Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rational people do in general pursue , and at their more moral help each other to pursue , what they want or supposedly would want in fuller awareness of themselves and their conditions , and in unmasking self-deception they recognize the genuine want by its spontaneity ; the liberal and rationalist tradition even tends to reject as irrational any prescription of religion or custom which requires us to act otherwise . |
| 2 | If only he could talk to her now , Brian thought , get into her mind , instead of finding himself practically unable to make any kind of conversation at all . |
| 3 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 4 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 5 | The deer remaining at large were removed , and on completion of the work of the Commissioners the forests were declared to be disafforested , and no one henceforth liable to pay any penalty for hunting therein , except in enclosed parks . |
| 6 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We know that we have done everything humanly possible to prevent any incident from happening but nobody can be 100 per cent sure . |
| 8 | Describing everyone as neurotic makes any distinction between normality and neurosis impossible . |
| 9 | It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation . |
| 10 | ‘ He wo n't find it so easy to get another wife , ’ she said to Owen . |
| 11 | Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur . |
| 12 | But this made it extremely difficult to follow any strategy of industrial reorganisation ; and in this respect there are interesting parallels between the late 1960s and the late 1940s . |
| 13 | Attending the performance of a pastiche Jacobean tragedy , she attempts to incorporate lines from this play into the evidence she is piecing together , but then finds it utterly impossible to locate any edition which would confirm the lines she heard . |
| 14 | No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others . |
| 15 | Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself . |
| 16 | But the scale of the buy-outs might make it more difficult to maintain that position . |
| 17 | Our patients were manifesting potentially dangerous hypoxaemia , and we did not consider it ethically appropriate to withhold this form of treatment . |
| 18 | ‘ Students are finding it increasingly difficult to get that experience . |
| 19 | In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury . |
| 20 | ‘ I find it almost impossible to imagine any frequenter of this club using a lap-top computer . |
| 21 | To follow that rule uncritically for Margery Kempe would make it virtually impossible to reach any conclusion about her from a modern psychiatric viewpoint , given the religious climate of her times . |
| 22 | Today many people find it virtually impossible to conjure any face other than Clark Gable 's as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind . |
| 23 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 24 | I found it very difficult to say this word , and so I decided to shorten it and call them Houys . |
| 25 | With the possible exception of grant-maintained status , for which I personally find it very difficult to see any merit or justification , the other provisions with potential threat for children with special needs ( open enrolment and local financial management ) are for me rather like the curate 's egg . |
| 26 | Detectives are finding it very difficult to extract any information from the travelling communities |
| 27 | Rapidly changing light at any time , especially at sunset or sunrise , makes it very difficult to get this kind of balance right . |
| 28 | Next year 's meeting is to be held in June 1992 in Glasgow , where environmental lobbying is expected to be at such a pitch that delegations may find it politically impossible to approve any renewal of large-scale hunting . |