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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some horse owners try to correct this major imbalance themselves by adding bone meal to youngsters ' diets . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's too busy preening himself on acquiring the prettiest serving-maid for miles around . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From time to time , you should delete unwanted entries from your manual log of files and the unwanted files themselves from working disks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Organisations such as Gamblers Anonymous concern themselves with piecing together the casualties of addiction . |
| 19 | It is clear that over the past year everyone in has worked extremely hard and for long hours . |