Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My treatment of intonation is based on the belief that foreign learners of English at advanced levels who may use this course should be given training to make them better able to recognise and copy English intonation ; the only really efficient way to learn to use the intonation of a language is the way a child acquires the intonation of its first language , and the training referred to above should help the adult learner of English to acquire English intonation in a similar ( though much slower ) way — through listening to and talking to English speakers . |
| 2 | He clearly saw that the extended nature of Rommel 's supply lines made them extremely vulnerable to attack and that destruction of port facilities would severely limit his ability to wage war . |
| 3 | Sitting on the tube a largish , overweight man sits under a sign reading ‘ Give up this seat to someone less able to stand than yourself . ’ |
| 4 | An officer who was not himself thus inclined complained that his predecessor ( and friend ) had ‘ considered that the man in charge of the northern area of Masailand should place himself in an atmosphere of utter discomfort ; in short should become a wild man of the west and suffer privations of all kinds . |
| 5 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 6 | Are you really willing to wait if your parents object ? ’ |
| 7 | The advantages of this technique is that it puts less strain on the legs than straight front pointing and the uphill foot ( the one most difficult to flex when flat footing ) is kept horizontal . |
| 8 | Are we sufficiently innovative to sustain and grow our business ? |
| 9 | From the way his eyes kept darting to and fro she guessed that he had something more important to say and that he was waiting until Eleanor was safely out of sight and earshot . |
| 10 | Moreover , just as Moore thought that freedom from the naturalistic fallacy made one more ready to recognize that there is a plurality of basically different sorts of good thing , so Ross thought that freedom from this wrong definition of right and duty in terms of good made one ready to recognize that there is a plurality of grounds of obligation , of which the obligation to produce good and reduce bad is just one , or rather two , for he thinks the duty to prevent bad a distinct , and usually more stringent , duty than to produce good . |
| 11 | Engineers should contribute effectively to risk management within their organisation by doing everything reasonably practicable to ensure that good practice is being followed . |
| 12 | perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and |
| 13 | In order to do this they had to be something very unlikely to happen or they would not be regarded as a novus actus interveniens . |
| 14 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |
| 15 | Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere . |
| 16 | I was an utter martinette about his pronunciation ( he did n't know when I did n't know ) and would make him happily furious insisting that he repeat words over and over again until I was content . |
| 17 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 18 | That they were not prepared to countenance Maxse at his most radical confirms that those ends were indeed Conservative . |
| 19 | Is it wholly chimerical to hope that a newly elected Tory government with an unassailable majority might do its duty , however painful for itself , and take the first steps to reverse this pernicious evil and restore the tried and tested order of our ancestors by which only those fitted to rule have any right to elect the government of this country under the Crown ? |
| 20 | I think it only right to comment that the fact that it is , in a case such as the present , open to a taxpayer to stipulate , if he wishes , that the money shall be repaid if it is found not to be due in pending proceedings , provides another practical reason why a case such as the present is likely to occur only in very rare circumstances indeed . |
| 21 | Why is it so necessary to beatify and live in awe of people because they have a God-given gift that is so wonderful ? |
| 22 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 23 | ‘ Why is it so hard to accept that I could feel all that too ? ’ |
| 24 | Given that these viewpoints and value bases are so antagonistic , and yet rarely made explicit , it is not surprising that different groups find it so hard to trust and respect each other . |
| 25 | Singapore Airlines Ltd has awarded a five-year contract to Datamatics Pvt Ltd of Bombay to write software exclusively for the airline : Datamatics will develop software for reservations , cargo handling and departure control applications , and got the business because the airline found it so hard to recruit and retain computer personnel in Singapore ; no value was revealed . |
| 26 | I 've never known anyone less likely to panic than Hilda . |
| 27 | One of the great difficulties is that many young people find it extremely difficult to admit that they have a problem . |
| 28 | Is it just naive to hope that a voluntary system will work ? |
| 29 | ‘ There has been much talk that Rangers have the title sewn up but we still have 58 points to play for and that makes it ludicrously premature to suggest that the destination of the title is cut and dried , ’ said Brady . |
| 30 | ‘ In a wide position like that , there is n't anyone more difficult to beat than Worthington , ’ said Wilkinson . |