Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so dazed by all he had just been through that he could n't think straight . |
| 2 | [ Richard Long 's ] forms , the marks , the accidental decantations of sensitive strolls , do not possess the ‘ imperfection ’ of the natural , they are the archetypes of human sublimation that deliberately establish a certain landscape counterpoint , a kind of megalithic writing , but their elaboration is so cared for that it tends towards a dialectic not of oppositions but of alliances . |
| 3 | At the present juncture there is no evidence to suggest that this crime is necessarily linked to those you have mentioned , or indeed to any others . ’ |
| 4 | With almond-shaped eyes thickly outlined in black she looked from one face to another , Mada Joyce , appreciating the situation immediately , pulled Martha forward . |
| 5 | Patrick hovered around the door for a few moments and then finally decided to brazen it out . |
| 6 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at the committee stage of the Finance Bill or when Peter Lilley , the Social Security Secretary , makes his announcement uprating benefits in the autumn . |
| 7 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at a later stage . |
| 8 | ‘ Er — Jim 's just got to OK it with the boss , ’ he said uncertainly . |
| 9 | I 'm not used to this you know . |
| 10 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 11 | Children do not have that choice , and if they are not helped by those they rely on to deal with their frightening and disturbing feelings then they can suffer considerable harm . |
| 12 | If it 's just left like that I shall just take the whole lot and dump it in the dustbin ! |
| 13 | Sunk costs can be easily identified in that they will have been paid or are subject to legally binding contracts and the firm is committed to paying for these contracts in the future . |
| 14 | But in the partition of the Warwick and Salisbury lands which was finally achieved in 1474 it was Gloucester who secured the Welsh estates . |
| 15 | But in the partition of the Warwick and Salisbury lands which was finally achieved in 1474 it was Gloucester who secured the Welsh estates . |
| 16 | They are corridor carriages , but differ from those of the ‘ West Coast Joint Stock ’ above described in that they are slightly narrower , in order to be of uniform width with the present ordinary rolling stock , their actual body width being eight feet . |
| 17 | A Prolific spokesman said : ‘ While our PEP was not launched until 1987 we 've worked out the theory . ’ |
| 18 | If Amanda Pennington ever heard about this he would die of shame . |
| 19 | The main hypothesis is that some CSPs are socially differentiated in that they are not all used by every social group , and that people are more aware of these CSPs than of others . |
| 20 | While the system of ‘ payment by results ’ was formally abolished in 1895 it has continued over the years to represent an enormous affront to the professional consciousness of teachers and a threat to the creation of an effective educational service . |
| 21 | Cinematic signification again taken generically is further de-differentiated in that it portrays the primary process and sexuality , not as a deep otherness , but as erupting on the very surface of representations . |
| 22 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 23 | In 838 , both reacted to Charles 's promotion by plotting against the old emperor ; and when Louis the German answered his father 's summons to an assembly at Nijmegen in May , there was another unseemly row , which ended in the son 's being formally deprived of all he held outside Bavaria . |
| 24 | Their jobs , by their very nature , were manipulative , and some , like Harry Cohn of Columbia , were positively loathed by many he had under contract . |
| 25 | Jack Russells are difficult animals to teach to retrieve — I have only had one that would do it properly — but they can be taught to work nets , drive rabbits into nets and to be thoroughly disciplined in all they do . |
| 26 | The EC-IBM 1984 agreement was also dated in that it applied only to mainframes ( specifically the IBM 370 series and successors ( which were now of less than their previous dominant significance . |
| 27 | In Raman spectra totally symmetric modes are uniquely identified in that they give rise only to Q-branches , whereas vibrations of any other symmetry give , ± 1 and ± 2 branches . |
| 28 | The Lamar Alternator Failure Warning Light Relays ( Lamar Part No 00258 , Piper number 587863 ) had catastrophically failed in that they had caught fire . |
| 29 | We have n't even talked about that we just talk and talk about anything and everything . |
| 30 | Your aim should be to see that she does not suffer long periods of loneliness and that she feels so well cared for that she can manage to endure her period of sorrow without too many crutches , until life becomes worth living again . |