Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is true whether the story is an epic with a cast of thousands or nothing more elaborate than a simple family situation . |
| 2 | It has the reputation of a Dutch Bonn , a provincial place of exile for civil servants , where nothing more exciting than Dutch politics ever happens . |
| 3 | A keen sportsman , he was one of the mainstays of St. Martin 's Cricket Club in the Salisbury and District League where his really fast bowling was feared by opponents . |
| 4 | Just as cockfighting allows a world where women are rendered invisible , so Geertz 's writing creates a text where his actually present wife is ignored as a non-person . |
| 5 | One of 11 children , he was born on a Mississippi farm where his deeply religious father disapproved of the blues . |
| 6 | But his beat is often sluggish and lifeless , and when he does move things along he is apt to produce a coarse effect with his punched-out accents ( listen for example to ‘ Cease to beauty ’ or ‘ The flocks shall leave the mountains ’ ) or his aggressively pushy rhythms ( as in ‘ Happy we ’ or ‘ Love sounds th ’ alarm ’ ) . |
| 7 | It is highly unlikely that TBC personnel would have agreed to such criteria for news without heavy pressure from the Minister or someone else prominent in the Government . |
| 8 | Blocking your feelings will only serve to restrict the way to talk with a partner or someone else important to you . |
| 9 | Occasionally , Yggdrasil toyed with the idea of junking something or someone totally forgettable — Juliana of Norwich , say , or the Bee Gees ' Collected Lyrics or the parish records of Old Sarum but there was always room . |
| 10 | Whether these should be equated with his ‘ heirs ’ , who held land worth £4. 6s. 8d. in Elesborough , his widow , who lived at Whaddon and was a prominent landowner , or someone quite different , is not clear . |
| 11 | Either a right heavy , a real bully , or someone very crooked . |
| 12 | White Stilton is a very young , immature Stilton and does not compare to the traditional blue variety , although I like it in salads and for cooking , where its slightly sharp flavour is penetrating . |
| 13 | This provides the reason why it was once extensively cultivated in the Aube , where its more southerly location and lack of limestone subsoil sometimes renders wines lacking the desirably high degree of acidity required for classic Champagnes . |
| 14 | Laugh she did , at any rate , and those convulsive movements succeeded where her more calculated efforts had failed . |
| 15 | However , although it is possible to use statements opening ‘ I believe that … ’ to make a psychological report , that is not their only or their most usual use . |
| 16 | A less drastic course than either ( or their more common hybrid form ) and one preferred in certain contexts in many cultures , is to blame the injury sustained on a puckish nature-spirit or demon . |
| 17 | Her winning smile or her pretty blonde hair ? |
| 18 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 19 | Paradoxically , families are often more concerned by the behaviour of a primary sufferer who , unbeknown to them , is desperately trying to withdraw from drugs than they are by his or her apparently normal behaviour when he or she is continuing regular use . |
| 20 | When did you last tell your partner that you find him or her very attractive ? |
| 21 | The risk of confronting the disease may be the possible death of the sufferer ; the risk of not doing so may be his or her almost certain death from the progression of the disease . |
| 22 | The local variation may not represent information at all for , as Figure 5. 14 clearly shows , some high-frequency noise in the form of horizontal scan line patterns may be present on an image , distracting the user and rendering him or her less capable of recognizing underlying trends . |
| 23 | Reform ( or ‘ rehabilitation ’ ) is the idea that punishment can reduce the incidence of crime by taking a form which will improve the individual offender 's character or behaviour and make him or her less likely to re-offend in future . |
| 24 | He argues that the imbalance acts to increase the person 's risk of schizophrenia by making him or her more susceptible to social influences ( Cutting , 1985 , p. 391 ) . |
| 25 | On the other hand , if the media ask for someone to take part , try to make him or her as interesting as possible — for the programme not to themselves ! |
| 26 | They can not be permitted to isolate their child and view him or her as different from other blacks ; rather they must perceive their child to be an extension of other black people . |
| 27 | The weather was foul and despite all attempts by the owner to make the property look nice and homely she could n't quite hide the rainwater dripping through ceilings , black mould on walls with associated smells , or its generally poor condition . |
| 28 | His identification with Christ , whom he called ‘ the greatest of all artists ’ , is here , in defeat , at its most sublime or its most ridiculous , according to one 's point of view . |
| 29 | 17.2.3 is signed by the party concerned or its duly authorised representative |
| 30 | The next step would be to offer thanks when there is reason to believe that the ‘ god ’ , or its more mundane forerunner had fulfilled the expectations of the supplicant . |