Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On patrol , Constable Keith Raw describes it as a difficult estate to police . |
| 2 | Modern conditions have involved us in rivalry of armaments which is now a conscious struggle to achieve by expenditure and science , by diplomacy and alliances , a balance of power which always eludes us , and because it is always variable and unstable condemns us to a bloodless battle , a dry warfare of steel and gold . |
| 3 | Finally , of the other 20 , there is a whole miscellany , of which the most interesting concerns itself with monastic products ; however , as these are Trappist , presumably the less said , the better ! |
| 4 | Should you get your luggage down as the express hurls itself through Lower Poppleton ? ) |
| 5 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 6 | Wilkinson added : ‘ It brings football into disrepute and washing dirty linen in public does nothing for the game . |
| 7 | Wilkinson added : ‘ It brings football into disrepute and washing dirty linen in public does nothing for the game . |
| 8 | I imagine they 're well ke , they 're well the , they 're old houses them in Weatherfields |
| 9 | The following involves everybody at the same time . |
| 10 | If there is a country house surrounded by grounds and the public has access to the grounds but not to the house , a s.11(1) offence is not committed when the accused removes something from the grounds . |
| 11 | If the accused helps himself to services , for example , by sneaking into a cinema when no one is looking , there is no obtaining by deception . |
| 12 | Nicer easy does it for thrilled Hills |
| 13 | If the arrest is lawful but the accused believes it to be unlawful , he is guilty because he has made a mistake of law : Bentley ( 1850 ) 4 Cox CC 406 . |
| 14 | To say that [ 18a ] and [ 18b ] are simply alternative ways of communicating the same message might be taken to suggest that the decision whether to make the assumption about house-warming parties explicit conveys nothing at all . |
| 15 | The National has something about it . |
| 16 | His aim is not to mock or preach but to explain one country to another , and his sense of the absurd keeps him from becoming solemn . |
| 17 | The pass-codes are a boon , but a game this tricky needs them after EVERY level , not every ten . |
| 18 | Does n't sound as good does it as what I had before ? |
| 19 | Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience . |
| 20 | And standing still brings me to sitting still , which , the more observant amongst you will probably have noticed , I am doing now . |
| 21 | Charles Handy describes him as a man of immense power and influence , but ‘ One who would not exploit it ’ . |
| 22 | ending the scene as he had begun it , with a soliloquy , how lucky he is to have The naked statement of self-seeking reminds us of Iago , as does the confidence with which he approaches the task — ‘ easy ’ ( ‘ For'tis most easy/Th ’ inclining Desdemona to subdue/In any honest suit' ( Othello , II.iii.332ff. ) ) — and the scorn for those taken in by his traps ( ‘ Thus credulous fools are caught ! ’ |
| 23 | However , the evidence that I have available points me towards exploring bad object relations because to understand these , in my view , is to engage with the troubled unconscious of individuals in industrial and other enterprises . |
| 24 | You could argue that the most interesting directors in mainstream Hollywood today are people like David Lynch , Joe Dante and others : tele-visionaries whose aesthetic owes something to the disjunctions of the small screen . |
| 25 | None of the foregoing says anything about the ‘ Silmarils ’ themselves , the jewels which give their name to The Silmarillion , and whose fate determines its plot . |
| 26 | Until about twelve years ago , they wore frock coats , and Clifford ( an Englishman who has adopted tartan trews himself for evening wear ) sees the new uniforms as not only an escape from the banality of the present outfits , but an opportunity to take part in the Scotland 's resurgence of national pride . |
| 27 | Becoming disabled brings us into some odd relationships with people . |
| 28 | Oakeshott 's theory in general provides us with profound insights not only into the nature of government and law , but more especially in helping us to make sense of the British constitution . |
| 29 | A quick sidestep from the sublime to the ridiculous carries one into Ripley 's Very Rough Guide To Rugby . |
| 30 | Taking a big step up price-wise puts us in real working musician territory , with a notional £1500 to spend . |