Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish . |
| 2 | This will get you into a playable but ultimately limited game . |
| 3 | Such mothers may have created an oral-maternal fixation in their children by their early and traumatic weaning of them , but would also have maintained them in a passive and otherwise dependent state , not because of their passive maternal solicitude , but because of their aggressive , assertive masculinity which caused them to dominate their children rather as a father might . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Ultimately , however , it can only be through increased education that consumers can come to understand the choices available to them in a complex and ever changing market place and be able to exercise careful and considered consumption . |
| 6 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 7 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 8 | His curriculum vitae notes that his work ‘ keenly combines his observation and experiences of the world around him with a sharp and often cruel sense of humour ’ . |
| 9 | He eyed her with a suspicious but quite unabashed smile . |
| 10 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 11 | They lose their often gaudy plumage in early summer after nesting is complete , exchanging it for a drab and less conspicuous dress for the summer and autumn . |
| 12 | Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd , London has expanded the retail banking elements of its flagship wholesale banking and treasury product , Equation , and released it as a separate but fully integrated module , Retail Advantage : like Equation , Retail Advantage is a client-server-based package , but has enhanced facilities for producing customer profitability reports , on-screen or in report form , for quality management purposes ; it incorporates a real-time automatic teller machine gateway to provide on-line validation and updates of such transactions as cash withdrawals , and cheque book requests ; it includes an updated version of Kapiti 's front-end office automation ‘ cashier system ’ , which undertakes point of service validation , and includes a transaction definition toolkit for up-dating such items as commission or exchange rates ; it has a fund management capability , which can map onto clearing rules worldwide ; and it has multi-lingual capabilities , such as being able to generate multi-lingual customer reports ; the company gave no prices for it . |
| 13 | In 1993 , the year that brings an open market to Europe , the European nations seem to take a similar view of Britain , regarding it as a strange and ultimately negligible country . |
| 14 | Edward of course was unaware of its connotations and encouraged it as a handsome and relatively uncommon plant . |
| 15 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 16 | Thankfully there 's always Dave Hemingway 's grin , Brian Corrigan 's Grogan-esque voice and Heaton 's foppish dancing to cheer us up and turn it into a gorgeous and lurvely night . |
| 17 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 18 | If this was a challenge the American film industry reacted to it in a determined and ultimately triumphant way . |
| 19 | At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market . |
| 20 | Independence of course demands economic means : and this brings us to a last and equally basic issue . |