Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 2 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 3 | Since he finally won test honours against France in the domestic series in 1991 McKenzie has established himself as arguably the world 's best tighthead prop . |
| 4 | The two modes fight it out in Schlesinger 's Billy Liar , where the hero escapes from the constraints of life in an undertaking business by fantasizing himself as variously a soldier , Winston Churchill , a gunman mowing down his family or an aristocrat living with obliging parents whose behaviour is strikingly different from that of the real screeching proletarians . |
| 5 | Alyssia took a deep breath to steady her nerves , and then said unsteadily , ‘ Nicole is more to you than just a friend , is n't she ? |
| 6 | At once CAMRA declared itself as both a consumer and a conservationist watchdog , speaking up for citizens as well as consumers against the abuses inflicted on one of our best national traditions . |
| 7 | It saw itself as primarily a teaching institution and Lindop underlined that ‘ we are at pains to ensure that we recruit staff who share our view of the primacy of teaching ’ , and the Polytechnic was requiring new and inexperienced staff to attend an in-service training programme of about 250 hours in their first year . |
| 8 | Its view of itself as strictly an object database engine provider has changed to encompass solutions , migration and gateways . |
| 9 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 10 | Rourke was more to her than just an employer . |
| 11 | Is there a man out there with more to him than just the change in his pockets ? |
| 12 | Andy Macdonald has more going for him than merely the fact that he stands 6ft 8in . |
| 13 | He had not realized the impact on him until nearly a year later he found himself shaking and crying and saying to himself , ‘ I was nearly killed there ’ . |
| 14 | I know that girl , know her as only a mother can , and I know she 's not well . |
| 15 | He gave him as sharp a look as he dared . |
| 16 | There was more to it than just a change of style . |
| 17 | You see , I think there was much more to it than just the fact that they were childless . ’ |
| 18 | The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place . |
| 19 | But we 're likely to make more money at it than perhaps the sweat shops do . |
| 20 | If food to be eaten raw or without further cooking has thawed , it 's acceptable to refreeze it if just the surface has softened but you can still feel some ice . |
| 21 | How could you refute it when just the memory of his scathing comments made your eyes fill with tears ? |
| 22 | Up until that moment I had seen myself as simply a person ; colour of skin had n't registered with me . |
| 23 | I had always seen myself as potentially a sort of protector of her ; and for the first time , that evening at Bourani , I saw that perhaps she had been , or could have been , a protector of me . |
| 24 | You may not consider yourself as either a salesperson or a negotiator but you are a persuader nonetheless . |
| 25 | I asked her whether she felt she could walk past them , giving them as wide a berth as the width of the pavement would allow . |
| 26 | There are also some that are actually innocuous but are seldom eaten for they have taken a rather complicated gamble by copying the colours of poisonous caterpillars to delude aggressors into giving them as wide a berth as the creatures they mimic . |
| 27 | None of the cases in this court to which Mr. Munby has invited our attention are binding on us because seemingly the court never considered what powers it had to make a suitable order under section 13 of the Act of 1960 . |
| 28 | We never talk about it : we never talk about anything though so the fact that we do n't talk about that does n't mean much . |