Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is verbal irony when some character comes out with a statement or a choice of words which have a meaning to those in the know , either within the text or outside it , that is significantly different or even contradictory to that which the character may be supposed to have in mind . |
| 2 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 3 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 4 | Students should come not merely to know that such and such is the case , or that this procedure works , but should be able to offer their own account of why it is the case or why it works . |
| 5 | do n't say that a level crossing or where the road narrows , on approached any type of pedestrian crossing or where it would involve driving over an area marked with diagonal stripes to or che chevrons , do not overtake when you do so would force another vehicle to swerve or slow down , if in doubt do not overtake so where 'd you not overtake ? |
| 6 | This gov this government should support an application for all British yards to be given access to the intervention funding or shortly there will be no major ship building facilities at all in the U K , and hopefully no John Ma the i John Major either . |
| 7 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 8 | So of course it can be quite a shock when you discover that your mum or maybe your aunt has Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 9 | So if you start saying there ca n't be any publicity where there 's been alleged malpractice or where there 's controversy er well you 're going to get into in into a ludicrous situation in which the media will never be able to discuss a situation of this sort . |
| 10 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 11 | For the next hour or thereabouts I shall be at the Burgers ’ house in Wood Lane . ’ |
| 12 | After an hour or so we reached a Slovak village with houses in the traditional wood construction with wooden roofs . |
| 13 | After an hour or so we were offered a free drink from the buffet , a new and well intentioned gesture that soon will be seen as an albatross like being asked your height by an undertaker . |
| 14 | After an hour or so her eyes grew heavy and her yawns more frequent , and at last she stopped the tape at a suitable break . |
| 15 | After half an hour or so he was happy that the fault had been corrected — for the time being . |
| 16 | During the next half hour or so he asked his sailing master if he was happy with the speed of the ship . |
| 17 | He seemed to be awake for a long time , I think , you know like you wake up and you do n't know what to do with yourself , I think it was like that , so every quarter of an hour or so he kept me , shouting for a drink he did n't know quite what to do with himself |
| 18 | We pressed on down the Gulf and after an hour or so my radio lad in the back gave me a chit — " The Argosy has been found , return to Bahrain " — and so , led by the squadron commander , John A. MacDonald commanding No 55 at that time , we were led back to Bahrain . |
| 19 | The sun was getting low over the sea and in an hour or so it would dip below the horizon , where there were horizontal bars of dark colour . |
| 20 | For the next half an hour or so I felt very panicky and unready to have this baby . |
| 21 | Well I was n't that nervous , but er I had a go and after an hour or so I got quite confident on me own then . |
| 22 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 23 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
| 24 | For the last quarter of an hour or so his face had been furrowed with the effort of understanding the information with which he had been presented . |
| 25 | For half an hour or so she had Barbara Paulus , ranked 21st to Durie 's 102nd , chasing shadows as she won the first set 6-2 . |
| 26 | The only certainty , she reflected ruefully , soaking in fragrant warm water up to her chin , was that in half an hour or so she 'd have to find the courage to face Roman again , possibly over the breakfast-table . |
| 27 | During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide . |
| 28 | And within an hour or so there can be thousands of toads on the surface of the desert . |
| 29 | In that first hour or so our excitement reached its peak . |
| 30 | However , there will be some circumstances where representations may have to made on behalf of individuals who enjoy income other than that arising from the Church , and who may therefore have a tax liability or indeed who may have tax repayment due to them . |