Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is everything I did for Miss Elizabeth worthless and am I foolish to expect more of her ? |
| 2 | Since so much emphasis falls on the pronouns , it seems to me natural to turn next to the basic grounding of education and humanity in the Renaissance , the trivium ( grammar , logic , rhetoric ) and to ask what these grammatical categories meant in Shakespeare 's time , and what they mean today , so joining the history of grammar — a subject whose importance to the study of literature is seldom realized — to modern linguistics . |
| 3 | You flipping get that off your mind for start ! |
| 4 | Er well who were you supposed to give that to ? |
| 5 | Now did you , did you find that er were you ab were you able to repeat any of the biopsies and see whether in the er in the er group with the less vessels more , more vessels were er accumulating ? |
| 6 | We 'd discuss our budget and say ‘ are you able to support this as a viable budget ? ’ . |
| 7 | You happy to pay that on receipt of invoices for that money ? |
| 8 | Are we looking for freshness and flavour , or are we happy to forgo these for the headier feeling that longevity might be achieved if we avoid imbibing pesticide residues . |
| 9 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 10 | These have concentrated on individuals adopted shortly after birth , making it possible to disentangle genetic from environmental effects . |
| 11 | Is not it possible to put many of those documents in the public domain and publish them as Public Accounts Committee documents ? |
| 12 | Indeed , only by holding to a very diffuse and very general understanding of social theory is it possible to see many of these views and their exponents as representatives of the same general theoretical approach . |
| 13 | Is it possible to make more of our later lives ? |
| 14 | Most importantly , it would make it possible to keep warm for much less cost and therefore mean fewer deaths and fewer illnesses from the effects of living in cold , damp sub-standard housing . |
| 15 | Joint stock companies found it possible to grow larger by issuing new shares to increase their capital , and mergers and takeovers saw the average size of firms grow . |
| 16 | Hindsight makes it possible to distinguish ideal from reality , illusion from conceivable outcome . |
| 17 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 18 | Assuming the worst — that Mark has to be moved — is it justifiable to achieve this by threatening Sheila with legal action ? |
| 19 | If the training and enterprise councils think it appropriate to make some of those funds available for unemployed people , they are perfectly free to do so . |
| 20 | ‘ I hate to interject a note of boring realism here , ’ Piers said , ‘ but is n't it easy to say that in retrospect ? ’ |
| 21 | Coran Brothers FC have their ground on the outskirts of Watley and as the train goes through the middle of the town you may think it impossible to see any of Linekar Avenue but this is not so . |
| 22 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 23 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |
| 24 | Whilst that may work well enough in a small firm ( though even then the theory may need some adjustment , if only for example to permit decisions to be taken while partners are on holiday ) , the complexity which attends the affairs of all solicitors ' practices of any size will make it impossible to give each of the partners such degrees of freedom or power . |
| 25 | ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’ |
| 26 | Editor , — It is true , as James Owen Drife points out , that it has become at least partially acceptable for women to stereotype the worst of male behaviour and make fun of it , but somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for him . |
| 27 | French number 3 seed Janek Noah made an early exit from the Stuttgart classic A T P tournament today , complaining he was finding it hard to stay motivated for top class tennis . |
| 28 | The most detailed discussion of the difference between fall-rise and the ‘ compound ’ fall-plus-rise is Sharp ( 1958 ) , though this is not easy reading and many will find it hard to follow some of the examples . |
| 29 | So we felt it reasonable to put that into the pot for discussion . |
| 30 | I have found it helpful to categorise these into two areas — those which relate to the nature of mathematics and those which relate to the nature of mathematics education . |