Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spirit becomes in effect a weak counterpart to the male Logos : I say weak because clearly the Spirit is not differentiated in the sense in which the Logos is associated with a male human being . |
| 2 | This broad classification of EEG activity into ongoing and event-related is purely arbitrary since , as Hillyard and Woods ( 1979 ) point out , even ongoing EEG activity might be considered event-related if only the event concerned could be specified . |
| 3 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 4 | Aluminium had recently been prepared in bulk by the eminent Parisian Professor Henri Ste-Claire Deville , who became famous as both a teacher and researcher . |
| 5 | POWELL : That — that nursery of traitors and nest of vipers. ( clears throat ) A phrase which has become classic if not an actual thing . |
| 6 | Criminal proceedings could be started in Libya , but this had so far proved impossible because neither the USA nor the UK authorities had responded to his requests to hand over copies of the evidence in their possession . |
| 7 | He watched amused as both the Cambridge detectives shook hands gingerly , obviously taken aback . |
| 8 | If the competitor falls ill while abroad the book does not help . |
| 9 | I never use black as only the Spanish could really use it . |
| 10 | She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried . |
| 11 | So Schwarz was left alone as almost the only supporter of string theory , but now with the much higher proposed value of the string tension . |
| 12 | The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye |
| 13 | ( Workers sat around playing cards because their daily quota had been met ; whole teams stood idle because only the appointed mechanic was allowed to turn a particular screw ; and so on . ) |