Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main argument for the legitimacy of any authority is that in subjecting himself to it a person is more likely to act successfully for the reasons which apply to him than if he does not subject himself to its authority . |
| 2 | Richard seems to have played an important part in the peace and truce talks , and as he went to and fro between the armies his father may have begun to wonder just what these exchanges meant . |
| 3 | This sense of security , derived from developing a basic trust in the people most closely involved in their upbringing , provides the fundamental outline of the personal blueprints children draw on to guide them successfully through the relationships they form in later life . |
| 4 | Luckily for the bachelors his enthusiasm did n't catch on . |
| 5 | He spoke revealingly about the problems he had had with jurisprudence , bemoaning the fact that it was ambivalent and undefined , concerned primarily with the ambiguity which sustains the anthropologist by revealing the centralities of a system : ‘ it was all grey areas ; no black and white certainties or decisions ; no precedent or case law giving the definitive interpretation ’ . |
| 6 | On first encounter it can sound pedestrian , but there 's always something not quite right about the melodies they produce , and the more curiosity that provokes , the more you 're sucked in . |
| 7 | But the fundamental point for me was that it involved a positive recognition of my identity and mutual recognition of our identities and that made it much easier to form more personal sorts of relationships on various social levels with other people you met naturally through the things you were doing , whether it was political or social or whatever . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure you 've stripped willingly enough for the men who have enjoyed your favours in the past . ’ |
| 9 | So through the days her influence was felt |
| 10 | It was only through the players themselves that we got the news . |
| 11 | So much for the rivers themselves . |
| 12 | This helps the scissors to run smoothly along the linen undercloth of the lace while the upper blade snips swiftly through the threads which need to be cut . |
| 13 | Many agencies have tried to argue that using temporary workers can be cheaper than using permanent staff , because the employer pays only for the hours he needs and because the non-wage labour costs of agency workers are lower . |
| 14 | The sooner Wilson returns , however , the better it will be not only for the teams he plays for but for all of us . |
| 15 | We require also to recruit and motivate the best people and this in turn requires a good reputation , not only for the goods we make and the worthiness of our contribution to society , but also the way in which we do these things , the sort of people we employ and the contributions we make in the area , and whether we are good citizens or not . |
| 16 | . ’ Another woman , repeating with incredulity that such things could happen while the Führer was standing by his soldiers at the Front in the fight against Bolshevism , said blessings would go out from the crucifixes in the schools ‘ not only for the children themselves , but also for our Führer and his soldiers , who are our sons , fathers , and brothers ’ . |
| 17 | Members of these covens are usually ‘ nominal ’ witches who pay only lip-service to the dogmas and are interested in it only for the kicks it provides . |
| 18 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 19 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 20 | Perhaps for the reasons he said . |
| 21 | The unsecured creditors therefore sued Salomon personally for the debts which were owed by the company to them , alleging that the company merely acted as an agent or a ‘ front ’ for Salomon himself . |
| 22 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 23 | But not so for the Magyars who had been so praised in 1848 , ‘ an obscure semibarbarous people … still standing in the half-civilization of the sixteenth century ’ . |
| 24 | However , in common with some previous research ( Sinfield 1968 ; Norris 1978 ; Townsend 1979 ; Walker 1982a ) , the results of the After Redundancy study raised questions about the precise distinctions between economic activity and inactivity and especially about the assumptions which underlie this crude dichotomy , a point I return to later . |
| 25 | When a badger is foraging , especially for the earthworms which it loves , it will stuff its nose into the earth and vegetation and make a noise like a pig rooting . |
| 26 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 27 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 28 | If he drove on regardless of the conditions he could well be convicted . |
| 29 | It is worrying , therefore , that the NIRC in Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper opined : ‘ If they [ the employers ] want to make it absolutely certain that no tribunal will dissent from their dismissing the driver who is convicted of dangerous driving , then they should , in fairness to themselves and the driver , post a notice or otherwise bring it to the attention of all their drivers that any conviction for dangerous driving , regardless of the circumstances which give rise to it , will lead to dismissal . |
| 30 | Some can be so strong that regardless of the consequences they compel action . |