Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
| 2 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 3 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 4 | He blamed the fall of the city on the impiety and general degeneracy of the people , who had been so foolish as to ally themselves with Christians in the first place . |
| 5 | It 's a very positive way of letting out pent-up aggression and far less dangerous than slashing someone across the face with your stick — and I 've got the scars to prove it . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm sorry if landing you with the girl 's clothes is an embarrassment . |
| 7 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 8 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 9 | ‘ Nevertheless it has to be recognised that there is an unbroken series of dicta in judgments of appellate courts to the effect that there is a judicial discretion to exclude admissible evidence which has been ‘ obtained ’ unfairly or by trickery or oppressively , although except in Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 , there never has been a case in which those courts have come across conduct so unfair , so tricky or so oppressive as to justify them in holding that the discretion ought to have been exercised in favour of exclusion . |
| 10 | In certain circumstances the trial judge might feel that the facts relating to the making of statements such as those made in this case to Mr. O'Hanlon were so unusual as to justify him in directing the prosecution to furnish them to the defence , but this must be a matter within the discretion of the trial judge . |
| 11 | JEWKES : O , you are very good , sir , very forgiving indeed , but come , I hope you will be so good as to take her to your bosom and that my tomorrow morning you 'll bring her to a better sense of her duty . |
| 12 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 13 | Never again would he be so stupid as to embroil himself in something like this . |
| 14 | This , however , is not at all uncommon when regressing someone to such an early age , for babies do not have an awareness of time in the same way that adults do . |
| 15 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 16 | Chasing prey through the tree-tops is much more hazardous than pursuing them along the ground , as this raccoon-hunting puma is discovering ( below ) . |
| 17 | Far better to let them grow up safe than expose them by making himself conspicuous . |
| 18 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 19 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 20 | What could be more arrogant than to deny it to them ? ’ |
| 21 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 22 | No dog is so obstinate as to starve itself to death . |
| 23 | ‘ Would you be so kind as to excuse me for a moment ? |
| 24 | And getting a permit for a waste-to-energy plant is every bit as difficult as getting one for a landfill in most places . |
| 25 | Other than using it for business purposes , there are no restrictions — except , of course , that you must not overstep your borrowing limit . |
| 26 | Cleo had never really thought about how she might spend the money , other than considering it to be insurance against the unlikely events of Wakelate either casting her off or dying and leaving her penniless . |
| 27 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 28 | My father may leave everything to me , but I frankly would n't know what to do with it other than give it to Jamie . ’ |
| 29 | This reasoned and ridiculous plea had no effect at all on Jem , other than to inflame him to further violence . |
| 30 | One such article , written by the General Secretary , was ordered to be printed and the editor had no option other than to deliver it to the printers . |