Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it ties in with my earlier discussion of ethology and my original Cartesian Figure 3.1 , and with my assertion that we have a psychological need to perceive ourselves as normal and ell regulated . |
| 2 | The response to this ad has illustrated what many of us suspect these days : there is in our industry a great wealth of under-utilised talent and experience which , far from regarding itself as unemployed and job hunting , is highly entrepreneurial and self-reliant . |
| 3 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 4 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 5 | Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] regarded him as boastful and empty-headed ; but his bombast must have concealed political shrewdness and commercial acumen . |
| 6 | ‘ Do just pop over and ask them whether Squish and Trouncy can make it under their own steam on Saturday or whether they 'll need a lift . ’ |
| 7 | They rate themselves as caring and understanding . |
| 8 | Managerial hierarchy or layering is the only effective organizational form for deploying people and tasks at complementary levels , where people can do the tasks assigned to them , where the people in any given layer can add value to the work of those in the layer below them , and finally , where this stratification of management strikes everyone as necessary and welcome . |
| 9 | Braque , on the other hand , wanted to paint these distances or spaces , to make them as real and concrete for the spectator as the objects themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ The old religion , Vi , has been with us as long as time and has nothing to do with the Church of Rome . |