Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another helpful procedure would be to let children who are learning to read silently have some experience of reading aloud , to one another , passages of their own choosing , not ‘ from cold ’ , as a test of reading skill , but after they have become familiar with a text in general terms and have perhaps had a chance to look closely at syntax or vocabulary found to be perplexing . |
| 2 | Arnie did n't think that big was beautiful he believed small was secure-and Crocus had to be secure ; the blowback potential was massive . |
| 3 | At the same time , the leadership roles and potential of other staff were valued and developed , and decision-making tended to be collective . |
| 4 | The professional ideal for the discipline was constituted as the achievement of a complete " personality " ; a quality and character understood to be inalienable , and therefore immune from the mutabilities of style , manner , vocabulary , and imagery . |
| 5 | But even the happiness Mother and Father felt at being able to live together under the same roof at last was tinged with sadness , because they both liked Stainmore very much and would have preferred to stay in the area . |
| 6 | Besides , women workers might be cheaper , but too many depressed breadwinners could damage national morale , and morale needed to be high for what was coming . |
| 7 | Phrase structure rules would implicitly have been adopted , legitimating certain combinations that have successfully occurred , as well as others that had not yet occurred but might very well have , and with similar success , had the choice of words and message had to be different . |