Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't seem to take offence at my lack of enthusiasm for the system which had made religion into something you did in your home or in private or at its most social — in the privacy of a cubicle in Major TOM . |
| 2 | Roberta and Faye were asleep or at their women 's place . |
| 3 | Despite these reservations MDC has enjoyed major successes in physically regenerating its area , which looks dramatically different than at its initial designation . |
| 4 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 5 | But in a few more months , Joyce wrote his apologia and made it clear that despite their apparent freedom of choice , there was in reality only one decision that he could have taken : |
| 6 | However it began to be clear that despite our good possession we were short on attacks . |
| 7 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
| 8 | But what had just happened had nothing to do with etiquette : Antonio Crepi had made it clear that for him , and by extension for the whole of the Perugia that mattered , Zen had ceased to exist . |
| 9 | The context in Mark 3:20–30 makes it abundantly clear that by his cures and exorcisms Jesus is driving out the demons . |
| 10 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 11 | However , Mr. Thornton made clear that in his submission requesting the receipt was merely an incident in the operation of the shop . |
| 12 | Cecil made it quite clear that in his opinion , at least , the " strangers " in charge of the works were pretending to act simply and fairly towards the society but were thought to be dealing more for their own " private lucre " than for the benefit of the society , " … this despite diverse great sums of money due by them for rent having been remitted for their better encouragement to carry on the work … " |
| 13 | If the reader is tempted to doubt the general validity of such a concrete and specific historical instance , let me remind him that Campanella — an ostensibly Christian author , be it noted — makes it perfectly clear that in his socialist utopia , the City of the Sun , ‘ no one can receive gifts from another . |
| 14 | He also made it clear that in his view a lasting political settlement could only be achieved when the Algerian people made their wishes known through the ballot box . |
| 15 | The general cargo ship was empty except for its own fuel oil when it hit the island , lying between Orkney and the Scottish mainland , in the early hours of Saturday . |
| 16 | Bukharin argued , moreover , that primitive accumulation belongs to the prehistory of capitalism and therefore does not belong to a consideration of its history proper nor of its modern functioning . |
| 17 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 18 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 19 | So , I abandoned French and in its place took up Hungarian studies . |
| 20 | In order to do this , we need to challenge many popular perceptions of old age and ageing and of their impact upon society as a whole . |
| 21 | It is historical and of our world . |
| 22 | You ought to be careful cos of your clothes |
| 23 | One of the refreshing aspects of Torquay was bumping into first timers , for whom everything was interesting and for whom rubbing shoulders with the likes of Alan Giles , Bing Taylor , Trevor Glover , Paula Kahn , Peter Winslow , Richard Charkin , Kip Bertram , Frank Brazier et al was a bit of a thrill . |
| 24 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 25 | The resulting parchment is both very strong and very light and with it , paper wasps can build very big nests indeed . |
| 26 | He 's very successful , very funny and on his way to the top . ’ |
| 27 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 28 | Now I had a companion to share everything with , someone I knew of old and with whom there were no constraints , and seven years ' news to keep the conversation flowing . |
| 29 | ‘ When I was asked to speak on this happy occasion , my mind went back to when I was seven years old and with my twin brother and others , we were being prepared for first Holy Communion . |
| 30 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |