Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 2 | When we got outside , I was n't sure whether to shut the door on the latch or leave it ajar for the nurse . |
| 3 | None of the new features take away control from the user or make it harder or more complex to use , a strategy which some other vendors would do well to emulate . |
| 4 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 5 | You work lightly so as not to draw in the knitting or make it lumpy and you could also undo lightly worked stitches more easily . |
| 6 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 7 | But Christianity is the only religion that makes it clear that only one god exists . |
| 8 | I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . " |
| 9 | She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick . |
| 10 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 11 | And , in the end , feckless ones , it is , as we must always say , the songs that prove it all . |
| 12 | The sayings of country people , sometimes tinged with poetry , always rich in concrete images and braced with the vigour and rhythm that gives them long life , are worth revealing . |
| 13 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 14 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 15 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 16 | His dilated pupils told one story , the honesty of the eyes that enclosed them another . |
| 17 | There was something about the look in his eyes that told her this was a time to listen and not argue . |
| 18 | She kept on his wavelength by talking about the subjects that pleased him most — and these frequently concentrated on the state of his behind . |
| 19 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |
| 20 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 21 | But this means to say that he has no rule that takes him one way rather than another in a new case . |
| 22 | Bantamweight Karen Briggs , featherweight Sharon Rendle and light-middleweight Diane Bell all won on Saturday with performances that make them odds-on favourites for medals in Barcelona . |
| 23 | It 's the interchangeableness of this , these words that makes it difficult to understand |
| 24 | ‘ Is there anything about Toby that makes you uneasy ? ’ |
| 25 | I abhor the poetry voie that makes it special , churchy — — though ’ , Beth interrupts , ‘ you have to be true to the rhythm in a poem , that 's vital , the lifeblood of the thing … ‘ |
| 26 | We should not be bothered by safeguarding entrenched institutions , nor about winners or losers , but by how better to persuade tourists to come to Scotland and how to help the industry that makes them welcome . |
| 27 | When the sun rises they shine with a brilliant light that makes it impossible to keep one 's eyes fixed upon it . |
| 28 | By the time I see her put on her high heels that make it worse though . |
| 29 | There are hotels which keep you waiting at reception , restaurants that serve you cold coffee , shops which never have what you want in stock , mail-order firms that take three months to deliver the wrong goods . |
| 30 | The boots have a Vibram dual density sole that gave me all the grip and comfort I needed over steep wet grass and rough ground . |