Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of his energies were directed to bringing about the union of the Scottish and English parliaments and he died in 1707 on the eve of his aim being realised . |
| 2 | ( 7 ) The whole report must be written in such clear and precise language that it is able to withstand cross-examination by Counsel . |
| 3 | She had a clear and frightening premonition that she would not be able to manage it . |
| 4 | The tropical forests can provide a home for such a specialized and diverse fauna because they undergo very little seasonal change . |
| 5 | They agonised over how their children would feel in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings as they , too , were interrogated . |
| 6 | He calculated that he would be able to meet all his daily and official duties if he devoted his entire time to them , and abandoned any attempt at his own writing , but this he was determined not to do . |
| 7 | As Shalev ( 1981 ) points out , comparative analysis not only raises substantively interesting and important questions but it also offers a natural and fruitful avenue for the advance of the discipline as a whole . |
| 8 | Erm but I , you know if you said I think you see , I think what Colin 's raising is a very interesting and important issue and I I naturally you know as a senior manager I 'm concerned about it . |
| 9 | In November 1978 , DATEC issued further proposals in which it affirmed its philosophy that colleges should have the maximum opportunity to develop courses which they consider to be most appropriate to educational , commercial and professional needs as they are able to identify and define them . |
| 10 | Yet paradoxically in 1956 it was the British government which chose to embark upon a high-risk and impulsive policy once it believed that fundamental national interests were at stake . |
| 11 | After being degraded to the level of a vegetable market , the Piece Hall was rightly recognized as an architectural and industrial monument that it was important to preserve , and part of it now houses the town 's Textile Museum , which is open throughout the year . |
| 12 | It allows you to alternate between a high and low route and it 's easy to extend the walk or take short cuts . |
| 13 | We were so frozen by the ghostly and unnatural sight that we let the hound go past us , and we could not move . |
| 14 | He had done the same for old and sick people when he lived in the Borinage , so it was nothing new . |
| 15 | I have always been particularly grateful to Fred for this generous and helpful boost when I was at the crossroads . |
| 16 | Robyn remembered his free and easy hand as he had poured her wine . |
| 17 | They want to be in a free and democratic Iraq where they can vote for their leaders and have a democratically accountable Parliament . |
| 18 | It is because I feel that the impulse that is behind the work of the Labour Party is mainly the same longing for the time when man [ sic ] will be able to live in free and equal comradeship that I find myself in line with that party . |
| 19 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 20 | ‘ They are entertaining and patient creatures and I get a lot of pleasure from them . |
| 21 | ‘ These are from the Northern and Southern Railway Company , ’ he said , ‘ to say thank you for the brave and sensible thing that you did to save the train . ’ |
| 22 | The old slums in Wallace Street have gone now , replaced nearby by a small , neat council estate of flats and maisonettes ; across the main road there 's a sixties estate of dour concrete so riddled with damp and concrete corrosion that it may be demolished by the time this book is published . |
| 23 | What should be said is that there is still a most definite need for research in some neglected , technical areas , but more particularly in integrating the social and economic factors as they occur in a local situation . |
| 24 | The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century . |
| 25 | And with it such social and political change as they shall not understand . |
| 26 | She deserted her artist 's studio in Chelsea to work for her mother 's Women 's Social and Political Union when it transferred from Manchester to London in 1905 and became honorary secretary . |
| 27 | Willis 's work also shares Robson 's view of courts as framers of judicial policy on social and political questions and it contains a number of pointed criticisms of the normativist style . |
| 28 | South Africa is in a state of social and political flux as it enters a new non-racial era — yet it is still the favoured venue to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 29 | The grave social and political crises that they all face will prove a severe test for their new , untried assemblies . |
| 30 | It is , of course , of great social and political importance that we examine the constitution and reproduction of social classes . |