Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort , finding ourselves watching comedy , beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair . |
| 2 | Leibniz was quite right , of course , to reject the view that a sufficient criterion of numerical identity of things can be defined in terms of the conditions under which we distinguish between their respective positions in space , but he himself had no better explanation to offer . |
| 3 | I mean between your two machines . |
| 4 | She would be sure to make such a song and dance about her aching feet that she would get right to the head of the queue for the room-key — well , apart from Mrs Roscoe , naturally ! ’ |
| 5 | Berenice has high blood-pressure ; she has to remain in hospital because of stress , or she will miscarry , and if that happens I fear for her mental health . ’ |
| 6 | They fear for their own livelihoods if it is closed . |
| 7 | We think he is so distressed that we fear for his own safety and are now very concerned for him . |
| 8 | Initially at least , most of us find our thinking about Japan grounded in the differences we perceive between our own society and Asia 's New Giant . |
| 9 | Yet doubts remain about its heavy lending to property developers and over-borrowed companies . |
| 10 | A pelagic habit and a delicate , gelatinous body account for their poor fossil record . |
| 11 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 12 | The changes in the ways in which these national economies are regulated account for their historical development . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the ambiguities remain and contribute to the uncertainty with which the CMHT members go about and account for their own work . |
| 14 | The engineers at SUNY are trying to convince the city 's department of transportation to take seismic loading into account for its new bridges . |
| 15 | Apart from conjunctions and disjuncts which we have decided not to take into account for our current purposes , this is the only instance in which the theme of the clause is not the element that occurs in initial position . |
| 16 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 17 | He must think she was babbling like a schoolgirl , but there was nothing even remotely schoolgirlish about her growing awareness of this man . |
| 18 | I peer through its little ambush at the scene below . |
| 19 | At midday we made our way to Plover Hide for our promised reward : an afternoon 's bird watching . |
| 20 | Multiple residential schemes work well only when they involve a total plan for the grounds and setting of a house , and provide for their continued upkeep . |
| 21 | Though he admits he could do with the cash from ticket receipts ( £2.4m at the Science Museum in 1989 , £1.9m at the Natural History ) , Sir David argues that the British Museum ‘ should be freely available to everyone — to stretch minds , stimulate their curiosity and provide for their academic needs . ’ |
| 22 | He also accuses Munroists of having a ‘ blinkered attitude ’ to their surroundings as they head for their chosen objective . |
| 23 | And I long for your gentle touch , |
| 24 | I long for his unwashed eyes . |
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| 30 | His sorry tale is one long whinge about his own suffering — his lack of sex , his loneliness , his sleeplessness . |