Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could people be made to change their durable possessions as if by the whims of fashion ? |
| 2 | The aim is to assess specific proposals for and different scenarios of European police co-operation against the standards of efficiency , accountability and the respect for individual rights . |
| 3 | Until recently , you could sit on a Shetland cliff-top in summer and watch the sea-birds — terns , kittiwakes , gulls , auks and sometimes shag — feeding in concentrated groups on or just under the surface of the sea . |
| 4 | Henceforth the Justices of the Forest were for the most part great barons , who often held extensive estates in or near the forests they administered . |
| 5 | These constantly circulating racial stereotypes together with the resurgence of racist political activities in and out of Parliament , ensured that common sense attitudes towards ‘ race ’ focused on Blacks as problems , needing control . |
| 6 | The air-gargoyles gently sucked and puffed the aromatic smoke into strange curlicues as if sketching the features of potential daemons which might lurk outside the hull . |
| 7 | Many people have strong views on whether or not the nationalized industries have been a success story . |
| 8 | The number of patients with abnormal biological and nutritional indices before and after the trial were similar in both treatment groups ( Table III ) . |
| 9 | Specifically , there was the idea of intervention ; historic doubts about and antipathy towards European colonialism ; corresponding commitment to self-determination and , above all , an impressive self-confidence founded on US power , a resurgence of Wilsonian ideals , and a belief that the principles of the Atlantic Charter and those of the UN should at least inform if they did not determine the foreign policies of the US . |
| 10 | Her hands were splayed across his broad shoulders as if she would push him away , and for some reason she could n't seem to relax them . |
| 11 | Miss Phoebe noticed and pinched herself together , the tip of her tongue wetting her dry lips as if to help words to slide out more easily , but before they came , her sister was saying loudly : |
| 12 | Eight months on and little has changed — if anything it is rather worse . |
| 13 | Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases . |
| 14 | Representative traces before and after the induction of LTP are illustrated above the graph . |
| 15 | It sounds convincing but , as I have already noted , most people who know a particular species well quickly develop a good intuitive sense from an animal 's bodily and facial postures of whether it is likely to attack or escape . |
| 16 | Human resources since 1900 ( Professor R Floud , Birkbeck College , London ) : ageing and its implications for savings , pensions , housing , health care and education ; health , morbidity and productivity ; secular changes in the structure of the labour force and technological change , unemployment , training , and labour mobility ; economic influences on and effects of family formation and the size and structure of the population ; historical perspectives on the operation of labour markets ; long-run problems of the welfare state . |
| 17 | It will be entering into contracts to both buy and sell specific currencies on or between specific dates . |
| 18 | It was claimed in 1721 that more than 7,000 journeymen had : … lately entered into a combination to raise their wages , and leave off working an hour sooner than they used to do ; and for the better carrying on their design , have subscribed their respective names in books … at the several houses of call or resort ( being public houses in and about London ) where they use ; and collect several considerable sums of money to defend any prosecutions against them . |
| 19 | In many modern machines the stress and strain values are collected digitally and processed by a small computer to give direct values of and tan — . |
| 20 | Bradford is unusual among British cities in that the largest group of Caribbeans in the city are not Jamaicans , but Dominicans . |
| 21 | The fact that a power has no legal source does not render it unreviewable by the High Court if there are sound reasons for and no good reasons against such review . |
| 22 | Sham fed acid output was measured for 60 minutes ( 30 minutes during and 30 minutes after feeding ) . |
| 23 | Dimethylsulphoxide ( Wake Pure Chemical Co , Osaka ) at a dose of 550 mg/kg diluted in 0.5 ml of physiological saline was administered by intraperitoneal injection 30 minutes before and three hours after indomethacin to keep DMSO at a sufficiently high concentration to force efficient scavenging of hydroxyl radicals . |
| 24 | The change must have taken place long before Ediacaran times for when those rocks were deposited the fundamental invertebrate divisions were already established . |
| 25 | One of the main tasks of the EC is to assimilate commercial activities in and between the twelve member states to commercial activities within a single state . |
| 26 | There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis . |
| 27 | This example is an interesting one because different people have different views about whether or not it is in fact " illegal " . |
| 28 | This authority has been doubted because of the conflict that would arise were the receiver and the directors to have different views on whether an action should be brought and also on the handling of any counterclaim . |
| 29 | On the telephone , I was greeted with a very friendly and hearty ‘ Well … well … well ! ’ and we chatted for a few minutes as if there had been no break in our contact . |
| 30 | A consequence of these different attitudes to and use of coin design was that the designs of some coinages offer a very limited repertoire . |