Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 2 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
| 3 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 4 | If someone punches in the wrong code more than three times , the alarm sounds automatically . |
| 5 | Rather like a bank 's cash-dispensing machine , the launch-control computer will keep the missiles ' warheads switched off if somebody types in the wrong combination . |
| 6 | Because the result of what we 're trying to achieve , particularly if one goes for the new settle settlement option , is to squeeze , as we said this morning , a gallon into a pint pot , and it it would be interesting to hear from the County why the Greater York boundary is what it is . |
| 7 | Yes the particular item that was deleted was known as the combat override facility which erm was really a trade off erm to provide extra thrust against the reduced life of the engine and clearly if one operates at the top end of the engine spectrum in er hotter conditions and higher er R P M then clearly the life of the engine will be reduced . |
| 8 | By contrast , if one seeks in the present continuum for ‘ that which attends ’ , nothing is to be found . |
| 9 | If one turns from the professional judges to the nobles and gentry who were members of the Council in the Marches , high-handedness and corruption become more apparent . |
| 10 | Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns . |
| 11 | And if one moves from the statistical to the policy level , who are the most likely people to offend on bail ? |
| 12 | If one follows through the possible implications of this , one comes to the thought that perhaps language should be presented , to learners primarily in lexical terms , setting conditions for the gradual emergence of syntax as a focusing device — the very converse of conventional practice . |
| 13 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 14 | If one looks at the international scene — as any university or special librarian must — the range of choice is further amplified , especially since publishing in the Third World is expanding very quickly . |
| 15 | Even if one looks at the political structure of England one can see the division , and there is no doubt that political dominance was heavily weighted in favour of the South and the Midlands . |
| 16 | But it is quite different in almost any university if one looks at the immediate post- doctoral level . |
| 17 | If one looks at the early development of vertebrae it becomes clearer just how segmental much of our own early development is . |
| 18 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 19 | If one looks at the continuing difficulties in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet empire , which some now call the UFFR — the union of fewer and fewer republics — one sees that those troubles could trigger off large movements of displaced persons across national frontiers . |
| 20 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 21 | If one looks beyond the surviving lists of fees to less formal evidence of affiliation , more instances of continuity are to be found . |
| 22 | If one looks beyond the surviving lists of fees to less formal evidence of affiliation , more instances of continuity are to be found . |
| 23 | If one looks beyond the picturesque formula for the foregrounds of figures , animals or rocks to the hills , lakes or sky , the prints have a delicacy and personality all of their own . |
| 24 | If one leans towards the former view , it is not to belittle the other . |
| 25 | What is consoling is that one may be perfectly sure that if one perishes in the barbed wire , they will not be too much affected by the loss . |
| 26 | " If anything happens to the old girl , it will indeed be your Moorlake , " Jenny said . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , there is nothing comparable on the university side , unless one refers to the general aims of higher education enunciated by Robbins ( 1963 ) and endorsed by the recent White Paper ( DES 1987 , para. 1.2 ) : ‘ instruction in skills , the promotion of the general powers of the mind , the advancement of learning , and the transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ . |
| 28 | Though one thinks of The Bartered Bride ( among other things ) as a cataract of marvellous vocal melody , it is rarely well performed in Britain , mainly because of our lack of really deep-chested lyric tenors of the type that can making singing Czechs such enthralling neighbours . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't tell me , ’ she said , soothingly , as one does to the deranged . |
| 30 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |