Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warm thanks are due to my many colleagues within the information industry and to those organisations who have been so helpful in providing guidance , views , information and explanation . |
| 2 | Personally I am not alarmed and , unless they are upset by their own extremists , it would not surprise me were they to remain in office for some time , during which they may do considerable good . |
| 3 | As Kenneth Clark states in his classic study The Nude : ‘ [ Artists ] have found it easier to compose harmoniously the larger units of a woman 's torso ; they have been grateful for its smoother transitions , and above all they have discovered analogies with satisfying geometrical forms , the oval , the ellipsoid and the sphere ’ . |
| 4 | Data are extremely scarce , but Heath ( 1981 ) gives evidence to show how far women are disadvantaged by their limited opportunities in the labour market . |
| 5 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 6 | Her success had been due to her own qualities ; and she had even received national recognition for some of her work . |
| 7 | I am grateful to my ministerial colleagues in Italy and Spain and their officials for their constructive and helpful approach . |
| 8 | While councillors are representative of their local communities they are certainly not socially representative of the population . |
| 9 | He was aware of the accusation frequently levelled at doctors of his sort , that they are charming to their private patients who pay them , while treating like so many malfunctioning machines their National Health patients who merely pay the state . |
| 10 | Critics of a more open approach to young children 's learning often cite the Plowden Report ( 1966 ) as the source and inspiration of all that has been wrong with our primary schools . |
| 11 | Some are afraid of their own tears and the abyss that would open in their lives if they once allowed themselves to make contact with their own pain . |
| 12 | Designed in San Francisco by Paul Chandler , these guitars are faithful to their '60s roots . |
| 13 | They are conspicuous for their conciliatory terms : although they insist as firmly as ever on the prohibition of lay investiture , they make no mention of homage . |
| 14 | Through the witness of the apostles and the witness of the Spirit ( now seen as Accuser ) , men are shown that they are wrong with their moralistic ideas of sin : sin is essentially the refusal to commit themselves to Jesus , God 's saviour . |
| 15 | Here are some of their exclusive tips for hairing down mountains with minimum control : |
| 16 | ‘ Look , here are some of its recent scratches . |
| 17 | Such questions indicate how complex and deeply rooted are some of our negative attitudes to the aged . |
| 18 | If I 'm g go over things that Dennis covered or that have already been covered this morning , I , I will be brief a and I just wanted to say these are some of my personal views on the quality initiatives . |
| 19 | This we must do , we 've got ta help our unemployed members because some of those who are unemployed have been some of our best fighters and they 're still in there fighting despite the fact they have n't their jobs . |
| 20 | The three woodpeckers are different from their nearest relatives in Java and Borneo . |
| 21 | But in so far as I achieve awareness from your viewpoint I feel the pull towards your goals , and even when I resist , I do so very much as I push away inclinations of my own which are dangerous to my long-term ambitions ; a choice between your goals and mine belongs among my choices of ends . |
| 22 | The struggle to understand everything showed clearly on her face , and slowly , surely , she found a ray of hope in the mess , something to compensate for the painful discovery that she 'd been ignorant of her own roots . |
| 23 | The only occasions on which you will have to pay anything are if you take advantage of some of our other services linked to the Current Account , which are subject to their own costs . |
| 24 | will largely be seen after the New Year 's Day holiday so essentially you could still that the first regional survey to have been largely compiled of the results drawn er er from the beginning of this year and , and the , and the , and you know you see some reference in the press release to estimates based o on our survey of manufacturing employment er er for the regions , those figures are consistent with our national figures on , on the trend in manufacturing employment and our short term forecast which as a matter of fact was publ published at the end of last month so results . |
| 25 | Before I comment on the Bill in any detail , I must declare a possible future interest with British Rail in activities that are unrelated to my parliamentary duties . |
| 26 | Reportedly they are delighted by their new surroundings . |
| 27 | Fossil representatives of lampreys and hagfishes may be found in the Upper Carboniferous ( 230Myr BP ) where , in most preserved details , they are similar to their modern counterparts . |
| 28 | Research shows that nine out of 10 people , or thereabouts , are similar to their Whiskas-guzzling cats in preferring something tasty . |
| 29 | They appear to be insensitive to semantic and iconic similarity but differ on decrement in performance with signs which are similar in their physical components ( i.e. handshape , movement etc . ) . |
| 30 | We can see that the economic aims of Thatcherism have been contradictory to its moral postures . |