Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 2 | She was superb throughout , counselling me to stay out , and this made my eventual decision all the more poignant . |
| 3 | This is a fascinating place to work and during my first year here the business has continued to develop . |
| 4 | With the tub installed in their Simi Valley home the happy couple indulged in regular fun and games in it , with never a thought for their high blood pressure . |
| 5 | She was her matter-of-fact self again the moment Clarissa clung to her and really cried . |
| 6 | If the phase current is established at its rated value then the maximum voltage ( Vce max ) across the switching transistor occurs in the instant after the transistor switch is opened . |
| 7 | Sister Imelda , the only nun in the convent who was good with the needle , had been in her sick bed so a very poor job had been done on taking up the hem . |
| 8 | It will be evident in the life of the whole school community , and in the various elements which contribute to its distinctive ethos e.g. the quality of relationships , shared liturgy , community service , differing forms of retreat and religious experience , and , above all , in the witness of practising Catholics , both staff and pupils alike . |
| 9 | English spelling was standardised in its present form only a little more than 200 years ago . |
| 10 | The Church remained a supernatural fortress set against the world , its walls manned night and day by the committed , its lonely leader almost an oracle of heavenly wisdom . |
| 11 | She should be grateful for that , she told herself irritably — instead , it only served to heighten her growing frustration all the more . |
| 12 | Both teams have lost their first game so a win tomorrow is vital if they want to have a realistic chance of making the play-offs . |
| 13 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 14 | Where a woman fails to perform her expected role properly the GP tends to see her ‘ either in terms of the conventional models of their own social background ( she must adjust to her situation ) , or in terms of individual personal inadequacy ( that she must be referred to the psychiatrist ) ’ ( Barrett and Roberts , 1978 , p. 46 ) . |
| 15 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 16 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh no , you could n't do it that way otherwise the horse would be certain to win . ’ |
| 18 | Wang Sau-leyan smiled and looked about him , his broad face momentarily the image of his father 's when he was younger , then he looked down . |
| 19 | His upbeat message just a day after Chancellor Norman Lamont warned that full economic recovery could be three years away sparked an angry clash with Labour . |
| 20 | Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage . |
| 21 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 22 | Mr Brooke invited to his round table both the Ulster Unionists and the Democratic Unionists , along with the centrist Alliance , and the SDLP ( who have been the intended beneficiaries of the whole exercise since the Anglo-Irish Agreement — the actual beneficiaries have been the IRA ) . |
| 23 | On the death of his eldest brother only a few weeks later , he was apprenticed to his father as a chemist . |
| 24 | The other stage workers found his dead body there an hour ago — with a rope around his neck ! ’ |
| 25 | What good will just the teachings of Jesus and the church do the poor tramp sitting outside the church ? |
| 26 | It will make our future association all the more interesting and rewarding . ’ |
| 27 | In total you can not actually pay more than fifteen percent of salary to erm these well to contributions so in effect you you 're already paying six percent as your basic contribution so the maximum you could pay on any of these schemes is a further nine percent . |
| 28 | In our comfortable holiday home the kids cut out and coloured a dynasty of paper people while we caught up on our videos . |
| 29 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
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