Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have as a matter of course made a point of attending to those particulars which hereto for have been overlooked not only by collecting the birds in their various changes of plumage but by preserving all the principal forms for dissection as well as preparing skeletons of the same … |
| 2 | Reviewing the Salon d'Automne , Allard grouped together the work of Metzinger , Le Fauconnier and Gleizes , and , using one of the paintings shown by Metzinger an example , stated : ‘ there is thus being born in opposition to Impressionism an art which instead of copying natural phenomena , offers to the mind of the spectator , in their pictorial entirety , elements that as a result of synthesis are fundamental and timeless ’ . |
| 3 | These are people who instead of waiting passively to see what life will bring , have decided not to leave their happiness to chance . |
| 4 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 5 | Really , one should buy and read the book itself instead of reading about it . ’ |
| 6 | But I do know that when times were bad , the people in the dale had to use the wool off the backs of the sheep themselves instead of sending it away to the wool merchants of Bradford after shearing . |
| 7 | On the id our gelada like foraging career left instinctual trends which far from favouring altruism , strongly motivated males to sadistic sexual egoism and perhaps correspondingly imprinted on females a fatalistic , passive tendency which Freud was to term ‘ feminine masochism ’ . |
| 8 | Pigs are our chief prey item — half the meat in the human diet , worldwide , is pork , That has to mean that those of us who are n't Jews , Moslems or vegetarians are made up of a large proportion of protein that arrived by way of the animal we most like to sneer at — not to mention mistreat , in the most abominable ways . |
| 9 | These functions may be obtained from those in region I simply by replacing g by ½ , or v by 0 . |