Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life for Hannah Hauxwell then settled into a pattern which basically continues to this day . |
| 2 | Bellburn Lane is a residential cul de sac which already suffers with more traffic than it can safely handle . |
| 3 | The report will be used by the Woolwich instead of the mortgage valuation report as it includes all the information which usually appears in that report . |
| 4 | This protection earned the soldiers the nickname of ‘ leathernecks ’ , which still persists to this day . |
| 5 | The debate over the radical or conservative nature of the peasantry is a long-lasting one which still continues with some vigour . |
| 6 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 7 | Nobody really retires from this business . |
| 8 | Nobody really retires from this business . |
| 9 | Likewise with his existential emphasis , which closely relates to that humanism . |
| 10 | The ‘ statue ’ metaphor which is so chilling in ‘ The Missing ’ ; the balance of the mental conflicts in ‘ In Time of Plague ’ which never sways to either side and leaves the question unanswered : the twist in the tale of ‘ The Reassurance ’ with its bitter irony . |
| 11 | Often you will find a horse or pony which never gets over this fear . |
| 12 | The debt which never appears in any balance sheet or account is that owed by the Association to the fund-raising efforts of its supporters and the generosity of the public . |
| 13 | The name of " Jhesu " concentrates an understanding of the energy of love which continually works to this end and used in prayer becomes a kind of brief mnemonic for this whole area of understanding and longing . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's been so conditioned by her husband that she instinctively kowtows to any man who says ‘ boo ’ to her . ’ |
| 15 | Nobody as beautiful as you ever works in this factory . |
| 16 | The drama itself also benefits from this approach : writing in role slows the drama down in a very productive fashion , encouraging children to look at a particular situation in much greater depth than they would otherwise . |
| 17 | She probably comes on another day . |
| 18 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 19 | And if our parliamentary accountability is as important as she frequently claims in this context , why is she reluctant to take part in the debate ? |
| 20 | Or he may pass the information to a non-member of the exchange , who then deals through another broker or in the over-the-counter ( OTC ) market . |
| 21 | Such a recitation may lead to the conclusion that one who consistently holds to this position ( as has been my experience ) lands outside the church . |
| 22 | She enters the feminist debate here , arguing that some feminists have misunderstood the significance of pornography , taking it to be a major cause of the oppression of women , rather than a symptom of it , albeit a symptom which itself then contributes to that oppression . |
| 23 | She never goes into that room , huh ? |
| 24 | Indeed this is a fresh act of God 's grace , which many a one only receives after much labour . |
| 25 | Stress-timed rhythm is thus perhaps characteristic of one style of speaking , not of English speech as a whole ; one always speaks with some degree of rhythmicality , but the degree will vary between a minimum value ( arhythmical ) and a maximum ( completely stress-timed rhythm ) . |
| 26 | I mean , that 's the kind of thing one often hears on this programme , is it wishful thinking or d' you think we could actually achieve it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation . |
| 28 | Virtually everything else follows from this proposition . |
| 29 | Well , she 'll say to him , put kettle on and butter some bread , and he 'll sit there , and he 's smoking , and he 's continuing what he 's doing , you know , and she 'll go and do what she 's doing , and she , have you flicking arse-hole you to do , and , you know , any , it just goes in that ear , comes out 'ther ear , and just sallies on , and do n't take blind bit of notice . |
| 30 | He thus belongs to that school of thought that believes in the importance of the ‘ mark . ’ |