Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To such people the world abroad too often resembled a sewer down which credulous Americans were persuaded to pour money only to be surprised when it disappeared without trace . |
| 2 | Wickham showed the photograph just to be sure . |
| 3 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 4 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 6 | We hear talk nowadays about being good Europeans . |
| 7 | Dessie Farrell , one of the few Dublin players to emerge from last with his reputation intact , is back in the side today after being absent for two months through injury . |
| 8 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 9 | He had n't the speed yet to be sure Golden Girl would come about . |
| 10 | He made a grunting noise just to be sure that Gurder heard him . |
| 11 | East Antrim MP Roy Beggs said : ‘ We remain concerned that the cohesion funding soon to be open to the Irish Republic could totally distort the balance between port facilities in the whole island . ’ |
| 12 | I think the approach of parents is very often really quite a simple one erm that they have a number of very well defined expectations of the school and that is as far as one individual parent is concerned , that the parents wants the child to go to the school , he wants that child properly controlled , provided that it 's done in the way in which he particularly approves , and if you have fifteen hundred different parents there might be fourteen hundred and eighty five different techniques at work here , and then he wants the child simultaneously to be successful and happy . |
| 13 | Even their experience of unemployment was different , for they might still have to ‘ work ’ at home instead of being idle . |
| 14 | In his speeches of the first two books Satan shows a tremendous vigour , a responsibility to his followers , an impenetrable spirit , heroic determination never to be weak and inactive and an attractive charm and sophistication in his poetic and commanding words . |
| 15 | So I hope you see , that this Aldershot method which several people have mentioned is is a very effective way of structuring what you do here it can also be used very simply in in a meeting just to be able to put your point across simply but effectively . |
| 16 | On analogy with subject access in social services and housing one might expect the governors to seek the consent of the person compiling the report and for such consent normally to be forthcoming since otherwise the record may clearly be incomplete . |
| 17 | As Gassendi insists in his Objections to Descartes , there is no need forever to be distrustful of them . |
| 18 | Our evidence points to the need both to be sensitive to the many different recipients of public policy and their potentially different views on its effects , and to the need to understand the meaning , to those on the receiving end , of actions taken in the name of public policy . |
| 19 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 20 | Design is about the way a product not only looks , but also functions , and for anybody in manufacturing industry or retailing to say they do n't take an interest in it would be perfectly ludicrous , because at the end of the day it is design that causes a product either to be successful or unsuccessful . |
| 21 | There will be plenty of opportunity later to be euphoric . |
| 22 | But this Anne Mowbray would stop at nothing — she would chance all to be alone with him she loved best in the world ; on one throw of the dice … |
| 23 | The man had every caution given him not a minute before to be careful with the gun , but his time was come as his poor shipmates say and with that they console themselves … |
| 24 | But participant observation you stand the best chance really of being able to check the accuracy of what , th they 're telling you in terms of behaviour and wha , and what people say , and what different people say in those situations over the , so you know . |
| 25 | He is too full of hate even to be afraid , he would have accused him to his face . ’ |
| 26 | Dr R.B. Smith adopts this criterion in his study of West Riding society in the 1530s , but for the 1520s , albeit the genuinely hard cases ( including one assessment as low as £1 per annum ) were few and far between , men of £5 or more per annum tended on the whole either to be designated gentlemen or else can be linked with gentry families . |
| 27 | Pearce lists these as two important qualities for a top manager together with being able to look at a problem and see the two or three key factors . |
| 28 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 29 | So how can John Major claim now to be surprised by them ? — . |
| 30 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |