Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exchange has roused the analyst to contributions that are firmer and more energy-consuming than those he generally vouchsafes : ‘ it 's not the past but what we make of the past that shapes our future and present . ’ |
| 2 | And it will be a priority of the AEA Board to ensure that any AEA employees who do move into the private sector do so on terms that are no less favourable than those they currently enjoy . |
| 3 | If it is dry and unyielding we automatically chew it until it becomes comfortable to swallow . |
| 4 | Attended a luncheon … one of the most magnificent and costly I ever attended . ’ |
| 5 | While there do seem to be systematic differences between extractive industries like petroleum and metal ore mining , and manufacturing industries like consumer goods , the general conclusion is that where the TNCs are patient and persistent they usually at least recover the value of their seized assets . |
| 6 | At this stage we need not worry too much whether the material is glassy or crystalline and all we really need to know about the solid is the Young 's modulus and the surface energy . |
| 7 | This testing of bassanio , her own husband who she is meant to love and trust , tells us how cunning , powerful and suspicious she really is . |
| 8 | Fine , attribute it to your aftershave for all I care , as long as you recognize that opportunities as encouraging as those you now face do n't crop up every day . |
| 9 | I think it should be in consultation with the county supplies officer , because I think it is important that that he also has ownership of that letter which goes to the fellow p our fellow members at resource . |
| 10 | Rosa looked at the weapon piercing the heart of the Mother of God , around which her finely carved wooden hands , so lithe and brown they too might one day reach out and clasp hers , fluttered as if poised either to grasp it and draw it from her or plunge it in deeper . |
| 11 | If they are frail or disabled and housebound they often become members of the tea-toast-and-tinned-soup brigade , and develop various kinds of vitamin-deficiency diseases . |
| 12 | On the one hand it can be used simply to say that whilst theory is essential and desirable it nevertheless depends for its validity on observation ( of an empirical kind ) . |
| 13 | The scene was so vivid and lifelike you almost expected the bear to move or the tree to bend . |
| 14 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 15 | Holists , according to Miller , aim to show why social phenomena would be as they are even if particular individuals possessed properties other than those they actually have . |
| 16 | Silent and solitary he often was , as Eckert knew from the evidence of Margaret Townsend , Thomas 's aunt , but he was eager at all times to share his country knowledge with young people . |
| 17 | All the farmers think their cattle are special but all I ever see is money . |