Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At decision point B in Fig. 8.5. we do not know the full scores of the paths , but we can try to look ahead and estimate them or extrapolate from current scores . |
| 2 | There was nothing that corresponds to modern social security , except charity and relief from actual destitution , and sometimes little of either . |
| 3 | So anything that the landlo er the rich peasant owns and works himself or cultivates by hired labour you 're going to allow to keep . |
| 4 | Michael Stroud has been treating himself and Ran with medical supplies on the aircraft . |
| 5 | The war inside himself was a small conflagration compared with the bombardments he saw for himself and read about daily . |
| 6 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 7 | Reed Consumer Books was this week locked in dispute with leading wholesalers after proposing to introduce a standardised discount structure and abolishing full credit on returns , in a move which if pursued by other publishers could seriously damage the long-term prospects of the wholesale sector . |
| 8 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 9 | Unlike the pluralist approach which when dealing with macro-political issues directs its attention towards attitudes , ethics , belief systems and individualistic cultural components , this Gramscian Marxist perspective investigates the linkages between economic structures ( such as landholding ) , national development ( such as the effect on artisan or fledgling industry of suddenly imposed competition with more advanced areas ) and the instruments of intellectual control through which the economic domination is legitimated . |
| 10 | They come to me , whining and wheedling , ‘ old Mother , this , make him fall in love with me , ’ ‘ old Mother , that , he 's a good man , I love him , but he beats me and goes with other women . ’ |
| 11 | Then she raised her face to me and said with sad seriousness , |
| 12 | However , women will have to be more alert in future in view of the growing violence against them and increase in sexual attacks . |
| 13 | And so we had discussions with them and I can tell you , you know , it was at least six months before the consultants ever made any specific move to introduce the system as such er because of our overtures to them , because of the fact that we asked regularly to meet them and to consult on various points . |
| 14 | Their wings are often swept forward slightly although they can close them and dive at tremendous speeds ( Figure 9 ) . |
| 15 | These women do not feel called to the seclusion of their sisters inside the enclosure , who never leave their convent , but feel called to serve them and act as essential intermediaries between the cloistered nuns and the world . |
| 16 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |
| 17 | He made his way through them and turned into steep Hanover Lane . |
| 18 | She made an effort and pulled herself together , drawing away from them and saying with great dignity and a careful enunciation of her words , ‘ You must not q-quarrel , you two . |
| 19 | Magnus and the Alsatian , attracted by the noise , came running over and began leaping up at them and barking in wild excitement , their panting mouths leaving clouds in the chill air . |
| 20 | Their presence is still obvious around the city , in statues and monuments , in buildings used by them and restored for other purposes now , and at the church they attended , St Paul 's in the Jewellery Quarter . |
| 21 | And that is exactly how they look — like things that jump out of the dark and land without a body feeling them and burrow into living flesh , flesh they have numbed with preliminary injections , and … suck . |
| 22 | vitrified materials , such as glass itself or slag from metallurgical processes . |
| 23 | Which is a long and irrelevant preamble to saying it 's an obvious priority , and more congenial , to write to you and acknowledge with warm thanks and much acclamation the copy of Litterära Strövtåg i London , which arrived yesterday and is already much browsed-through . |
| 24 | The research project seeks also to compare court officials ' , creditors ' and debtors ' perceptions of the enforcement system itself and to contribute towards sociological understanding of the nature of enforcement processes as an aspect of the legal system neglected in previous socio-legal research . |
| 25 | These will probably range from ephemeral paperbacks to more substantial tomes purchased for your studies at college , as well as others probably given to you as presents on special occasions . |
| 26 | Following mainstream psychology 's prescriptions , it presents itself as committed to good methodology . |
| 27 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 28 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |
| 29 | She really wanted a cup of tea and she knew perfectly well that Glyn would serve her up something that looked like brown shoe polish . |
| 30 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |