Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another concept which sometimes falls to be analysed in such all or nothing fashion is ‘ dishonesty ’ as it impinges upon the definition of theft and a cluster of deception offences under the Theft Acts . |
| 2 | As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them . |
| 3 | All the communication was by telephone , and the finding child was instructed to look only where her partner told her to look and to make use of the telephone to discover the exact location of the object . |
| 4 | [ 1979 ] A.C. 440 , Lord Diplock stated the key principle to be that the general rule may be departed from only where its application would ‘ frustrate or render impracticable the administration of justice . ’ |
| 5 | She really was n't any good at this game of deception — especially where her friend was concerned . |
| 6 | However , direct coercive sanctions require continuous effort , and may in fact be a rather brittle form of social control , so we should not expect dominant groups in different societies to rely wholly and simply on such crude means of retaining their power and privilege , especially where their position has long been entrenched . |
| 7 | Coleridge 's other drug-induced efforts are sheer doggerel by comparison and like many drug addicts he was famous for frequently taking great liberties with the exact truth — especially where his drug habit was involved . |
| 8 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 9 | The people could n't have been working well enough or my plan was too optimistic . |
| 10 | There had been a month or so where her face had been seen almost daily on TV : they had not yet quite forgotten . |
| 11 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 12 | ‘ Certainly it 's what I want , ’ said Robyn , so fiercely that her mother let the subject drop . |
| 13 | As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years . |
| 14 | They could light no fire , and Ratagan prophesied gloomily that their camp that night would be cheerless . |
| 15 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 16 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 17 | Fearing suddenly that their behaviour might upset Jacques Devraux , Loc ran quickly across the clearing towards them . |
| 18 | Oh , hell ! she thought , and , furious with herself as much as him suddenly that her thoughts alone could make her so angry , she turned the shower on full force and tried to drown her thoughts that way . |
| 19 | ‘ Irish League fans should n't worry too much that their clubs have fallen behind those in the League of Ireland . |
| 20 | ‘ Irish League fans should n't worry too much that their clubs have fallen behind those in the League of Ireland . |
| 21 | Adults tend to dismiss as worthless much that their children read , while having a nostalgic affection for similar material read in their own childhood . |
| 22 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 23 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 24 | We must return to the world , I fear , but first — ’ And he kissed her cheek , so gently that her tears flowed again , only they were tears of joy , not pain . |
| 25 | I have to point out gently that her gifts have never helped her become a better human being . |
| 26 | The Bishop says gently that his path simply does not cross those of the diocese 's landed families . |
| 27 | She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared . |
| 28 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 29 | You will see from the graphs below that our turnover and pre-tax profit figures reached record levels last year . |
| 30 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |