Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should not feel embarrassed or that our time may be wasted . ’ |
| 2 | There 's an effigy on the Black Prince 's tomb at Canterbury Cathedral , just like this except that his hands are together in prayer … ’ |
| 3 | Such discussions with the Home Office that I have had on the question have made it clear that when their guidelines to the police are finally formulated the limited use of investigative hypnosis will be exclusively in the hands of trained and independent professionals such as clinical psychologists . |
| 4 | Aziz told the UN Security Council on March 12 that although his government was ready to co-operate in providing details of its weapons programme , it " will not bargain over [ Iraq 's ] independence [ and ] its people 's freedom " . |
| 5 | Jerry Rawlings , Chairman of the PNDC and Head of State , from contesting the forthcoming presidential elections , on the grounds that his father was Scottish and that his allegiance to Ghana could therefore not be taken for granted , and because charges were still outstanding against him arising from the coups in May 1979 , June 1981 and December 1981 [ see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ] . |
| 6 | But I am prepared to accept that her delusions of grandeur are a form of psychosis connected with ageing and that her refusal to consider retirement springs from an awareness that it is she , not the country , who is in danger of falling to bits is she desists from hyper-activity . |
| 7 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 8 | Hansom believes that your species , Australopithecus tanzaniensis , was our ancestor , and Luckey maintains that this belief is wrong and that our ancestor was another species of the genus Homo . |
| 9 | She repeatedly says that inflation is too high and that its reduction must be the Government 's overriding priority . |
| 10 | Former Prime Minister and leader since 1961 of the Freedom Movement of Iran ( FMI ) , Mehdi Bazargan , on March 30 and April 14 claimed in Tehran that the elections had not been free and that his group had not been allowed to participate . |
| 11 | Light though his touch was , she found it infinitely exciting and when his fingertip reached the centre of her lips , she opened them and felt his finger on her tongue . |
| 12 | To outsiders it seemed that the regime was becoming unstable and that its survival appeared more and more doubtful . |
| 13 | May I take the liberty of reminding the right hon. Gentleman of his relative 's famous quote in relation to his own personal position : that each man 's life is like a diary in which we set out to write one account and finish up writing something different and that our most humble moment comes when we compare what we have written with that which we intended to write . |
| 14 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |
| 15 | ( a ) that the body complies with Rules 3–6 , 8 , 9 and 22 and that its members comply with Rules 5 and 6 ; and |
| 16 | ( a ) that the body complies with Rules 36 , 8 , 9 and 22 and that its members comply with Rules 5 and 6 ; |
| 17 | Creggan could see that he was afraid and that his fear was making him terribly uncertain . |
| 18 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 19 | The press had no right to pry and push and sneak about in their private lives , but it was undeniable that if their marriage were to fail , it would open up an entire can of constitutional worms that the monarchy could well do without . |
| 20 | We are firmly convinced that regional loyalty to Palatine Ales is such that if our beers were replaced by Anglo-Welsh products there would be a significant overall reduction in sales . |
| 21 | Like the Biblical Shunamite woman , whose faith in God was such that when her only son died she answered the prophet Elisha 's question ‘ Is all well with the child ? ’ with ‘ It is well ’ , so these women answer ‘ All is well ’ when humanly all is a disaster . |
| 22 | He hesitated ; best not to tell Jared of what Havvie Blaine had been saying of her ; he was fearful that if his brother knew he would do Havvie a mortal injury — Best perhaps to warn Mary Tunstall privately . |
| 23 | I see my own skyline , but I am convinced that when my children or children 's children get there there will be another skyline , another horizon , another dawning , another glorious beckoning from heaven itself . |
| 24 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
| 25 | Will he assure me that my unemployed constituents will no longer be dealt with by faceless bureaucrats but will be dealt with by individuals who are clearly identifiable and that my unemployed constituents will be treated as individuals ? |
| 26 | David , feeling that he was learning nothing at Newtown Comprehensive and that his parents ' lives were increasingly centred on London , took a unilateral decision ; he left Clogau , moved into the family flat in Chelsea and enrolled at Holland Park Comprehensive , the most renowned , free-thinking state school of the day . |
| 27 | Jennings argued that Dicey 's ideas on sovereignty were overly conceptualistic and that his concept of the rule of law was based on an individualistic , laissez-faire philosophy . |
| 28 | The recent history of community care projects has not been encouraging ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 22 ) But this is precisely the sort of area to which research needs to be directed in the immediate future of relative demographic stability , because it is so crucial and because our ignorance of future patterns of demand is so great . |
| 29 | Thoreau told of rising early and when his neighbours woke to mist and rain , he spoke of a clear sunrise . |
| 30 | She could hear the regretful , gentle voice of Mother Francis telling her that life was never meant to be easy and that her best course was to work very hard now and get out of this place in record time . |