Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , it may be the impersonal that is being undervalued by an approach that is effectively denying inanimate objects their autonomy by trying to present them virtually as the organs of God 's body . |
| 2 | The last decades of the century saw the flowering of numerous bizarre but intensely committed religious sects which often reflected disenchantment with both Church and State . |
| 3 | Together they illustrate that , even if it is true that Conservatism harbours ‘ a distrust of the purely intellectual approach in politics ’ , this in itself is an ideological position with important implications in terms of both the theory and practice of Conservatism , and Honderich concludes that ‘ the commodious proposition that Conservatives only have and only favour factual beliefs which have passed the test of time , are empirical and so on , and hence are untheoretical in various senses … needs to be delivered , if necessary by private contractors , to the rubbish heap of history ’ . |
| 4 | So using vascular counts we are able to define a group of patients that do significantly better . |
| 5 | Consequently , the concept of sovereignty was replaced with that of ‘ public service ’ ; the state exists merely to perform certain tasks which are necessary for the preservation and promotion of social solidarity . |
| 6 | Brought to the home of a knight , this girl and boy wept a great deal , spoke in strange syllables and would only eat green beans which , according to Celtic superstition , are the food of the dead . |
| 7 | Even the article ‘ Conductor ’ in the New Grove dictionary of opera is , unfortunately , misleading : for all its caution , it attempts to paint the whole period from 1750 to Napoleon , and in doing so unjustifiably reinforces certain impressions we recall from the powerful pens of the Encyclopedists : |
| 8 | ( Remember that the kind of cooking you do is very much to the point , for if you only cook simple meals you will need far less preparation area than a more ambitious cook — though here again your aspirations may change with experience . ) |
| 9 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 10 | It is part of the art of mothering to be able to let go , when the time comes ; we have all met sturdy adults who are ‘ tied to mother 's apron strings ’ , often in many subtle , insidious little ways . |
| 11 | The copulatory bursa , which embraces the female during copulation , is important in the identification of certain male nematodes and is derived from much expanded caudal alae which are supported by elongated caudal papillae called bursal rays . |
| 12 | In small , nicely made wooden drums there were new potatoes no larger than damsons . |
| 13 | Our friend the kingfisher apparently possesses computational mechanisms which can discover the real position of a fish at varying depths in the water . |
| 14 | He once finished third , but more often he has sacrificed his own chances by slowing down to help British runners who were struggling to complete the course . |
| 15 | Some of these studies are extremely technical , but they have all produced other studies which have direct classroom relevance . |
| 16 | Animals are killed only to avert mystical dangers which cause illness and death . |
| 17 | However , some organisations and companies may wish to build on the flexibility enabled by an entirely unit-based system and so design customised groups which no not meet all of the national criteria but for which a case can be made for special recognition , for example in the implementation of a particular programme of training or career development . |
| 18 | The report said Romanian troops were hunting down and apparently executing anti-government demonstrators who escaped the killings in Timisoara . |
| 19 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 20 | In fairness to the much maligned British Communists it might be added that Lozovsky , the RILU leader chiefly responsible for the discarded policy , had to admit to its failure throughout the world . |
| 21 | Divisions may have been formed for administrative or historical reasons , which do not necessarily produce organizational units which are identical with SBUs . |
| 22 | And so that 's why erm you know we we only use certain contacts who we know are very reliable |
| 23 | It houses long stay elderly patients who will move this year to a new community unit if all goes to plan . |
| 24 | Love had found its proper expression when she became old enough to repeat little verses her governess taught her , mostly in French , or to stumble ludicrously through songs her mother sang . |
| 25 | The trouble with QUILLed games is that because they only recognise two-word inputs there 's a danger a problem could be solved by accident . |
| 26 | It deals with exemption clauses and it replaces and greatly extends certain provisions which were previously in the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 . |
| 27 | Outside the platform and er as I said before , it was like , they only had small trains you know , five coaches was the biggest train they had you know . |
| 28 | Most forms of alternative medicine work harmoniously and synergistically together to produce combined effects which are often greater than the sum of the individual effects attributable to each . |
| 29 | They leave scent messages under trees which then so fascinate other dogs who pass that way . |
| 30 | If the Minister can give us any example from the privatisation programme , in which the Government have been engaged since 1979 , of a Secretary of State coming to the House in order to bring in check private owners who have subsequently done away with the right of the employees of former public companies , I should be extremely interested to hear about it . |