Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They exhibit to an exaggerated degree that intolerance and sense of unease we all show when faced with information or experience which we can not readily assimilate and ‘ make sense of ’ ( as we say ) by fitting it into our existing knowledge and categories . |
| 2 | One form of the argument makes direct use of the extreme sense of wonder which we all feel when confronted with highly complicated machinery , like the detailed perfection of the echo-location equipment of bats . |
| 3 | How will that fine shirt look tomorrow all rent and stained with blood ? |
| 4 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 5 | An example of terms routinely implied in contracts of sale is that where goods are ordered from a manufacturer who makes such goods , it is implied that the goods are the manufacturer 's own make and supplied under his normal label for the brand ( see Johnson v Raylton ( 1881 ) 7 QBD 438 ; Scaliaris v E Ofverberg and Co ( 1921 ) 37 TLR 307 ) . |