Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Johnson ( 1987 ) has pointed out that there is something wonderfully absurd about assuming that a retired 66-year-old millionaire is more ‘ dependent ’ in an economic sense than a 64-year-old employed road mender . |
| 2 | Are you getting apprehensive about riding as the years tick by ? |
| 3 | It is further worth noting that the lack of confidence in the police by black people is now reaching other parts of the criminal justice system , notably the courts . |
| 4 | My Afrikaner grandfather was fond of repeating that a man needs six hours , a woman seven , and a bloody fool eight' hours ' sleep — a sentiment which nicely incorporated both his simple male chauvinism and a Calvinist abomination of indulgence . |
| 5 | The president is fond of repeating that the members of Gladio were ‘ patriots ’ . |
| 6 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 7 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 8 | In this sense there is nothing wrong with saying that a body has both the ( legal ) power and a ( legal ) duty to do X because , of course , if a body by law must do X , then it is legally entitled to do X. Secondly , we need to distinguish between legal powers and what we might call ‘ de facto ’ powers . |
| 9 | There is nothing wrong with ensuring that a benefiting nation spends its gift vouchers in our national shops . |
| 10 | If one hive of bees catches foul brood , but another does not , we can legitimately ask whether the difference is genetic or environmental in origin , but that is quite different from asking whether the behaviour itself , in its development , is genetic or environmental . |
| 11 | This is radically different from showing that the original effect was spurious . |
| 12 | But to argue that an embryo is sacred is different from saying that a sperm is sacred . |
| 13 | The emphasis on medium , form and aesthetic grammar would suggest that , whatever their ‘ content ’ or ‘ effect ’ , they are somehow different ; at the simplest level , saying that a history or sociology book is badly written is different from saying that a novel is badly written . |
| 14 | That , however , is very different from arguing that the introduction of PR or the demands of Charter 88 will at the very best , provide anything but the most marginal relief to those who are unemployed , without a home or ca n't pay the poll tax . |
| 15 | Muggeridge had been percipient in recognizing that the monarchy would increasingly have to live in a goldfish bowl and that would provide a new challenge for the image-makers . |
| 16 | Am I wrong in thinking that the old days , if not the best , were the most enjoyable ? |
| 17 | And they are wrong in thinking that the judgment lay entirely in the future : the decisive battle which dethroned Satan had been won on the cross , and from now on he was a defeated foe , and believers were ransacking his empire . |
| 18 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 19 | Few British juries had ever been happy ‘ to equate ordinary sexual desire with depravity ’ , as the Working Party would have had it , but Williams a decade later was equally wrong in assuming that the 1959 test was therefore null and void . |
| 20 | The infallibilist may insist that I can not be wrong in believing that the way things look to me is pink , though I can be wrong in supposing that ‘ pink ’ is the word to use to describe the way things look . |
| 21 | Furthermore there is independent evidence that the Harvard faculty was wrong in stating that the English generic masculine is simply a feature of grammar . |
| 22 | Although the trial judge in Jones was said to have been wrong in saying that the police need not have informed her of the presence of a solicitor called by another person , the admission of a statement made by Jones in the absence of a solicitor was upheld . |
| 23 | To go to the one man in the world most interested in seeing that the evidence never came out and then to put into his hands the means of ensuring that it never could come out ! |
| 24 | He was very interested in discovering whether the tattoo would grow as he grew and he thought he already detected some enlargement . |
| 25 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested in determining whether a universal human proclivity toward aggression exists , or whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale . |
| 26 | As a private registry it was available only to the trading partners , and not to third parties interested in knowing whether a given shipment was sold , pledged , or had taken place . |
| 27 | When in 1887 Florence Lees persuaded Queen Victoria to devote most of the women 's jubilee offering to establishing district nursing throughout England , the Cravens , together with Florence Nightingale and William Rathbone , were instrumental in ensuring that the Metropolitan and National Nursing Association became the model for Queen Victoria 's Jubilee Institute for Nurses . |
| 28 | And the world is all too prone to assuming that a scientific solution can work a miracle . |
| 29 | The solutions of equations ( 9.76 ) are the physical meaning of which becomes clear on appreciating that the propagation constant is complex , say , and that , , and are phasors relating to quantities of the form . |
| 30 | ( This would be roughly analogous to claiming that the two different posts in an organization are really the same because their occupants report to the same superior . ) |