Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reform ( or ‘ rehabilitation ’ ) is the idea that punishment can reduce the incidence of crime by taking a form which will improve the individual offender 's character or behaviour and make him or her less likely to re-offend in future . |
| 2 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 3 | While it is usually difficult to hide the evidence that an accident has occurred , with an incident it can be only too easy in a large proportion of the cases to pretend that nothing very extraordinary has happened . |
| 4 | She says that its almost impossible to live on state benefits at the moment and to cut them would be criminal . |
| 5 | Also like , why , why , do people want to find love ? , like is it maybe lulling them into a false sense of si security erm and I think that it is really important as like one woman said earlier on that its really important to love yourself first , cos how can you give any body any thing |
| 6 | This adds a bit of fun to the proceedings , but the same questions crop up repetitively , so its quite easy to cheat by remembering the answers after playing for only a short time . |
| 7 | She supposed that she wrongly still thought of pub meals in terms of bread and cheese or pasties . |
| 8 | Their last , eponymously-titled record pointed the way , but having since roped in REM 's Peter Buck to handle production chores , this Minneapolis five-piece are a far more consistent proposition — albeit one still inclined to take five and freak out . |
| 9 | Their last , eponymously-titled record pointed the way , but having since roped in REM 's Peter Buck to handle production chores , this Minneapolis five-piece are a far more consistent proposition — albeit one still inclined to take five and freak out . |
| 10 | If you are going to try to convince a reader that something wildly unlikely has taken place then one useful tool at your command is to produce a story that sweeps the reader along from incident to incident in a headlong tumble . |
| 11 | The figures for deaths from leukaemia seem to back up the prediction from dose estimates that something very serious happened at Windscale in 1957 . |
| 12 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 13 | The truth was that as the days went by and the heavy rain showed no sign of slackening for very long it became clear that something very frightening had begun to happen . |
| 14 | ‘ You are beautiful , ’ he greeted her with a beaming smile , and raised her flattened spirits , even if she did suppose that he most likely greeted every date that way . |
| 15 | It was not until they were coming back , with the required tins of paint and thick brushes amongst the rest of the shopping , that anything really unpleasant took place . |
| 16 | It can hardly be said that anything very surprising emerges in the pupils ’ criticism of teachers . |
| 17 | For a long time she waited , and nothing more terrible came to enter that silence than her own dark imaginings . |
| 18 | The rope was attached to the tree , the crew set up on the bank , and we got ready to do three or four runs past the camera with Matt and me so busy arguing about baptising the Indians that we could n't see the danger behind us which the audience could see for themselves . |
| 19 | The cost per head will be £5.00 ( which allows for a contribution to NCT funds if enough of us go ) and its obviously sensible to arrange for us to share 4–5 cars . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a short play and its very hard to find a natural break in the action , unlike some of Shakespeare 's other works . |
| 21 | This is the state of affairs at a normal sports centre , where everyone else seems to be skilled and athletic and you too embarrassed to start . |
| 22 | I do n't know why I bother though cos you never flipping win anything |
| 23 | We thought he would be off home , and none too keen to make another wasted journey . ’ |
| 24 | This is inevitable in a subject of such complexity , and one so difficult to explain in simple terms . |
| 25 | The note at para 25/6/2 of the White Book says " it is a sensible practice for the medical men on both sides to arrange a joint examination " , which is clearly a desirable practice and one more likely to lead to agreed medical evidence . |
| 26 | And something quite miraculous happened : surgeons were able to restore her sight with a brilliant new surgical technique . |
| 27 | Poor unlucky soul ; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , and something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to . |
| 28 | Indeed , if something rather special fails to come your way in November or early December , your must be very hard to please — or resisting the irresistible . |
| 29 | ‘ I — we — thought it a good idea at the time , with the late closing and it so hard to get people off the premises — and all the cleaning up to be done afterwards … ‘ |
| 30 | The same is true for France , Australia and anyone else willing to take on the Springboks . |