Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 2 | And , of the instinctual components necessarily repressed and sublimated in the service of culture , the coprophilic is one of the most significant , says Freud : ‘ the excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual ; the position of the genitals — inter urinas et faeces — remains the decisive and unchangeable factor ’ ( vii . |
| 3 | Sam was so delighted and went round the room shaking hands , offering peace and cake . |
| 4 | Everyone used to say to me , ‘ how do you manage to stay so cool and relaxed for a big event , Aston ? ’ |
| 5 | The girls looked a little less sulky and stared at the two townees . |
| 6 | He was highly cultured and came of a family of minor nobility . |
| 7 | We stand either not guilty or condemned before a righteous God and are never excused or condemned because our actions fall above or below group expectations . |
| 8 | First , the agreement that risk should pass independently from property was not express but inferred by the court from the circumstances of the case . |
| 9 | Born in 1925 of a Ukrainian immigrant father , Bérégovoy was largely self-taught and fought in the resistance during the Second World War . |
| 10 | Though momentarily disoriented and deafened by the blast , Grant still felt the floor shake under him and heard the ominous rumble which told him what he dreaded to know . |
| 11 | His statement is also that of Psalm 68 ( verse 24 ) where the presence of my God and my King in the sanctuary is not plain but celebrated in a rich display of singers , musicians , and ‘ damsels playing with timbrels ’ . |
| 12 | Robyn swallowed and tried to work out whether she should feel relieved or even more depressed and decided after a moment on the latter . |
| 13 | In Japan sales of cars were still depressed and fell by a further 8.5% . |
| 14 | She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable . |
| 15 | Craig hurried up the stairs as the knocking became more insistent and paused for a moment staring back to the hallway . |
| 16 | Field dependence tends to arise in those who are more socialised and group-orientated in a society which emphasises order ; these people tend to have stronger perceptions and feelings for others . |
| 17 | I wished I had been more patient and stayed at the witchdoctor 's . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose that I was still naive and intoxicated by the candyfloss world that racing can seem to be . ’ |
| 19 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
| 20 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of Isobel 's wonderful ideas were just too costly , but many others were totally practical and went into the mix . |
| 22 | O. coriacea superficially resembles Ophiotrema alberti from which it differs by the lack of distinct spinelets on the disk ; the shape of the adoral shields which are straight and do not have an indented proximal edge while those of Ophiotrema alberti are more wing-like and indented over the second oral tentacle pore ; the shape of the oral shields which are arrow shaped not round and almost hemispherical as in some specimens of Ophiotrema and by the absence of tentacle scales in Ophiotoma . |
| 23 | In an interview on Feb. 4 , the Prince said that the Khmers Rouges had finally accepted the change " because they are aware they have become more and more isolated and hated on the international level " . |
| 24 | It says something , perhaps , about the persisting British inability to realise the depth of commitment to something totally new that existed among the Six . |
| 25 | The fight over appointments became more and more bitter and added to the all-engulfing problems of Christine Jackson 's recruiting operation , with its Equal Opportunities commitments . |
| 26 | In fact the Eliots travelled across the Atlantic for the second time in October ; when he stopped at Chicago to give a reading on his way to St Louis , a reporter noted that he " looked rather tired and smiled in a vague , undirected way " . |
| 27 | The footpath that runs with the burn is not one of those carefully waymarked and leafleted by the Forestry Commission . |
| 28 | He gave up flat-hunting and went to the cinema . |
| 29 | In practice , thought , the Antares 130 was slightly thirsty and turned in a pto fuel consumption figure of 265g/kWhr. given a 20% power loss between engine and pto , this gives a fuel consumption figure for the engine of 238g/kWhr . |
| 30 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |