Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 2 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |
| 3 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 4 | Third parties have no legal basis for a claim that a treaty merely affects them in some way , or that non-performance or reduced performance has frustrated their own expectations ; nor can they interfere with the rights of other States to enter into such treaties . |
| 5 | And that implies that our learning together engages us in dynamic encounter dynamic dialogue which also releases some of those energies in various areas of life that would otherwise be sealed or indeed , locked ! |
| 6 | The general technique used for stationery decoration is to cover the flowers with a clear adhesive film , which not only protects them from damp or dirt , but also holds them in position . |
| 7 | Even if your interest only takes you on regular tours of the local antique or junk shops , it will give you some stimulation . |
| 8 | Peter not only hears it on this occasion but several times in the future , as the book of Acts shows . |
| 9 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 10 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 11 | The micro , which is itself able to display rich patterns of behaviour , perhaps presents us with these opportunities for the first time . |
| 12 | Like , all their films came , like Alex 's film of er Spain empties the camera basically puts it in this pile they keep in a drawer somewhere of films , okay ? |
| 13 | By contrast Frances Spalding 's final chapter , ‘ The Modern Face ’ , is surprisingly tentative for such an experienced writer : she obviously contemplates deserting the more endangered of Bloomsbury species the rank amateur as opposed to the merely amateurish but in the end mounts a token defence , and so damns them with faint art history . |
| 14 | The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children . |
| 15 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 16 | The man who persistently questions you about after-sales service . |
| 17 | They need to be educated properly , and society desperately needs them as educated members . |
| 18 | She is pleased by the attention and the critical acclaim which already ranks her alongside one of the movie greats . |
| 19 | Sometimes the author 's identity is given away by some small detail reflecting a habit of expression or thought , and this seems to confirm that each writer has a linguistic " thumbprint " an individual combination of linguistic habits which somehow betrays him in all that he writes . |
| 20 | The way he went away hurts me to this day . |
| 21 | And Prozac did the trick for me , erm it wo n't work for everybody , it 's not a happiness pill , it just restores you to some sort of normality . |
| 22 | I think that just puts it into bloody perspective |
| 23 | Instead of the negation of all individuality , we are offered a parable of a single individual who , in his heroic struggle , " takes the whole Dionysiac world on his back and thus relieves us of that burden " . |
| 24 | it just saves it like that |
| 25 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 26 | Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at . |
| 27 | The ability to make long-range plans is at a premium in early middle game , and the machine 's low level of ability in this department usually gets it into terrible trouble . |
| 28 | This suspension can absorb a bump so quickly that the driver hardly senses it , yet it still keeps him in perfect control of the car . |
| 29 | There are so many to admire … the young river , rushing headlong over the Linn of Dee … salmon leaping up the Falls of Feugh … the austere beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery always surrounds you in this gloriously unspoilt land . |
| 30 | ‘ She usually lets me in these days . ’ |