Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 2 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 3 | The only rigour in Hennigian cladistics is produced by the straitjacket of assumptions that Hennig has fastened on himself and his version of the subject , which effectively separates it from having anything to do with evolution . |
| 4 | Jane Austen rather prides herself on writing on things with a fairly restricted area of interest , whereas George Eliot , on the other hand , I think is interested to write about all sorts of things . |
| 5 | The NZRFU rather prides itself on its official-player liaison , of treating its players handsomely , and it rather hopes that they in turn would treat the NZRFU with courtesy , if not affection . |
| 6 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 7 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 8 | What right has he in me , but such as a thief may plead to stolen goods ? |
| 9 | Below : An aging male babirusa that appears near to the day when it slowly gores itself through its forehead . |
| 10 | ‘ We call it that because the body only produces it at night , ’ says pioneering researcher Dr Alfred Lewy of the Oregon Health Sciences Uni-versity in America . |
| 11 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 12 | Sure , the ambiguous title allows 30 seconds of salacious conjecture , but that double-bluff ‘ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ’ non-chorus scores a direct miss , and the sound of five men bashing around in the darkness in search of a tune merely drains you of the will to live . ’ |
| 13 | As an ‘ old China hand ’ , Mr Bush apparently prides himself on his personal understanding in dealing with the Chinese ; and as a former CIA director , he is not averse to secrecy . |
| 14 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 15 | THERE are times when life not only kicks you in the teeth , but follows up with the knee in the groin and the rabbit punch to the back of the neck as well . |
| 16 | This not only separates him from his brothers but also from God and is disastrous . |
| 17 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 18 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |
| 19 | This is the untold story of an exchange which rightly prides itself on an ability to offer efficient markets in leading shares but which can not cope with the unattractive smaller companies . |
| 20 | She 's taking advantage of him , she only wants him for his money . |
| 21 | Resist him and keep remembering that he only wants you to further his ambitions … |
| 22 | One focus is Jesus , who reveals the love of God for us , and so reconciles us to God , ; the other is the spiritual and ethical community which he founded . |
| 23 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 24 | One primary schools only has one inside toilet for 60 pupils in one of its buildings . |
| 25 | As in this passage , Genet not only disguises himself in terms of the law , but internalizes the disguise . |
| 26 | This affordable scheme not only covers you for loss of income , but is useful for the unforeseen expenses as well . |
| 27 | All employees are issued a with a security card which not only allows them into the building but also stores details of their credit facilities . |
| 28 | Obviously blames me for sticking a needle into him , and I expect he always will . ’ |
| 29 | Similarly , the Andante ‘ on an old German Minnelied ’ does not move along as freely and naturally as it should and so loses something of its song quality . |
| 30 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |