Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 2 | In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals . |
| 3 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 4 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 5 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 6 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 7 | It is this that we examine in the next section . |
| 8 | Mrs Henry embarked on a course in herbal medicine and it was during this that she heard about the Gerson therapy . |
| 9 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 10 | He made clear that he agreed with the thrust of all the other recommendations , except the one which said that responsibility for food should remain within the Department of Agriculture . |
| 11 | To begin with the efficacy of parliamentary control , it is clear that it suffers from the federal constitution itself : the intricacy of policy decisions , complex inter-governmental decision-making structures at the national , sub-national and supranational level , and the inherent complexity of new policy areas , have all made parliamentary scrutiny more difficult . |
| 12 | That evening Wycliffe 's after-dinner walk took him once more to Newlyn , but it was a fine evening and still light so he continued along the coast road , past the stone quarries , to Mousehole . |
| 13 | In the torrid heat of the afternoon the village seemed deserted so I hammered on an iron gate . |
| 14 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 15 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 16 | They ended in a pair of green bronze doors , each so high that they disappeared into the gloom . |
| 17 | This comment in a recent ILO/UNCTC study of EPZs in the Caribbean is very typical : ‘ In spite of the small number of jobs generated so far , the rate at which EPZs create employment is , however , so high that they rank as the most dynamic agents for job creation compared with other sources of national employment ’ ( Long , 1986 , p.60 ) . |
| 18 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 19 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 20 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 21 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 22 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 23 | The shortfall density algorithm would pursue one interpretation depth-first until it came to an area that scored less well , such as that … |
| 24 | The coaching session can help create this if it revolves around the person 's job and role . |
| 25 | That there 's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness . |
| 26 | I speak through this and it bounces of the dish to the other one . |
| 27 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 28 | He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like . |
| 29 | So he 's walking down the street , trying ah , trying ah to get his mind off this and he gets on a train . |
| 30 | Erm , it would seem sensible if we look across the whole commission to try and even things out . |