Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
| 2 | Jeff Dujon has tried to take evasive action from a ball that has climbed from just short of a length , but has gloved it . |
| 3 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 4 | Systems of signs that have arisen in spatially separate environments and under doubtlessly independent circumstances are , for the most part , very similar or indeed closely related ; this , then , enables communication without great difficulty between persons making use of gestures . |
| 5 | As capacities evolved , they may have combined with others that have evolved for quite different reasons to create new characteristics that then acquired an evolutionary life of their own . |
| 6 | Some areas , particularly in the North , are very short of staff at all levels and make do with less well-trained people . |
| 7 | A situation in which the creative and artistic endeavours of children are frequently assessed and examined according to externally pre-determined sets of criteria and standards , that ‘ measure the measurable ’ often at the expense of those qualities arts education professes to develop . |
| 8 | She has almost always travelled alone and has lived with very poor and very rich families , participating in the most private aspects of Arab family life . |
| 9 | Although this effort has been piecemeal and has occurred in widely differing contexts , the direction in which it is moving can be identified . |
| 10 | On the whole , however , their ideas concerning the political organization of descent-group society , what they call the ‘ gentile constitution ’ , are surprisingly modern and helpful and seem supported by more recent findings . |
| 11 | Bawdiness has been toned down and feasting reduced to sadly impersonal uniformity . |
| 12 | That was sustainable so long as France faced an unquestioned nuclear threat from the Soviet Union , and needed to respond with only small-scale military operations overseas ( in Chad , for example , or Gabon ) . |
| 13 | The whole process was serviced and kept running by as exceptional a staff of civil servants as I ever worked with in over ten years as a Cabinet minister . |
| 14 | In these the expert gestures and extemporised playing of easily recognised characters in certain stock situations were understood by audiences everywhere no matter what the native language because the gestures were so explicit . |
| 15 | They also have the well-defined approach to semantic processing and have led to theoretically clean and fairly efficient computational representations . |
| 16 | Many schizophrenia sufferers , however , find that they can no longer achieve previous levels of attainment after the onset of the disorder and need to adapt to less challenging work . |
| 17 | In other words ‘ primitive ’ peoples do not simply construct words and meanings in relation to the felt needs of everyday life but classify according to more general intellectual interests and concerns . |
| 18 | Two weeks later Colonel Lane-Fox ( later Pitt-Rivers ) , a pioneer of scientific archaeology , spoke of ‘ the evolution of culture ’ : some kind of Darwinism entered into all kinds of explanations , as tends to happen with highly effective theories which get extended far beyond their sphere and come to function almost as metaphor . |
| 19 | The emphasis on athleticism , power play , sustained long-ball assaults , blitzkrieg , has bred a proliferation of muscular but blunderingly naive defenders who appear to be alarmingly , untidily vulnerable when required to cope with more subtle forms of attack ; show them dribblers , runners with the ball or an incisive exchange of sharp passes , and panic sets in . |