Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 2 | ( Cash more and Troyna , the editors of the volume in which Rex 's paper appeared , were widely criticized for their own collapse into a cultural essentialism which accused ‘ black youth ’ of being ‘ arrogant , rumbustious and contemptuous ’ and having ‘ a certain fascination for violence ’ ( 1982 , pp. 18 , 33 ) . ) |
| 3 | STYLISTICS , simply defined as the ( linguistic ) study of style , is rarely undertaken for its own sake , simply as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 4 | A related problem with copying other people 's arguments can be seen by comparing an excerpt from a plagiarised text ( a ) with the essay version derived from it ( b ) : ( a ) Stylistics , simply defined as the ( linguistic ) study of style , is rarely undertaken for its own sake , simply as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd rather stay under my own roof . |
| 6 | The majority of elderly people would far rather stay in their own homes rather than live in residential homes , however good that home may be . |
| 7 | The SFO had alleged that they secretly arranged for their own companies to buy shares , thereby raising the take-up level announced to other investors . |
| 8 | Sometimes , of course , bags are searched , but the removal of company property from the premises of licensed dealers is rarely punished by anything more than instant dismissal , acceptable enough at the time to the culprits , as it coincides with their own plans . |
| 9 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |
| 10 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 11 | Relatives who are carers may also find that the requirement for professional support to be given locally infringes on their own rights to privacy . |
| 12 | He was discovered and bitterly attacked by his former friends in the next parliamentary session . |
| 13 | Advisers in feedback sessions made few references to the self-appraisal and mostly reported on their own visits . |
| 14 | The Duchess has even taken up sketching to feel more at one with the subject of her new book ( Victoria apparently relied on her own sketches rather than paparazzi snaps or pictures in Hello ! as mementoes of overseas trips ) and admits that she , like the late Queen , is a ‘ tireless traveller ’ . |
| 15 | Licensed dealers trade on a scale that is only limited by their own resources . |
| 16 | That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives . |
| 17 | This desire has shewn itself in some minds in the advocacy of the introduction of some new style especially marking our own age , in others in the wish to see the Architecture which so especially belongs to our own and immediately neighbouring Countries , — and which for some classes of buildings has already been so completely revived , — adapted to the especial requirements of our own times and all the inventions habits and comforts incident to them . |
| 18 | It seemed so stupid for him to be literally drowning in his own box . |
| 19 | Although there are only 15 contractors , they have between them 50-odd transmitters , each of which needs two copies of the commercial ( at least ) , so allowing for your own copies and back-up stock , you will need 115 or so bulks for a national campaign . |
| 20 | Individuals are neither slaves to their attitudes , nor are they necessarily masters of their own destiny . |
| 21 | Tonight , as a cold wintry blizzard rages outside , our hearts are warm with the satisfaction of the continuing public service which you have all enjoyed from your own station CHAB , and which the C.B.C . |
| 22 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 23 | Had she gold , poor woman , so to entrap for herself that monstrous lump of selfishness ? |
| 24 | Christians never entirely clarified to their own satisfaction the questions about how much of this appeal they could afford to yield to . |
| 25 | After all , you do n't invite the left in to gloat at your own failure . |
| 26 | In my view , an unsharp image in colour however beautiful will rarely be strong enough to stand on its own , whereas the same image in black & white can through the nature of the medium , become a tantalising and thought provoking subject . |
| 27 | I have contacted several franchised dealers with no luck , being told that Land Rover only supply to their own service personnel . |
| 28 | Some doctors are so overwhelmed by their own emotions that they find it hard to handle the mother 's . |
| 29 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |
| 30 | However , even with this unpromising start , more could possibly have been achieved with a leadership less trapped in its own class origins . |