Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast Frances Spalding 's final chapter , ‘ The Modern Face ’ , is surprisingly tentative for such an experienced writer : she obviously contemplates deserting the more endangered of Bloomsbury species the rank amateur as opposed to the merely amateurish but in the end mounts a token defence , and so damns them with faint art history . |
| 2 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 3 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 4 | Instead of the negation of all individuality , we are offered a parable of a single individual who , in his heroic struggle , " takes the whole Dionysiac world on his back and thus relieves us of that burden " . |
| 5 | Thus the name ‘ man ’ is simply a name used for a number of particulars , and any idea of ‘ man ’ is always an idea of some particular man , and simply reminds us of other particulars . |
| 6 | The larva heaps sand or soil onto its head and jaws and then flicks it with some force up and behind it , working in a circle to produce a conical pit . |
| 7 | The first person in each team places it on their nose and then passes it to other members of the team without using their hands . |
| 8 | So do I divide that by five and then times it by ten ? |
| 9 | He is not a neutral observer who first learns to define Truth and then applies it to different aspects of life . |
| 10 | He bombards male insects with radioactive particles to sterilise them and then releases them in huge numbers , so condemning generations of females to infertility . |
| 11 | It uses optical scanning to store information on computer and then networks it to scattered staff who index , abstract and compile the material for an on-line database in Amsterdam . |
| 12 | I think the second sort of problem , that you referred to , you have these quite sharp contrasts between the sort of Gatwick erm Crawley area spreading out , where you 've got a young population erm and the coast , where you 've got an ageing population — how does the county allocate its resources and how does it above all , having built schools in Gatwick in Crawley , then convert them to teenage centres and so on . |
| 13 | and again rotates it through another so square root of minus one times the square root of minus one is the same effect as multiplying by minus one . |
| 14 | In this instance , Greenblatt does successfully illuminate a selective consideration in a manner which profitably and suggestively links it with larger issues the play addresses . |