Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back over this early venture , it is easy enough to see in it the seeds of what was to come . |
| 2 | In arguing this he not only collapses the specificity of consumption but also misrepresents the relationship between the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ social ’ in Marx 's argument , for it is not for the individual consumer to recognize himself in another individual 's product anyway , but to recognize the socially-imprinted character and meaning of the product … and so to find in it the satisfaction of ‘ need ’ ( ibid : 30 ) . |
| 3 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 4 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 5 | Because he is not going for discovery or new connection or progression , but only to repeat upon himself a known reaction . |
| 6 | ‘ Mme Verard was in her hundredth year or more when I was fortunate enough to take in mine the hand that proved the loyal instrument of God 's will for this pagan place and its people . |
| 7 | Pop is un-natural , larger than life and insistent enough to make of itself an inevitable pad of the landscape , like a motorway , or pollution . |
| 8 | Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all . |
| 9 | It is very important to give children room to think for themselves and not to impose on them a restricting interpretation of truth . |
| 10 | The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed . |
| 11 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 12 | Really that was n't actually dis the staffing issues themselves were n't discussed , but just to recap on what the situation is with the staffing issues and what 's meant by that . |
| 13 | Er just to run through what the two what the two schools sort of think it will be fair to say that the traditional school thinks as follows . |
| 14 | The demonstration at Cardiff was aimed at giving PDAG one last chance not to co-operate with what the society claims are Government education quangos . |
| 15 | If we are ever to pass through what a shrewd American has named the ‘ moronic inferno ’ into what I call ‘ the oxyinoronic paradiso ’ , then responses from a deeper level are required . |
| 16 | can I say that as long as the integrity of each religion is preserved , then education is a very sound er erm is very sound in prospect , but sadly it has become a melting pot and as my Noble Friends like to refer to it a mish-mash and I do n't think it does anything more than serve to confuse children if it 's done badly . |
| 17 | Still others are there to show their sympathy and respect , but also to see for themselves the spectacle of a city 's mass grief … |
| 18 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 19 | When I went up to check on him a few minutes ago , his bed was empty and cold ; it had n't been slept in . |
| 20 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 21 | For we still believe that our femaleness is a biological entity ; but it is this biology that a century ago wished to remove our clitoris and that continues now to impose upon us a desire that only functions in passive reaction to the actions of men , and that is as a result based in narcissism and masochism . |
| 22 | After assuring us of our sonship the Spirit sets out to reproduce in us the character and graces of the family into which we have been adopted . |
| 23 | That the calf is afraid of death , let alone its fleeing it as the greatest of evils , seems misleadingly to ascribe to it a self-conscious grasp of death and evil , possible only of beings capable of language . |
| 24 | What I hope to do is simply to share with you the life of Idigo and in experiences and to walk alongside him and also to help us reflectively to look and examine our own journey where are we with God ? |
| 25 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 26 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 27 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 28 | She had long realised that while Luther Reynolds lived , David would always be there to pander to his every whim . |
| 29 | The old lady now moved her shoulder to let George Banks , the butler , take her plate away and hand it to Patrick McCann , who was standing behind him , then to place before her a plate he had taken from the sideboard ; and she , after looking down on it , turned her head up towards him and said , ‘ Iced pudding , Banks ? |
| 30 | It naturally combines with the view that individuals should develop freely to find for themselves the form of the good which they wish to pursue in their life . |