Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose it 's a little absurd to keep them all now . ’ |
| 2 | In the current anti-tycoon climate , there might be those who think it a little tactless to rob your own company 's pension fund to help you take over Bob Maxwell 's newspapers . |
| 3 | There is some merit in this of course , because there are several isomers of pentane and higher hydrocarbons , and it is a little confusing to call them all isopentane , isohexane etc . |
| 4 | That is , she is exempt from supervision but not wholly free to choose her own activities . |
| 5 | It is extremely pleasant to have your own car , and an excellent way of finding your own mile of empty beach . |
| 6 | ‘ If some people think that I live in a void , as you put it , ’ said the poet on television , ‘ perhaps that tells us more about them than about me . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not saying there 's more culture in our family and that Eric plays football as well so that makes us more interesting , I 'm just saying he expresses himself in one way and also in another and we do n't want to be criticised for that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It must be , ’ she laughed , ‘ if he 's suddenly prepared to run his own errands ! ’ |
| 9 | He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment . |
| 10 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 11 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 12 | I 've no idea about the mood , I 've no idea what people will think of er maybe large numbers Well one journalist said to me in Blackpool and perhaps this says it all , he said , Michael , you 're the only really popular person here this week . |
| 13 | But perhaps this tells us more about Western society than about human nature . |
| 14 | ‘ These assassins are obviously prepared to sacrifice their own lives to kill you . |
| 15 | Obviously this contained its own contradictions ; the patriotism of the football hooligan had to be tempered by the authority of the law . |
| 16 | It is not only easier to remember everything this way but it can actually be more fun too . |
| 17 | I ATTENDED four of the evening sessions of this year 's Great British Beer Festival and had a great time — my thanks to all those who worked so hard to make it such a success . |
| 18 | As Captain of Stoddard Golf Club , I would like to thank all the members of the committee who have worked so hard to make it such a memorable year . |
| 19 | Size was also associated with central training involvement : small libraries , who are less likely to have their own training officers , were also less likely to note any central staff taking responsibility for staff training ( see Table 23 ) . |
| 20 | The second clause , that if a knows that p then a believes that p ( we can read this as , seems minimal , and the third , that if a knows that p then his belief that p is justified , is there in order to prevent any lucky guess from counting as knowledge if the guesser is sufficiently confident to believe his own guess . |
| 21 | Owers ’ place on the right side of midfield has been occupied recently by David Rush , Peter Davenport and Brian Mooney , who naturally all have their own Cup final aspirations . |
| 22 | At the other extreme of the fishes ' habitat , in the depths of the ocean , around 750 metres and below , there is no light by which fish can see one another 's signals , so many create their own . |
| 23 | painting the kitchen once and I got into so much trouble it took him so long to rub it all off and start again , he made me promise I 'd never touch a paint brush again but he I mean , he would definitely be able to tell you what paint he used and |
| 24 | Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole . |
| 25 | It has appeared to me , through all the seclusion of my life & the narrow experience it admitted of , that in nothing , men — & women too ! — were so apt to mistake their own feelings , as in this one thing . |
| 26 | It has been suggested further that corporate ambitions extend beyond influencing the detail of regulation , with Reagan for instance claiming that ‘ … corporations are not only much concerned to protect their own immediate legislative interests , but are reaching out in an attempt to create a business-oriented political and social framework within which all public decision-making would be constrained . |
| 27 | I find that people at that level of education are so busy chasing their own tail with the enormous amount of work that comes their way … that the planning for a secondee would come at the bottom of the heap . |
| 28 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 29 | A further claim for , inter alia , unlawful means conspiracy was brought against Company B but it was not alleged that the predominant purpose of the conspiracy was to injure the plaintiffs since the defendants were obviously concerned to protect their own position . |
| 30 | In practice , this means that you would be extremely unwise to attempt your own gas fitting . |