Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is true that public goods and services are oversupplied when benefits are concentrated and costs ( revenues ) dispersed , should they not by the same argument be undersupplied when benefits are dispersed but costs concentrated , or when both costs and benefits are dispersed ( Goodin 1982 ) ? |
| 2 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 3 | Even if I could get down to the required , modest depth , what could I possibly about the swamp ? |
| 4 | You ca I ca n't hel I 'd I right from the day he walked in I did n't like him . |
| 5 | Could it not at the least be studied by physiologists as n model for memory ? |
| 6 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 7 | ‘ But ’ , as Mrs Napier George Sturt described in her Life of Charles Stun , ‘ these paintings had been the delight of Sturt 's leisure ; he was devoted to ornithology , and had collected the rarer specimens at great trouble and risk , and at no price would he part with the folio . ’ |
| 8 | Punishments , however , must not exceed the minimum that is necessary to deter — we would not , Beccaria again argues , will it otherwise in the social contract . |
| 9 | ‘ That way , my young friend wo n't be turned into a zombi , and neither will anyone else for the moment . ’ |
| 10 | But is such a structure of opposing factors really an objective property of poetry , and can we therefore as a matter of principle allow our interpretation and evaluation to be guided by it ? |
| 11 | Dressing can he hard for a resident with stiff or arthritic fingers , or whose limbs do not move easily into clothing . |
| 12 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |