Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [vb base] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty |
| 2 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 3 | ‘ Please love , be a good boy , just wipe Annie 's hands for her on that flannel and take her to watch telly , will you ? |
| 4 | True , the report 's authors criticise the EC 's trigger-happy use of anti-dumping rules and say there remains a risk that the Community will drift into a European trade zone built around special agreements with the EFTA countries and Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | I mean , that 's the kind of thing one often hears on this programme , is it wishful thinking or d' you think we could actually achieve it ? |
| 6 | They are experiencing what women have always known — that the life-sustaining relationships that enable us to grit our teeth and pick our way through the mess made by men , to endure and to survive , are those we share with other women : our mothers , our sisters , our neighbours and friends . |
| 7 | Do you want that piece or do you want me to cut you another ? |
| 8 | I just hope we get the right result and have something to celebrate and another game to look forward too . |
| 9 | The course is designed to broaden your understanding of current changes in the provision of vocational and educational training , to link this theoretical understanding to your professional practice and enable you to produce substantial pieces of work through projects , reports and a dissertation . |
| 10 | Just as Marx criticised the suggestion that we could found a theory on universal human needs , he now rejects the idea that we can introduce an independently defined notion of economic practice and use it to explain other aspects of society . |
| 11 | Their new LP ( their best since their first , Psychocandy ) is good for different reasons : because it has the sort of rumbling guitars and invigorating , climbing , bittersweet songs that make you jump out of bed and open up the curtains in the morning . |
| 12 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 13 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 14 | I got out to the shops this afternoon and have you noticed they 're into Christmas already ? |
| 15 | It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’ |
| 16 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 17 | got a funny smell that smoke you know |
| 18 | The ability to define some text and have it converted to curves , which can then be edited to distort the shapes of letters , for instance , gives even the novice user the chance to adopt a style similar to that used by Ferrari , where the initial ‘ F ’ is elongated . |
| 19 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 20 | However , it is so much woven into the fabric of multimedia , we will not focus on interactivity in itself in this study but allow it to feature implicitly throughout our assessment of multimedia design , technology and application . |
| 21 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 22 | 1 Read more about the surgical procedures mentioned in this chapter and ensure you understand them before reading on . |
| 23 | Only one way to grab his interest — give him a Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown at the outset of our allotted five-minute interview and hope we have the chance to exchange more than names . |
| 24 | So it 's really about keeping his spirit alive and making sure people get a chance to hear this album and see it performed live . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , we do not have the basis for studies in the English used in most English-speaking countries nor do we have the basis for comparative studies . |
| 26 | Some idea of your particular model 's handling characteristics can be gleaned from doing steep stall turns , but eventually you will have to try a proper loop and see what happens . |
| 27 | But you do not call an ecumenical Council and keep it going for four years at vast expense in order principally to repeat what is already well known to be the teaching of the Church . |
| 28 | Boulders flung against the cliff by the waves are much more likely to knock off projecting corners and become themselves rounded in the process than to dislodge rock masses . |
| 29 | For the daily bump and grind We grease the |
| 30 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |