Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The reason for setting aside a through the request as researchers where we 're actually going to go through all the procedures , highlighting , the changes are and why . |
| 2 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 3 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 4 | This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage . |
| 5 | If we are to establish how and to what extent routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's divisions , it would be useless to base our research where there is only militarized political policing ( even though there are at least formal attempts to try to normalize policing in areas of high tension ) , for it is necessary to explore the extent to which policing in so-called ‘ soft ’ areas is contaminated by wider societal conflicts . |
| 6 | The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) . |
| 7 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 8 | He did n't know why he had come , hated himself for coming , but had by now tormented himself into a state of mind where he was deliberately looking for fresh spasms of anguish . |
| 9 | Watching at the scene was one of the unfortunate residents , Mr. Worby , manager of the Co-operative Society 's Outfitting Department where I was often taken to buy clothes . |
| 10 | refrain from taking some action that I am currently taking ? |
| 11 | So great was Rodrigo 's grief that he was almost paralysed for several weeks . |
| 12 | It was a farce , a terrible play , but still a real play because these two were acting out a charade of fright and face-saving and if he did anything to break the illusion that they were still taking decisions for themselves then he was going to get himself shot . |
| 13 | A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’ |
| 14 | As Bacon and Butler ( 1981 ) point out , the seriousness of this problem is not generally recognized ; most firms are poorly equipped to deal with the technical change and continue to operate with organizations that themselves are poorly designed . |
| 15 | It is not surprising , therefore , that incomes have dropped severely during the last few years , with the result that we are now beginning to see signs of dereliction . |
| 16 | However , Jenny explained that there were few feminists and a small number of women teachers who were involved in equal opportunities work , with the result that they were rarely treated seriously ( cf Joyce , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | In explosive breeding , all reproductive activity is packed into a few days , with the result that it is highly synchronised . |
| 18 | Alex , from his position in the wings , was not concentrating as much and could not easily be kept informed about when they were stopping and starting , going back to rehearse lighting changes and so on , with the result that he was often feeding the wrong words . |
| 19 | It was a programme that I was never to perform — until tonight . |
| 20 | Bearing in mind that I 'm still finding my way around Symphony , I fear that every next step might lock the processor . |
| 21 | basically he 's studied this minute area of China and , and basically , from that minute area of China , from his experiences , bearing in mind that he 's obviously trying to sell revolution , he is then generalizing about the whole of China . |
| 22 | She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer . |
| 23 | I 've always felt that I was raised in the land of melody but I certainly was n't raised in the land of rhythm so I 'm always attracted to good dance music . |
| 24 | She must be re-living her sad memories with such concentration that she was somehow passing them on to him . |
| 25 | The admission that laws of nature can not be established by induction became possible only with Karl Popper 's demonstration that they are sufficiently assured by a continued failure to refute them , the rationality of a claim depending not on its origin but on its success in surviving criticism . |
| 26 | Despite the assurances of the Director of his Department that he was favourably looked upon , and despite the fact that there was no doubt that at his office he was being treated with a subtle air of respect , nothing formal or official about his promotion had been announced ; and as he knew very well , a change of Directorship , a shift in Government economic policy , even a chill wind in international relations , could mean the end of his hopes . |
| 27 | ‘ We were able to draw on our experience in academic bookselling , and demonstrate to the Hallam that we were already running a successful academic bookshop in Sheffield . |
| 28 | ’ We feel that our political representatives require more guidance than they are currently getting . |
| 29 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 30 | Like all the other young men I had imagined that after a few brisk preliminaries I would be sitting in an aeroplane , learning to fly , but it turned out that this was so far in the future that it was hardly mentioned . |