Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
| 2 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 3 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 4 | Zimbabwe 's elevation has about it a pronounced aroma of political engineering . |
| 5 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 6 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 7 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
| 8 | It has behind it a powerful cluster of motivating forces , accompanied by a theory of motivation which , however inadequate , works sufficiently to keep the system going . |
| 9 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 10 | This particular version contains within it a cooling device of unsurpassed elegance . |
| 11 | The human being has within it the physical and mental capacity to do this , and must accept that there is no alternative way for it to be done . |
| 12 | But that law has upon it a rich gloss of practice , realism , and political sophistication which , I suggest , would preclude a repeat of events such as those which occurred in 1963 . |
| 13 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 14 | Yet this ‘ philanthropy ’ has in it a considerable element of Minchampstead self interest . |
| 15 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 16 | Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ? |
| 17 | He gets very angry with him , and shouts at him a great deal . |
| 18 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 19 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 20 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 21 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 22 | I guess an inexperienced parent just does n't know what to do with these intruders in the nest , and disposes of them the only way it can . |
| 23 | Unemployment steals from them the economic conditions which supported the new wave of feminism in the sixties and early seventies , but the welfare state , the provision of child benefit , minimal as it is , and supplementary benefit , mean they can survive in the absence of jobs and wages of their own . |
| 24 | Co-star Madeleine Stowe is also convincing as the formidable , spirited Cora Munro , falling for the rugged , beef-cake charms of Hawkeye who instils in her a joyous understanding of the wide open spaces and star spangled skies . |
| 25 | He looks up , the script said , and sees above him the huge , luminous eyes of a monster . |
| 26 | Although the younger woman has been taken to be a likeness of his sister Wil by many biographers , misled by an ambiguous comment of Vincent 's , Tralbaut sees in it a close resemblance to Kee . |
| 27 | It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an " intellectual " , and a superior person generally . " |
| 28 | Erm , my fear of this report is that we are actually erm , it shows to me a certain level of complacency . |
| 29 | This fascinating display holds , and reveals to you the vital spirit which eventually triumphed in 1945 . |
| 30 | It hangs over me the whole time . |