Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a continuous process , and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them rather than for the other department next door . |
| 2 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 3 | The international economy consists of relations between these national entities and is shaped by them rather than by a world system which dominates and determines national conditions . |
| 4 | but I had n't yet realized that the answers had to come from me rather than from the therapist . |
| 5 | ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad . |
| 6 | Some of the activities and resources are such that the parties engage or wish to engage in them or possess them only because of the conflict . |
| 7 | Timmy would spend hours happily banging them together or against the bars or , as now , slobbering against one of the stones in an attempt to get it into his mouth . |
| 8 | Squeeze them together and on an outward breath let them go . |
| 9 | But the girl remembered Ramsey taking the evacuees round him in the children 's corner , and sitting on one of the low chairs meant for a child , and talking to them naturally and with an obvious pleasure . |
| 10 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 11 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 12 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 13 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 14 | Doing the diet with someone else or in a small group will help you to be successful . |
| 15 | ‘ Madam , I confess myself deeply grieved that you should judge one an enemy who has ever served you and yours faithfully and to the utmost of his ability , ’ he said sorrowfully — and the prince , watching the scene with avid interest , expected to see tears well from his eyes . |
| 16 | ‘ In the end I asked him not to bet with me anymore because of the size and frequency of his bets . ’ |
| 17 | I interviewed them individually and in a separate room . |
| 18 | The Ford driver gave nothing away and for a moment it looked as if there would be a confrontation with a juggernaut coming from London . |
| 19 | Nobody inside or outside the administration is making a good job of selling the tax . |
| 20 | Gary Speed and Rod Wallace are both very good at what I would term ‘ reflex volleys ’ where the ball comes to them quickly or from an awkward angle , but perhaps not so good when they have time to think about it . |
| 21 | " Mother Benedicta told me yesterday that in a year or two I 'm to go to the village of Yelton . |
| 22 | Commenting on ( 167a ) and ( 167b ) , he observes that only oblige can be followed by a " resultative structure " , whereas make " supposes a concomitance between causation and the actualization of the effect being caused , which forces the latter to refer to the operation itself rather than to the state which results from it " . |
| 23 | France in particular had resented the fact that Hallstein had first raised the question of greater budgetary powers for the Parliament in the assembly itself rather than in the Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | They argue that the reasons for underdevelopment in any given Third World country lie mainly within the country itself rather than in the position of the country within any particular part of the global capitalist system . |
| 25 | Such development planning commits the school to improvement and to constructive competition against itself rather than against the neighbouring school . |
| 26 | It lives not for itself alone but as a part of a whole . |
| 27 | I read in the paper about the gales where you are , and I wish I could magic you away and into the warm front room of our house . |
| 28 | It is worth mentioning the spread of opinion — and it would be easy to enlarge it — because his was that rare character which stamped itself effortlessly and in the same way on every sort of company . |
| 29 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 30 | She picked up another letter , and again read aloud : ‘ I think of you often and of the happy times we had at The Hall , and they were happy times . |