Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 2 | But for one zany week in March , the place sheds its stay-at-home Cinderella rags , paints its face and gets itself up in motley as Clown Town . |
| 3 | Although the trends up to 1971 provided support for Marx 's view on the likely fate of the petty bourgeoisie , the 1980s saw a reversal of previous trends . |
| 4 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 5 | Well we 've got twenty five minutes at present shall we can you just wipe around a couple of other things and then we 'll come back to that if time remains ? |
| 6 | But Valli then dropped back to third when club secretary and veteran runner Brian took over on the penultimate third stage . |
| 7 | so erm , in , in some sense , it is with the Secretary of State 's consent , erm , the land was conveyed back at less than market value as it stood , but erm , er , and I guess there are a variety of views on that particular er , aspect of the situation . |