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 | ‘ It must be , ’ she laughed , ‘ if he 's suddenly prepared to run his own errands ! ’ |
| 7 | He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ These assassins are obviously prepared to sacrifice their own lives to kill you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In practice , this means that you would be extremely unwise to attempt your own gas fitting . |
| 23 | The unrelentingness of each succeeding movement , and the thoroughgoing cruelty of former classmates and neighbours only concerned to save their own skins , shapes a nightmare world . |
| 24 | So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ? |
| 25 | In this poem Coleridge is clearly better able to understand his own mind by putting it in such a context , and , as in ‘ This lime tree Bower my Prison ’ such intimate understanding of his surroundings enables him to produce incredibly vivid Wordsworthian description of scene . |
| 26 | 1 What is the background to the story ? where do the people live ? what is their life like ? when did it all happen ? 2 Why is rima so pleased to have his own cassowaries ? 3 What are cassowaries like ? 4 What do you think of the way the people treat cassowaries ? |
| 27 | She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now . |
| 28 | So nice to see you this morning . |
| 29 | Mr Carey added : ‘ You were so keen to have your own way with her that you disregarded the fact that you could have made her pregnant . ’ |
| 30 | Children after the age of 2 are often so keen to prove their own independence and ability that they feel they know much better than their parents and so argue or ignore parents ' normal requests . |