Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sense of security , derived from developing a basic trust in the people most closely involved in their upbringing , provides the fundamental outline of the personal blueprints children draw on to guide them successfully through the relationships they form in later life . |
| 2 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 3 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 4 | He spoke revealingly about the problems he had had with jurisprudence , bemoaning the fact that it was ambivalent and undefined , concerned primarily with the ambiguity which sustains the anthropologist by revealing the centralities of a system : ‘ it was all grey areas ; no black and white certainties or decisions ; no precedent or case law giving the definitive interpretation ’ . |
| 5 | On first encounter it can sound pedestrian , but there 's always something not quite right about the melodies they produce , and the more curiosity that provokes , the more you 're sucked in . |
| 6 | But the fundamental point for me was that it involved a positive recognition of my identity and mutual recognition of our identities and that made it much easier to form more personal sorts of relationships on various social levels with other people you met naturally through the things you were doing , whether it was political or social or whatever . |
| 7 | You can breathe it in through the lungs you can swallow it through the mouth , you can inject it through the skin and you can also absorb it through the skin . |
| 8 | Many agencies have tried to argue that using temporary workers can be cheaper than using permanent staff , because the employer pays only for the hours he needs and because the non-wage labour costs of agency workers are lower . |
| 9 | The sooner Wilson returns , however , the better it will be not only for the teams he plays for but for all of us . |
| 10 | We require also to recruit and motivate the best people and this in turn requires a good reputation , not only for the goods we make and the worthiness of our contribution to society , but also the way in which we do these things , the sort of people we employ and the contributions we make in the area , and whether we are good citizens or not . |
| 11 | Members of these covens are usually ‘ nominal ’ witches who pay only lip-service to the dogmas and are interested in it only for the kicks it provides . |
| 12 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 13 | Perhaps for the reasons he said . |
| 14 | ‘ A Gnat honours his promise , ’ I told him , and I took his kite down off the racks I was amazed how light it was It was beautiful It was big , silicon black , with scarlet lines , and when I took it outside , the sun flashed rainbows off the shoulder hooks . |
| 15 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 16 | During Nigel 's second period in hospital , in between the times I spent there , I set about arranging his funeral . |
| 17 | If he drove on regardless of the conditions he could well be convicted . |
| 18 | Some can be so strong that regardless of the consequences they compel action . |
| 19 | Speechreading develops a sensitive awareness of the speaker , not merely of the words he utters . |
| 20 | For example , in many cases it may be considered sufficient to order the parties to file and deliver lists only of the documents they actually possess . |
| 21 | Provisions are , however , phrased differently from lease to lease and the tenant 's adviser will be expected to construe and amend the particular documentation accordingly , but perhaps considering the guidelines I have laid down . |
| 22 | We're4 not treating the whole window but by doubling the pieces together of the details it gives some feel … restores some interpretation to the original work of art |
| 23 | After passing the stage of infancy the education of the child takes a different shape , the child is taught how to sit and walk properly to avoid having bow legs , for a straight figure is admired by Gikuyu , especially amongst the warriors it is one of the qualities of handsomeness . |
| 24 | Now in the scriptures , we 're gon na have a look at a few because the scriptures counsel us time and again , er that we are living in difficult times , we know that and it can become difficult to stay spiritually alert and awake and that 's why constantly throughout the scriptures you 'll find that we 're er counselled and encouraged to stay awake , stay awake and as we sang stand firm and , and grow mighty spirits , the first one is in Romans chapter thirteen . |
| 25 | Or , and this was more likely , he found Beth too lovely , too desirable , too much like the women he had longed for as a young man , and never had the fortune to find . |
| 26 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 27 | You keep expecting the spell to be shattered , especially as Michael Kitchen is around looking much like the villains he has played lately , but it remains intact . |
| 28 | Entertainingly , interestingly , etcetera , etcetera , all along the lines we 've been talking . |
| 29 | A criticism that has been levelled at clinicians in the past is that they are concerned only with the patients they actually see and not with the wider population . |
| 30 | As they were so into The Faces they 'd go down to Richmond . |