Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time is not right for us seriously to consider the proposition . |
| 2 | Similarly , it is not possible for him either to give a hard-and-fast definition of Truth . |
| 3 | The personal representative may suffer because it may not be possible for him fully to wind up the estate and to obtain a discharge from his fiduciary responsibilities . |
| 4 | Would it be possible for them also to prune this tree hard back so the light can be seen . |
| 5 | Gettier argued that they show the tripartite account to be insufficient ; it is possible for someone not to know even when all the three clauses are satisfied . |
| 6 | Now , if the Liaison Office had got the same number from Maxim , then the embassy gossip vine had to be more security-minded than she believed possible for it not to come to one conclusion . |
| 7 | The Radio 5 commentators were right about him not jumping for the ball — he did n't seem interested . |
| 8 | What matters is the role Shakespeare plays in it , a role at once central and expendable — and , in some obscure way , not just expendable but exchangeable for what really matters : the writing that more directly serves power [ Greenblatt having pointed out how Stanley 's notebook proved invaluable in establishing the Belgian Congo ] . |
| 9 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 10 | His voice was low , too low for anyone else to hear , but it 's tone was biting . |
| 11 | I thought it was so strange for him not to mention her anywhere else . |
| 12 | The use of ‘ late ’ in line four is particularly interesting for it also has more than one meaning . |
| 13 | So they reverted to their original position : that as neither of them missed sex , it was OK for them not to have it . |
| 14 | From our point of view we 're not in the position and it would be totally wrong of us actually to try in public to deal with those or to come to a specific conclusion about any particular proposal . |
| 15 | If , for instance , I volunteered to give up some of my bone marrow to save a person suffering from leukaemia , then , so long as my own health was not in danger , there would seem to be nothing wrong with my momentarily relinquishing my autonomy . |
| 16 | The IBOA fundamentally disagrees with this course of action as the clarification document which resulted from the Labour Court Recommendation 13601 clearly indicates times for opening from 10.00a.m. to 4.00p.m. uninterrupted with one late opening day . |
| 17 | The researcher is little different from anyone else joining a new group and trying to be accepted by them . |
| 18 | Lorrimer came and stood inside the door , tall , unsmiling in his carefully buttoned white coat , and regarded Middlemass with his dark , wary eyes . |
| 19 | How could countries dependent upon her economically exercise any meaningful constraint ? |
| 20 | Although supplementary pensions and allowances ensure that basic needs are met , those who are entirely dependent upon them certainly suffer some degree of hardship compared with the standard of living of the majority of citizens , and strenuous efforts are being made to raise the level of the government 's ‘ guaranteed income ’ . |
| 21 | Some visually handicapped children will overcome their difficulties so well that they are indistinguishable from their fully sighted classmates , but the effort needed may have a cost for them that is not always appreciated . |
| 22 | Then the Burewala Bombshell started to work Smith over , kicking a bouncer high over him then hitting him in the box , before having him caught for a duck , pushing to midwicket as he swung his body behind a fixed forward prod : 27 for 2 . |
| 23 | Such a reaction is closely analogous to one frequently observed among baboons and other primates . |
| 24 | Some women are financially dependent on other members of the family and so may be dependent on someone else to pay their Poll Tax bill . |
| 25 | It can nevertheless be seen as a kind of charade whereby societies have in the past been held together but which , as a charade , is replaceable by something not involving the pretence element . |
| 26 | Now that I 'm feeling a bit calmer , I can see that it was amazingly presumptuous of me even to imagine that Madeleine might love me enough to sacrifice all the luxuries she 's used to , just to be with me ! |
| 27 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 28 | It was n't polite of them not to answer the door , knowing that he was standing there , but it did n't really matter . |
| 29 | Polygon and EUP staff work alongside one another in the press 's four-storey Georgian offices , effectively open-plan through everyone habitually leaving the doors of their small rooms open . |
| 30 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |