Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't seem to take offence at my lack of enthusiasm for the system which had made religion into something you did in your home or in private or at its most social — in the privacy of a cubicle in Major TOM . |
| 2 | Roberta and Faye were asleep or at their women 's place . |
| 3 | Bukharin argued , moreover , that primitive accumulation belongs to the prehistory of capitalism and therefore does not belong to a consideration of its history proper nor of its modern functioning . |
| 4 | So , I abandoned French and in its place took up Hungarian studies . |
| 5 | In order to do this , we need to challenge many popular perceptions of old age and ageing and of their impact upon society as a whole . |
| 6 | It is historical and of our world . |
| 7 | One of the refreshing aspects of Torquay was bumping into first timers , for whom everything was interesting and for whom rubbing shoulders with the likes of Alan Giles , Bing Taylor , Trevor Glover , Paula Kahn , Peter Winslow , Richard Charkin , Kip Bertram , Frank Brazier et al was a bit of a thrill . |
| 8 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 9 | The resulting parchment is both very strong and very light and with it , paper wasps can build very big nests indeed . |
| 10 | He 's very successful , very funny and on his way to the top . ’ |
| 11 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 12 | Now I had a companion to share everything with , someone I knew of old and with whom there were no constraints , and seven years ' news to keep the conversation flowing . |
| 13 | ‘ When I was asked to speak on this happy occasion , my mind went back to when I was seven years old and with my twin brother and others , we were being prepared for first Holy Communion . |
| 14 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 15 | It was the best thing ever to be free and by herself again . |
| 16 | Mohammed is Lebanese and in his mid 40s . |
| 17 | Understood thus it avoids the questions ( and therefore the problems ) , which Leonard nowhere addresses : such as the historicity , canonicity and the like of the world-faiths — to his mind a species of academic involvement with which he was not interested and of which he was even disdainful . |
| 18 | It does n't bear much repetition , but it 's clever , exciting and in its highly idiosyncratic way the perfect palate-stimulator . |
| 19 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 20 | Their daughter Mary was born at Linlithgow , of which her father was also fond and to which he fled after defeat by the English at Solway Moss , before going on to Falkland in the wooded heartland of Fife . |
| 21 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |
| 22 | In what ways was this landscape unpleasant and in what ways may people get greater pleasure from it now ? |
| 23 | This project will study the policy positions on global environmental change taken by three Latin American governments ( Brazil , Colombia and Costa Rica ) at UNCED and after it ; monitor the impact on public opinion of the UNCED process itself , as expressed through magazine and news stories ; and via interviews , evaluate the input of industrial , military , agricultural , trade union and voluntary organisations to the process of policy formation , in these three countries . |
| 24 | Baldwin 's reply was not very different from words lie had used to the July deputation , but this time of course lie was speaking in public and with his words immediately available for all to refer to : |
| 25 | It is no accident that the rise of science and technology and subsequently industrialisation and the process of wealth creation followed the acceptance of an explicitly Biblical view of the world in which manual work was not considered contemptible and in which man was delegated the task of managing the world 's resources for his benefit . |
| 26 | At first sight it is unremarkable ; a simple Formica-clad cube , but as one draws closer it can be seen that the top face is transparent and through it one can view the tracks in the cloud chamber — the long thin lines due to cosmic rays and the short stubby ones due to alpha particles . |
| 27 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 28 | We must be able to provide a level of transparency that shields users and the programmers from not only where the data is stored but in which relational database management system . |
| 29 | Q I am having a real problem with nitrates , not only in my aquarium which is fish-only but in my tapwater as well . |
| 30 | Not to a Jewish God , not to a Christian one , not in Hebrew or English but in his native Polish , and to whatever power it was that made the stars shine , and the clouds drift , a lone wolf howl and an eagle fly free over wild country . |