Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may not be the case in a small house fellowship , or of a small church in a face-to-face village community where everyone knows everybody else . |
| 2 | Overreacting with shock and dismay when the child first comes out with a four-letter word is the best way to ensure he or she uses it again and again . |
| 3 | If necessary , he or she will advise on the detailed layout of the cash books , and suggest that he or she reviews them occasionally to ensure their adequacy . |
| 4 | She either involuntarily submits in this role ( as does the woman on the pages of Penthouse ) or she does it voluntarily , like de Sade 's Justine or ‘ O ’ in the pornographic novel by Pauline Reage , The Story of O . |
| 5 | Boo lives in a town where the people are very religious , but narrow minded and intolerant of those who do not conform to their very rigid code of social behaviour , and where everybody knows everyone else because the same families have lived there for generations . |
| 6 | Then , when it is ridden in the show ring , or it sees something possibly threatening , its anxiety peaks — it promptly stands on its hind legs or pulls its tongue back over the bit . |
| 7 | No man will publicly humiliate a woman because she is ‘ old ’ or he finds her sexually unattractive : no woman will deride a man for his sexual insufficiency or because he is ‘ weak ’ or ‘ wet ’ or a ‘ wimp ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife . |
| 9 | Certainly both will continue with the public work to which they have dedicated themselves but Diana has indicated that she wants something more fulfilling in her personal life . |
| 10 | ‘ You can see that she wants you here . |
| 11 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 12 | Poor child , it 's terrible that she loves me so much . ’ |
| 13 | She bade me tell you that she loves you very dearly , and has never ceased to miss you . ’ |
| 14 | She deceives herself more than she deceives anyone else . |
| 15 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 16 | They are minor , in the sense that one meets them relatively infrequently , but they are also quite interesting because of the linguistic sophistication they reveal in the usage of the ordinary speaker . |
| 17 | It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation . |
| 18 | It 's unlikely that anybody does it too often , since trippers tend to make skiing an all-day outing , but I 've often been on the beach with people planning a ski trip next day . |
| 19 | Marshall 's ( 1984 ) championing of women managers ' distinctive co-operative skills , for example , remains very close to conventional organizational psychology 's idea of these skills , although it assesses them more positively . |
| 20 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 21 | FACING PAGE When taking your dog to the ‘ great outdoors ’ such as here , at the Chiricahua National Monument , Arizona — ensure that it relieves itself well away from footpaths and picnic areas . |
| 22 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 23 | You see , an island like Hodges is so occupied with copra that it produces nothing else . |
| 24 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
| 25 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |
| 26 | Sangenic is so easy and quick to use that it allows you more time to care for your baby . |
| 27 | Philosophers , and especially philosophers of art , who say that visual perception involves something two-dimensional usually go on to say that it involves something else , a judgement whereby we get from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional , the world of solid objects at a distance from the perceiver . |
| 28 | The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities . |
| 29 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 30 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |