Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is scorched-earth commentary , razing to the ground everything that might provide some cover for his quarry , stripping the plays of all that renders them humanly habitable . |
| 2 | That holds him so steady in his wounds , so loyal to his doom , so patient |
| 3 | Wheat beers also use top-fermenting yeasts ( they are not lagers , contrary to widespread belief ) , and this renders them doubly fruity . |
| 4 | Because sentencing is viewed by magistrates as a craft or mystery , whose rites are known only to initiates , ( as opposed to a rational enterprise dedicated to the pursuit of externally defined goals ) , this renders it both impervious to criticism from outside , and highly resistant to attempts at external control . |
| 5 | An understanding of this renders it much easier to comprehend the no evidence doctrine and the reasons for the exceptions made to it in more recent years . |
| 6 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 7 | This tells you how much you can borrow so that you can concentrate your search within a given price range . |
| 8 | The actinides are more variable in their oxidation states , and this gives them more varied colors , but again the spectra of compounds derived from a given oxidation state are likely to be very similar . |
| 9 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 10 | This gives you so much more flexibility to have people to stay , to rent out a room if you become hard up or to simply have a room to move into while you decorate your main bedroom . |
| 11 | This gives you far more flexibility . |
| 12 | This terrifies them as much as it terrified your committee on your behalf . |
| 13 | This is , as it were , an extract from a big wall painting ; and while fig. 108 gives us a whole composition , this brings us much nearer to the colour effect , though not quite there since the vase-painter is limited to clay-based colours which will withstand firing . |
| 14 | This makes them incredibly difficult to see , let alone capture on film . |
| 15 | In turn , this makes them differentially susceptible to pathogens and herbivores . |
| 16 | This makes them very unpleasant to use and some residents will prefer not to . |
| 17 | Polymers do not form perfectly elastic solids , as a limited amount of bond rotation can occur in the glass which allows slight plastic deformation ; this makes them somewhat tougher than an inorganic glass . |
| 18 | After a certain stage , children become able to use a greater variety of linguistic devices to express certain sorts of clausal relations and this makes them less reliant on dependent-clause structures . |
| 19 | Brooks Brothers and IBM are both unique businesses , and unfortunately this makes them less susceptible to any advice based on more general cases . |
| 20 | As pellets are not normally susceptible to early leaching , only intergranular pores are present in the pelletoidal grainstones and this makes them less porous than the associated oolitic grainstones ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 21 | Beds or borders of a width such that the centre is at arms " length from any point on the edge will be easier to maintain , but if this makes them too narrow for your choice , stepping-stones in the border make life a lot easier and incidentally add to the border " s appearance . |
| 22 | This makes them uniquely suitable for investigations into the actual mechanisms of siderite concretion formation . |
| 23 | This makes them more susceptible to the effects of Waaagh energy . |
| 24 | However , with fewer breaks pilots tend to take it for granted that they will not get a cable break , and this makes them more vulnerable when one does occur . |
| 25 | This makes them more varied to look at , and in general perhaps more picturesque , but it is not easy to make them intelligible to someone who has not seen them . |
| 26 | Pregnant women experience increased laxity of their ligaments due to increased production of the hormone relaxin , and he argues that this makes them more prone to soft tissue injury than normal . |
| 27 | The bones gradually become thinner and more porous — that is , they have holes , and this makes them more likely to break . |
| 28 | This makes me even angrier . |
| 29 | Frightening , frenzied and funny by turn , this makes you less quick to dismiss salesmen as selfish and sly . |
| 30 | In most casings this makes it pretty awkward to get at , but the Sigma 's casing is spacious enough to allow access to these vital sockets . |