Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But the total collapse or disappearance of one was never seen as an appropriate goal of foreign policy . |
| 2 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 3 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 4 | Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value |
| 5 | But we should understand those who face such oppression and recognise that , in framing legislation , we should not introduce the remotest chance of anyone being wrongly returned . |
| 6 | Conscious analysis of anything is only scorned by me if it 's the best you can do ! |
| 7 | The hell of making a film out of anything was lovingly rehearsed in Ready When You Are , Mr McGill , a play by Jack Rosenthal , first shown in 1976 and repeated on Saturday in Channel 4 's TV Heaven slot . |
| 8 | Because I did n't want , because I did n't want people laughing at me like everyone 's here laughing at you . |
| 9 | A scientist who had the temerity to ask at Philadelphia for one was severely reproved . |
| 10 | Portents in plenty are also reported — " a tempest dripping fire " ( St Elmo 's fire ? ) , a lion walking sulkily through the city , the bird of night hooting and shrieking at noon-day and of course the soothsayer 's warning to " Beware the Ides of March " . |
| 11 | This assumption is hardly ever challenged ; yet it is clearly the case that many scientists are as incompetent in the humanities as many humanities graduates tend to be in the sciences ; it is perhaps a mark of the enormous divide we have made between the two areas that ability in one is often considered to preclude ability in the other . |
| 12 | Entry and exit is easier in an Apache than many other light twins and inside one is immediately struck by an impression of space . |
| 13 | Joshua wondered whether the sight , uninvited , of so tweedy a magistrate at one 's rarely opened front door was such as to give confidence to the rural labouring classes . |
| 14 | Individuals ' evaluations of how good they are at something are generally made in relation to how good others are at the same thing . |