak because clearly the Spirit is not differentiated in the sense in which the Logos is associated with a male human being .
2 Mustard should be allowed to stand for a few minutes after mixing and before serving to allow the flavour to develop , but mix little and often the flavour will be retained but the pungency will soon be lost .
3 Sometimes the tides run fast an' sometimes a man gets the feelin' 'e can swim across from shore ter shore with ease when it 's runnin' slow .
4 Make sure that both the farmer and the gamekeeper approve — and ensure that they know the exact date , time and place of your intended nettings .
5 We know less and less the meaning of the master passion of the spirit which once drove through Christian men .
6 An American Congregationalist , for example , saw no possibility of uniting with Rome and every reason for not uniting with Rome — let us join the Churches which teach more or less the truth , not the Churches which do not .
7 When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process .
8 I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer .
9 In an age when we feel more and more the need to be in harmony with our environment , it makes sense to surround yourself with the infinite variety and beauty of today 's clay tiles , so sophisticated in their simplicity .
10 How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ?
11 His cautious and methodical ways , once so valuable a buffer to Richard 's impetuosity , now become more and more a cause of annoyance .
12 The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
13 They were er a grade five , that was the lowest inspector , grade four But eventually the grade er five and four were done away with .
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