Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 2 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 3 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 4 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
| 5 | NOTE Because ears are so sensitive , it is very painful if you shout in the ear of someone whose aid is switched on . |
| 6 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 7 | Well , things are different if you live in the Gorgie-Dalry area of Edinburgh — or at least , they were until recently . |
| 8 | The driver had the good manners to signal with headlights that he was clear but he stayed in the overtaking lane , letting the twin turbos build up speed . |
| 9 | New chief executive Lewis Platt shows a welcome colourful turn of phrase as he says ‘ We 're about as well-positioned as anyone to succeed in the murky environment that fiscal 1993 looks like it will be . |
| 10 | Suddenly rain poured down , and although we hurried back to the house , we were quite wet when we arrived in the hall . |
| 11 | The sweat was running down your back all day and I 've seen me taken off my white clothes and hang them up and they were still wet when you come in the next day . |
| 12 | That 's the worst time for her , she gets afraid when she wakes in the night . ’ |
| 13 | It seems as certain as anything can be that the absolute numbers of the old , and for a long time also their number relative to the whole population , will be far higher in future than anything experienced in the past . |
| 14 | He produced newspaper cuttings proving that BB came to Nefta but I am not convinced that she stayed in the Hotel de la Liberté , whose plumbing leaves everything to be desired . |
| 15 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 16 | But do n't you feel uncomfortable , you as a member of the medical profession , do n't you feel uncomfortable if there exists in the wider world a set of rules which would condemn as one of the most heinous crimes that which you regard as the most humane of conduct ? |
| 17 | Venville tenants paid a certain , very small , fixed rent to the king or duchy , and were allowed free pasture on the commons and forest by day , but had to pay extra if they remained in the forest by night . |
| 18 | It was almost totally dark when they arrived in the stable yard and Catherine jumped involuntarily as something moved and rattled against the boards . |
| 19 | Well to tell you the truth I did n't really see him cos it was dark when he got in the car . |
| 20 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |
| 21 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 22 | Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I got in the way just now , when you wanted to talk about the vineyard . ’ |
| 24 | Sunday dawned dry and we gathered in the church again for morning prayer ; followed by breakfast . |
| 25 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 26 | Both seemed to have difficulties with the stage , and slipped and tripped here and there , but they were so magnificent that nobody minded in the least . |
| 27 | It is the interactional that I examined in the chapter in some detail . |
| 28 | It is unfortunate that we have in the Australia v New Zealand Second Test seen a player have his nose broken through illegal play , and the player 's union concerned choosing not to use this new law change . |
| 29 | If the choleretic response to feeding is mediated by a vago-bagal reflex , then it is likely that it relays in the solitary tract nucleus in the brainstem , which is the first relay nucleus for all afferent bisceral sensation . |
| 30 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |