Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In experiences of communal disaster or of shared pain we can gain support from those who suffer with us . |
| 2 | While we can tinker with the genetics of life or with atomic fission we can not operate with the sensitivity of naturally occurring processes — which might give us cause to consider that technology in certain areas should simply not be pursued at all . |
| 3 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 4 | They all like a dryish soil in full sun ; in rich conditions or in shady spots they tend to grow too lush and produce too few flowers . |
| 5 | The hotel 's restaurant enjoys a good reputation , with a lovely first-floor terrace where on fine days you dine overlooking the lake . |
| 6 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 7 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 9 | We regret that for practical reasons we can not accept cheques less than 7 days prior to date of departure . |
| 10 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 11 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 12 | Used as I am , of course , to drinking from glittering crystal , I admit that for everyday use it is more likely to be the ordinary glass you buy from Woolies or Habitat — sensible , cheap , and reasonably designed . |
| 13 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 14 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 15 | This is because those who are inside the system recognize that as potential sharers they are not equal . |
| 16 | The brief introduction to Piaget 's ideas in Chapter 2 , and our realization that as adult readers we can not read , say , an Ordnance Survey map , a machine drawing , or art forms from cultures not our own with anything like total understanding , should cause us to be cautious and questioning when presented with these assumptions . |
| 17 | The sacring of emperors , kings and bishops signified an acceptance that as Christian rulers they governed subject to eternal or divine laws . |
| 18 | The conduct of persons who daub walls with racist graffiti is also nominally caught , although for practical reasons it may be simpler for the police to arrest and a prosecution brought for criminal damage , which carries a higher penalty if the damage done is sufficiently great , always supposing that the culprit can be apprehended . |
| 19 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 20 | For men , the range is usually between 9200 kJ and 12 100 Kj per day although for manual workers it can be more . |
| 21 | After much of the previous evidence had been repeated , Professor Tidy , a police forensic expert , stated that after detailed examination he had found human blood on all three of the Tidburys ' clothing . |
| 22 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 23 | One of the first complaints was made by three members of CND who were told on 7 July 1986 by the Tribunal ‘ that after careful investigation it was satisfied no contravention of the [ statutory ] criteria had occurred ’ . |
| 24 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 27 | Article 34 of the Vienna Convention applies to itself so that like other treaties it can not bind third parties . |
| 28 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 29 | When you come to analyse his splendid breakfasts you find that with slight changes he might almost be describing a nineteen-sixties , chop-house revival period , West End restaurant lunch . |
| 30 | Tradition says that with other Covenanters he was hanged from the upstairs window of the house that still stands at the north-west corner of Mauchline Cross . |