Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British pride themselves on having developed a system of government that has been a model for the rest of the world . |
| 2 | One can not be surprised when , quite apart from reservations in the social worker himself about handling sexual matters , the worker has a strong sense that , if he even tries , his particular behind may mark the end of a long chain of kicks ! |
| 3 | For a start , most dealers were young and ignorant characters who before drifting into their present positions might have been on the dole , or at University , or in menial office jobs , at which time they probably did n't even know what stocks and shares were . |
| 4 | But that was as far as you could go and often he became in a rather dubious position himself through doing that sort of thing . |
| 5 | This relationship underlies some important negative arguments which by citing certain claims to the effect that human beings can not , as they may suppose , live in a certain way , lead to the conclusion that certain ethical goals or ideals are unrealistic and should be revised . |
| 6 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 7 | During Andrew and Fergie 's wedding preparations in June , Charles causes raised eyebrows himself by appearing completely uncaring when Diana faints at the opening of the Expo exhibition in Vancouver . |
| 8 | Some horse owners try to correct this major imbalance themselves by adding bone meal to youngsters ' diets . |
| 9 | Well more fool you for letting him |
| 10 | ‘ He 's too busy preening himself on acquiring the prettiest serving-maid for miles around . |
| 11 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 12 | I think that it is n't a general skill it at needs to be commented on , I think that it needs to commented on I think that it ought to be commented on in the comment box . |
| 13 | From time to time , you should delete unwanted entries from your manual log of files and the unwanted files themselves from working disks . |
| 14 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 15 | CBHPs grew in an era of popular organizing by both church and secular organizations which in adopting a structural or liberational approach were clearly anti-government in character . |
| 16 | Neither they nor the local relief committees were given any remit whatsoever with regard to how food should be dispensed or who was eligible to receive it . |
| 17 | 3.2 Should the Company be prevented for any reason whatsoever from completing the Work in the time agreed in Schedule I then the Publisher after giving the Company reasonable notice may commission the completion of the Work by another writer on terms that the Publisher shall consider fair to all parties and the terms in Schedule II shall be altered accordingly or the Publisher may withdraw from the Agreement . |
| 18 | Nearly one-fifth of the researchers failed to produce any papers whatsoever after completing their research , and there are significant differences between universities in the proportions of unproductive researchers . |
| 19 | The Manpower Services Commission 's YTS , launched in 1983 , is an official initiative on a very large scale , aimed at mitigating the crisis in vocational training by provision of a ‘ permanent bridge between school and work ’ for any young person who on leaving school does not find herself/himself a job or entry to full-time education . |
| 20 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 21 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 22 | Member Johnny Day of Bexhill , envies the other member who after complaining to the Diary that his service must have been a dream , was subsequently contacted by old colleagues . |
| 23 | In addition to fully appreciating the significance and context of much of the material they wanted to use , pupils also intended to create new material themselves by acting roles as if they were there at the time . |
| 24 | It was a long walk , almost a mile each way and as we neared the Lodge Gates , I would look over the Cemetery wall at old tombstones , bearing Christian names which to seemed so strange , Ezekiel , Zachariah , Obidiah and many similar . |
| 25 | Organisations such as Gamblers Anonymous concern themselves with piecing together the casualties of addiction . |
| 26 | It is clear that over the past year everyone in has worked extremely hard and for long hours . |