Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm writing a report on her former colleague , because suspicions have been voiced that she is the agent of some foreign power — though , I hasten to add , I personally regard this as nonsense , and am convinced he died simply because she somehow … |
| 2 | I only got that cos kindergarten . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when I have to make precious substances such as toenail cheese or belly-button fluff , I have to go without a shower or bath for days and days ; I hate doing this because I soon feel dirty and itchy , and the only bright thing about such abstinence is how good it feels to have a shower at the end of it . |
| 4 | The reforms aim to cut the bill by making more people pay bigger contributions towards civil legal aid , which mainly covers matrimonial and compensation cases . |
| 5 | Nowell , a solicitor , and his wife Penny have taken thirty years to develop the lovely garden at Baubles which now boasts ornamental and wildlife ponds and a wide variety of trees , shrubs , a tennis court and a swimming pool . |
| 6 | She always loathed naturalistic and realist writing , and locates in Raymond Carver a ‘ grey … glum … discontented acquiescence ’ that could be applied to any number of British anaemic depressives . |
| 7 | The land itself rapidly becomes degraded and land in receipt of drainage from these slopes is also adversely affected . |
| 8 | Then , joined by Jason Lowenstein , another drummer who also played bass and guitar , Sebadoh released ‘ Gimmie Indie Rock ’ as a single of Homestead last year . |
| 9 | The UK delegation was to comprise myself heading the delegation and two principal inspectors , Geoffrey Wilkinson and Peter Bardon , who subsequently became Chief and Deputy Chief Inspector respectively . |
| 10 | They also admitted light and air if the barn was not full . |
| 11 | They also look leaner and fitter — have you ever seen a fat vegetarian ? |
| 12 | He entirely lacks financial and business experience . |
| 13 | It swiftly became apparent that congress would not go along with such an increase , especially after the big Democratic gains in the 1974 elections . |
| 14 | It made her want to cry , the way he suddenly seemed whole and human . |
| 15 | He remained with Champneys until 1880 , but it soon became clear that architecture would never be his chief preoccupation . |
| 16 | It soon became clear that breach of confidence was actionable per se , and did not require a contractual relationship between the parties . |
| 17 | Worse , when resentment over exploitation is recognized , how did it ever get reinterpreted as illness ? |
| 18 | In 590 it further became apparent that bishop Egidius of Rheims had been involved in Rauching 's plot , and he was deposed from his see . |
| 19 | For heavy goods , especially of timber and stone , it still seems likely that water transport , by river and sea and a little by canal , was cheaper and more expeditious than long-distance travel by road — and that there was sense as well as sentiment , for example , in the devotion the Norman builders showed in England for their native stone from Caen . |
| 20 | He is a very religious figure , who is innocent and imaginative , he always remains calm and collective . |
| 21 | Victory gave Charlton their 11th away League win , but it hardly looked likely when captain Gary Bennett headed Sunderland ahead after 56 minutes . |
| 22 | It also seems likely that unemployment and other social problems contributed further to the view that Labour offered the only alternative to the failures of capitalism — no matter how illusory that viewpoint may have been . |
| 23 | No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 24 | The virtue of this control/constraint approach is that while laying due emphasis on the significance of management power , it also makes clear that management control is not an absolute . |
| 25 | Philip 's comments provide an ironic commentary on other ( younger ? ) readers who identify strongly with the B. A. He suggests the possibility of using the text to bolster the male reader 's own claims to superhuman strength even as he simultaneously dismisses this as fantasy . |
| 26 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 27 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 28 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 29 | It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 . |
| 30 | The government did not choose the firms ; it simply changed legal and tax rules to help mergers . |