Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the available reservoirs of good sense and good humour vary too with the class to be taught , and the short-term or long-term history the teacher has had with it . |
| 2 | The very radical autonomy of modernist cultural forms makes their social or social-historical explanation an extremely difficult pursuit . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly this is an excellent text for giving the first- or second-year undergraduate the all-round flavour of the subject . |
| 4 | It was not a situation which worried him ; as he told George Baker , the best position for any poet was to have enough financial security to view in a detached and unenvious way the temporary reputations of more fashionable writers . |
| 5 | said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release . |
| 6 | Whatever view he decides to take , he will in effect be indicating in a clear and unequivocal way the weight that should be attached to the objective of long term landscape protection which is so central to the purposes of National Park designation . |
| 7 | Darwinism never received a welcome in France , where in place of Darwin 's historical and probabilistic method the way forward seemed to be in laboratory physiology . |
| 8 | Sure the world needs more love in it ; sure , the brutal and uncaring hold the reins ; sure , some people have no choice about having their lives wasted — but I celebrate the brutal and wasteful in music because I know what fascinates me , and it 's not this ghastly New Wave soul with-the-one-saxophone-tacked-on . |
| 9 | It was not long since the Austrian Nestroy had written his entertaining and embittered farce The Talisman ( 1840 ) , in which the fortunes of a poor red-haired man are dramatically changed by the acquisition , and subsequent loss , of a black wig . |
| 10 | Third , given a trained and skilled operator the productivity gains and composition power of a desktop publishing system eclipse anything that is available from traditional vendor of Third Wave technology . |
| 11 | They 'd finished their show and were coming back down to the damp and squalid cellar the management refused to redecorate because of its ‘ classic atmosphere ’ . |
| 12 | The bourgeois household , however , was merely the nucleus of the larger family connection within which the individual operated : ‘ the Rothschilds ’ , ‘ the Krupps ’ , or for that matter ‘ the Forsytes ’ , who make so much of nineteenth-century social and economic history an essentially dynastic affair . |
| 13 | At the upper end of the social and economic scale the mood of protest has been captured most effectively by the small but respected Republican Party . |
| 14 | It first sets in a social and theological context the desire of the unknown nobleman to devote himself to God without the distractions that arise from involvement with secular responsibilities . |
| 15 | The search to find and restore the Polish state led Polish politicians to mistake the restoration of the state for a decision as to the social and political form the state should take . |
| 16 | I have noted above that in both social and historical linguistics the position of the observer is crucial and is relevant to the interpretative phase in that the observer may affect the data in some way . |
| 17 | Based on this theoretical and empirical approach the consensus view would be that not only do increases in the money supply cause changes in the price level but fluctuations in the money supply are a major source of economic instability ; both can have an impact nationally and internationally . |
| 18 | With British and German encouragement a French protectorate had been established over Tunis ( Treaty of Bardo , 12 May 1881 ) . |
| 19 | In a lively and entertaining performance the audience was treated to a graphic description of the history of man 's relationship with chemicals derived from plants . |
| 20 | I will bring my hon. Friend 's point about nursery education to the attention of my right hon. and noble Friend the Paymaster General . |
| 21 | My right hon. and noble Friend the Lord Chancellor has recently made statements , and was on the radio this morning , about the review that he is conducting of how court procedures can be improved . |
| 22 | My right hon. and noble Friend the Minister of State also had discussions with Mrs. Ogata on 7 February . |
| 23 | That gave the right hon. and learned Gentleman every opportunity to say that the increases would be phased , but what did he say ? |
| 24 | For instance , in the cultural and moral area the most marked changes have occurred in family life ; in the role of , and relationship between , the sexes ; in the position of women ; in the attitude to established morality and tradition and in attitudes to authority generally . |
| 25 | Since 1983 , changes in social security regulations have given private-sector providers of residential and nursing-home care the confidence to expand because a subsidy was available for those residents without means or who ran out of money to pay the fees . |
| 26 | A salient characteristic of the internal structure of' the elite is that it is rational , in the sense that it is structured so as to achieve in a purposeful and conscious manner the objectives of the elite as a whole . |
| 27 | This exhibited in an outward and visible form the power of the papacy as it had developed by the late twelfth century . |
| 28 | Under West German and French pressure the NATO countries made an important decision in 1967 to change the alliance 's function . |
| 29 | A new R. A. F. camp , to which I was duly sent , had just been opened and was still partly empty when one day a new batch of prisoners was announced . |
| 30 | Previously , the Romans had tried to bring their civil calendar , which like many ancient calendars was based on the moon , into line with the astronomical year based on the sun by adopting a system involving an additional or intercalary month every second year . |