Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 32 | It 's very difficult , because you 're , again , I mean , we 're saying that we do n't get positive feedback , how many of us truthfully give positive feedback through to our staff ? |
| 33 | Few of us truly enjoy administrative work , and the time that we spend on it is lost from direct contact with our patients — or our families . |
| 34 | However , most of us now admit that reason unassisted by observation can never break out of the closed circle of logic and mathematics . |
| 35 | ( I an happy to report , however , that none of us now has any fear at all of dogs — indeed familiarity has made us quite fond of them . ) |
| 36 | I take this opportunity of welcoming Mike Clarke , managing director of European Operations , and also Richard Borger , managing director of our newly registered German company , Wimpey GmbH . |
| 37 | The limitations of our normally functioning sensory apparatus enable us to experience a minute fragment of actual ‘ reality ’ . |
| 38 | I think it 's a sad indictment of our so called democratic system when they are afraid of having an elected head of state , that they are afraid that we might have a dictator ! |
| 39 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |
| 40 | This would inevitably imply the end of our Westminster Parliament in any real sense and the loss of our freedom to decide our political , economic and social priorities and , with it , the loss of our hard won democratic system . |
| 41 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 42 | Do you ever find that that makes life a bit difficult for you only recommending one company ? |
| 43 | Like nobody else had any right to be normal . |
| 44 | ‘ You 're telling me a woman like you actually obeys that stuff ? ’ |
| 45 | ‘ Old fashioned shops like ours still have half-day closing . |
| 46 | A corporation may sue for a libel affecting property , not for one merely affecting personal reputation . |
| 47 | your previous home is empty because you have gone to live with someone else to provide personal care because they are elderly , ill or disabled |
| 48 | with me wrong hand I do n't told you that did n't I , I was well shagged with someone fucking swim left hand |
| 49 | Alix arrived at the gates , at the high wall , with its discreetly disguised barbed wire , at the porter 's lodge . |
| 50 | It 's the way it combines it with a ‘ look ’ as striking and individual as any on the road today , both inside and out : from the inverted half-moon headlights to the reprioritised facia with its straight-ahead warning light strip and digital speed , fuel and range display on the centre console ; from the impossibly sporting rake of the bonnet and windscreen to the way the rear seat is set on runners to offer the maximum degree of flexibility between legroom and luggage space . |
| 51 | In this decade of ‘ caring ’ rock , with its explicitly raised political consciousness and its ‘ new men ’ like Geldof , Bono and Sting , such hard , macho musics easily seem anomalous and distinctly dubious in their appeal . |
| 52 | Jordanstown is ideally placed for quick trips to Belfast , the capital city , or for an exploratory tour of Carrickfergus , with its perfectly preserved 12th-century castle , Elizabethan parish church and modern marina . |
| 53 | Jordanstown is ideally placed for quick trips to Belfast , the capital city , or for an exploratory tour of Carrickfergus , with its perfectly preserved 12th-century castle , Elizabethan parish church and modern marina . |
| 54 | This had , and George Eliot knew it , little or even nothing to do with Christ 's injunctions to his followers , and certainly nothing at all to do with the Incarnation which was now being celebrated as the congregation sang " Unto us a Boy is Born " as Daniel at the white-draped altar , with its lovingly embroidered white cloth , watched with Mr Ellenby over the bread and wine . |
| 55 | Olivetti unveiled Pyramid-developed boards with from one-to-four high-end MIPS R4000MP CPUs which can plug into its previously announced Advanced Computing Environment LSX 5030 multi-processor , which currently uses up to four 33MHz Intel 80486 parts . |
| 56 | THE LEAVING TRAINS : ‘ Sleeping Underwater Survivors ’ ( SST ) misunderstood Los Angeles band with their confusingly titled fourth album of mixed up and messed about songs of violence and torture — out on Monday |
| 57 | ‘ I would love , ’ he said , ‘ to go along with you just to see this horse do the work . ’ |
| 58 | The huge woman came billowing down to the entrance hall , dressed in bright orange , which went uncomfortably with her recently revivified red hair . |
| 59 | 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 ’ . |
| 60 | Lorrimer came and stood inside the door , tall , unsmiling in his carefully buttoned white coat , and regarded Middlemass with his dark , wary eyes . |