Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From our point of view we 're not in the position and it would be totally wrong of us actually to try in public to deal with those or to come to a specific conclusion about any particular proposal . |
| 2 | Such a reaction is closely analogous to one frequently observed among baboons and other primates . |
| 3 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
| 4 | Conflict over designation is symptomatic of something already referred to in this chapter — the transformation of the city from a locale of production to one of consumption-reproduction . |
| 5 | In these languages , the fourth person refers to ‘ a person or thing distinct from one already referred to by a third person form ’ . |
| 6 | The law , similar to one already introduced in Estonia , has angered many thousands of Russians who have moved into the republic in recent years . |
| 7 | Recently my husband , despairing of me ever emerging from my room and cooking his dinner , offered to make some baked beans on toast . |
| 8 | She had always sworn that her private life would take second place to her career until she had established herself , that she would never become involved with anyone remotely connected with racing , and fortunately temptation had rarely come her way . |
| 9 | I 'm stuck for something else to do at this minute , so I might as well listen . ’ |
| 10 | He was at the conference , and a lot of the book , if you read the book , is concerned with what actually happened at the conference , and basically , the basic problem with the , the book tries to look at , and this is where we , we get back to question of the childhood days . |
| 11 | I would n't have thought her class-conscience parents would be very happy with her openly living with a man . ’ |
| 12 | A Highland pony could carry the average six foot man easily , but he would still look long-legged on him even allowing for these ponies ’ generous girths . ’ |
| 13 | The first field that was available to me certainly fitted into the category of ‘ no known site ’ . |
| 14 | It 's a full time commitment er t and you if you are very if if you are er like say it 's so all the time , it 's difficult for her then to cease to be that , to be somebody else . |
| 15 | As a result , we would no longer be able to use the concepts of material things in the way we normally use them and the question whether something observed on one occasion is identical with something else observed on a different occasion would not even arise . |
| 16 | Astron also carries a Russian X-ray detector , identical to one now flying on the manned Salyut 7 space station . |
| 17 | All the resentments which were latent in him now fused in an outright rejection of the system which had brought the country to its present state . |
| 18 | If you become aware of what really matters in your |
| 19 | It is not a question of being frightened of the dark ( although it can be pretty spooky on an out-of-the-way water ) , it is because I enjoy good company and a long night becomes more enjoyable with someone there to chat with ; to share the pleasure of catching big fish , or the lesser pleasure of blanking . |