Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emphasis on technical activities and on what is often , essentially , administration implicitly denies that staff are an asset . |
| 2 | It is right that we should consider tonight the question how we enhance the democracy , responsibility and accountability of the European institutions and of our own Ministers to the national Parliament . |
| 3 | D. N. Pritt in his autobiography told of his many political cases and of one which ‘ came before a judge of great experience and knowledge , so bitterly opposed to anything left-wing that he could scarcely have given a fair trial if he had tried ’ . |
| 4 | To his right were stacked stationery and pens , jigsaws , and wool , needles , scissors and assorted oddments and to his left sweets and bottles of pop . |
| 5 | So I want to , first of all , in presenting this report to remind you of the importance of that link and for us to encourage its development . |
| 6 | He saw that honesty and within it somehow , a total lack of the cynicism that had marred his own life . |
| 7 | These techniques often have rather arcane titles but in their simple forms , they boil down to physical restraint . |
| 8 | The final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and its refined dexterity in handling small objects presented the evolving ego with its greatest opportunity and with its greatest challenge where direction of the manual musculature was concerned . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend is wise and experienced , both at a European level and in her constituency . |
| 10 | You get the interest by inviting good speakers to talk on the right subjects and by your format variety and , wherever possible , the right kind of sparkle . |
| 11 | His face was equally extraordinary , pale and soft , smooth like a young girl 's , with pursed , prim lips and above them a slightly crooked nose . |
| 12 | It was a prime-ministerial cabinet in all but name and plunged instantly into the economic blizzard which engulfed the new Labour administration and with which , initially , it coped so inadequately . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom pointed out that , by letter of 1 March 1983 , it informed the Commission of the problem created by the registration of Spanish vessels and of its intentions in that regard and asked it to put forward measures which would enable the problem to be resolved . |
| 14 | Restricted access to benefits for the young has , paradoxically , led both to more of them being ejected from parental homes and to them having less to live on when they are . |
| 15 | Since all the coefficients are estimated simultaneously , the estimated model ( 6.16 ) , which has all the cross-equation restrictions imposed , can be compared with another model which has the same variables on the right-hand side of each equation but in which the cross-equation restrictions are relaxed ; that is , the coefficients on each variable are freely estimated as where are equation errors . |
| 16 | It embraced all the other European nations and in them , however its preponderance might vary , agriculture was dominant . |
| 17 | Fenella , moving ahead , saw , as Nuadu had not been able to see , that there were tiny cracks in the walls , from which the glowing heat threw out threads of fiery light and through which little angry hisses of steam continually escaped . |
| 18 | Otters are very shy animals and for their peace of mind require an undisturbed stretch of riverbank , preferably several miles in length . |
| 19 | His family had always been Delhi jewellers — his ancestors had served the Mughal emperors and before them the Delhi Sultans . |
| 20 | He was paid for that seal and for his unrivalled knowledge . |
| 21 | Another study found that poorly differentiated solid carcinomas showed only weak staining and in our small sample a poorly differentiated tumour would significantly decrease the apparent sensitivity . |
| 22 | In others he will have virtually no guidance , beyond looking at the relatively few determinate sentences for attempted murder and considering what adjustment should be made for the fact that death ensued . |
| 23 | Besides , with GEMU , which no East German politician dare oppose , East Germany will already have yielded its monetary sovereignty to the West German Bundesbank and with it a lot of its room for political manoeuvre . |
| 24 | I was taking Venturous alongside the jetty arm at Lowestoft on day to await the road bridge opening when Marty Stone , our second engineer , poised on the gunwale for a jump ashore to take the ropes , slipped on the wet rail and to my horror disappeared over the bow . |
| 25 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 26 | In too many instances a player 's schedule is determined just as much by the need to honour commercial contracts or by their agents , as by what is best for him or her . |
| 27 | The Minister of State must make the Minister aware of the state of Scottish agriculture and of its importance to the Scottish economy . |
| 28 | Wycliffe was impressed by her seemingly transparent honesty and by her spontaneity that had something refreshingly youthful about it . |
| 29 | Such thoughts do not immediately exercise the minds of farmers , but they are becoming concerned by the rises in the price of fertilizer and other oil-based inputs and by their own powerlessness in the face of ‘ agribusiness ’ corporations , which was referred to in Chapter 3 . |
| 30 | ROS : To sum up : your father , whom you love , dies , you are his heir , you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped on to this throne and into his sheets , thereby offending both legal and natural practice . |