Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the local standing of bishops could often overflow into effective influence at the court of the emperor or the king and give him influence with them and their officials , the bishop was primarily a leader of the local community : the Christian people of the town and the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | If your standard way of eating ( or your slimming diet ) includes a mix of proteins , complex carbohydrate , and fresh fruits at each meal , you are much less likely to eat large amounts of refined sugar or the products that contain it . |
| 3 | Had to cut the rashes or the sprots and theekit them that way . |
| 4 | We sat down then and all the time he was eating Frankie could n't keep his eyes off her or the things that surrounded him . |
| 5 | Apathy is an extreme feeling that we no longer have control over our lives or the things that sweep us along . |
| 6 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 7 | She is , of course , renowned for her critical essays punctuated with cusses on the male of the species and does n't spare the blushes or the punches when exposing them to ridicule . |
| 8 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 9 | So , it is not the country of domicile of economic institutions or the classes that dominate them that is the primary consideration in explaining how the global system works , but rather the structural locations of institutions and classes in the global capitalist system . |
| 10 | Or perhaps the universe , or the agency that created it , existed forever and did n't need to be created . |
| 11 | They never saw the wagon or the men that brought it here . |
| 12 | They are not sufficient to justify the portrayal of Scotland as being out on a limb from the rest of Britain , either in its voting behaviour or the thinking that produces it . |
| 13 | They appear in the most numbers where the marshes meet the wolds and where the stream that feed them from this higher region are , in consequence , faster flowing . |
| 14 | Pour it in a glass and look at it , or a spoon but pour it out the bottle , hold your breath and Bob 's your uncle ! |
| 15 | And remember , it often helps to get into an agency as a secretary or a messenger and to take it from there . |
| 16 | or a hospital and ask them to give a good check , what they told us , they dare n't seemed to want to bother with people now |
| 17 | Play behaviour , as we will see , is largely assimilation : the person playing decides that a piece of stick is a car or a gun and treats it as such until the play ends . |
| 18 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 19 | We may be totally unable to recall an event or a fact but recognise it and all its context immediately if it is presented . |
| 20 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 21 | Write down all the difficult questions that you do n't feel you have an answer for and try to find a person or a book that helps you answer them . |
| 22 | Everything they had given her ( except the finger-plug that jacked her into infinity ) fitted into one bag that did n't seem to belong to her . |
| 23 | Mr Gummer , in a letter to the committee chairman , Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith , last night welcomed the committee 's acceptance that there was no intent to conceal the work nor the sponsorship that financed it . |
| 24 | But none have forgotten the pain of being driven from their parents nor the welcome and love they were given at Waddesdon as a small compensation for that loss . |
| 25 | Mm yeah and apart from that the bloke that sold it must have known cos he |
| 26 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 27 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 28 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 29 | Er my biggest downfall was that the guy that employed me who was the eldest brother of the two that owned the company got killed in a bloody erm riding accident |
| 30 | It has membership of a number of University committees so that the information and comment it may wish to provide can be easily and quickly put into the University 's decision-making processes . |