Make sentences with the following words and phrases:
intrinsic value (intrinsically valuable), conventional notions, unresolved, domain (domains in life), contents, on a massive scale, fortunate, diverse, occupational, stray away (from the present), immerse, unconstrained, anxieties, regret(s), slot machine, correlated, it is not the case, disentangle, equation, precede, consequences, pervade, ubiquitous.
1. Why gold prices have always been so high? Does gold really have intrinsic value, or is it merely a product of one of the longest-running promotional campaigns?
2. Love and friendship are two different things, but both of them are intrinsically valuable to us.
3. Conventional notions of modernisation are too broad and loose; besides, they tend to engender controversies.
4. Your problems will remain unresolved until you acknowledge them.
5. Career development, as well as other domains in your life, needs good planning.
6. Astrophysics used to be very much a male domain.
7. Can you guess the contents of a parcel by its shape?
8. Quite often, politicians resort to deception on a massive scale to achieve their ends.
9. We were fortunate to escape without serious injury as our car crashed into a lamp post.
10. Big cities are swiftly becoming cosmopolitan, bringing together people from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds. By the way, did you know that, according to the World Atlas, 83% of Dubai’s population are foreign-born?
11. Although occupational mobility is thought to have some upsides, in most cases it is just a “forced response” to economic uncertainty.
12. You would have passed the exam if you hadn’t let your mind stray away from the task.
13. If you are going to make jam from fresh plums, first immerse them in sugar syrup.
14. Unconstrained imagination can take you anywhere you want. But will it be of any use to you?
15. Never let your anxieties get the upper hand.
16. I feel no regret about getting divorced. I regret having got married.
17. How did your brother manage to outsmart a slot machine?
18. According to the survey findings, a respondent’s social well-being is positively correlated with their job satisfaction.
19. Some of us think of salespeople as pushy, teachers as raw-nerved, scientists as boring and poets as being out of touch with the real world, but it is not always the case.
20. While I was clearing out the attic, I tripped over the tangled wires. I tried to disentangle them, but in vain.
21. I didn’t have any difficulty in solving quadratic equations when I was at school / I had no difficulty (in) solving quadratic equations when I was at school.
22. Throughout history, wars have often, but not always been preceded by land disputes.
23. My cousin is too short-tempered to foresee the consequences of his actions.
24. A sense of unease and uncertainty began to pervade the department after Michael’s resignation.
25. Bacteria are ubiquitous: not only do they inhabit every place on Earth, including glaciers and hot springs, but also they can survive in outer space.
© Olga Maksimenko, 2019
