Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 2 | They are due to go before the Mersey Ferries board in two weeks . |
| 3 | No , it was n't transport related , I knew that my , my group , because everybody was placed in a certain group by age and , er I knew that I was due to go and I thought oh well this is hanging around you sort of wanted to get on with it . |
| 4 | I have half a mind to defy their demands of space and economy , and to sleep on until awakened by the next pale arrival herself , expectant to abort and puzzled at my slumbering presence . |
| 5 | He was quite right to claim that each of the four cells at the end of the cleavage would form a normal larva . |
| 6 | I think I am right to claim that I was the first to adopt this plan vs Rudi Douven at Charlton in 1983 . |
| 7 | Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 8 | Salvidge was right to claim that Leith had overstepped the mark and that he had no mandate for his action , but it is clear that he rather than Salvidge really represented the views of the National Union . |
| 9 | I fear that the Secretary of State was not right to claim that the Bill is universally welcomed . |
| 10 | It would be possible to acknowledge that this type of emotional layer exists in human beings , and that it finds expression in the brutality men are capable of inflicting on one another . |
| 11 | As I said earlier , I was grateful to go and work in Britain and I also was grateful for all the great writers in English . |
| 12 | Is he er is he due to retire or |
| 13 | It would be absurd to claim that this day is already near . |
| 14 | The old and lonely are very vulnerable , and if you have sounded detached , preoccupied , or hurried during the conversation they can easily feel hurt and rejected ; and that hurt can be like an emotional graze that will remain painful until you are able to see them again and heal it . |
| 15 | He was surely right to caution that the declaration of a right by a court is perhaps best viewed as the beginning of a political process in which power relationships loom large and immediate . |
| 16 | Tomorrow it would be possible to drive and drive she would , back to Palma and the apartment . |
| 17 | Then he told Kāli to go and graze the cows , and Bi ā to tend the sheep . |
| 18 | It is not possible to arrange that the second derivatives as well as the first derivatives of the coefficients all simultaneously vanish , because there are insufficient free variables . |
| 19 | By choosing t suitably it is possible to arrange that t and τ are equal at some large distance R. This choice is . |
| 20 | Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that . |
| 21 | ‘ How refreshing to see that you believe in fostering good relations between management and staff , ’ he drawled lazily . |
| 22 | It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could |
| 23 | Calculations make it possible to compare and contrast molecular configuration or perturbations with experimental results and ‘ at times ’ can expose them as possibly accurate or inaccurate . |
| 24 | For instance , it is possible to contend that the nouveau roman may be more accurately described as modernist or late modernist when compared with the apparently more subversive avant-garde experimentalism of the Tel Quel group , whose claim to be the natural successors of the revolution inaugurated by Finnegans Wake would be difficult to refute . |
| 25 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 26 | That would be awful to go cos he 's , he 's so passionate about it . |
| 27 | It was not possible to resell or rebottle hot whiskies . |
| 28 | I will certainly consider the points that the hon. Gentleman made when I read Hansard and consider the ways in which it may be possible to dilute or circumvent the effect of independent arbitration in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggested . |
| 29 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 30 | He might concede that it is indeed absurd to pretend that in asserting an existential proposition we are in effect talking about all the things in the world . |