Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |
| 2 | But again the government retained extensive administrative powers to give it a free hand in dealing with radical writers and journalists . |
| 3 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |
| 4 | But we can be sure of one thing : before the end of the century we will see the telephone metamorphose into the mobile audio-visual communications centre it has long had the potential to become . |
| 5 | ‘ My aunt lives in Hastings , so my bloody overprotective parents thought it would be OK for me to come to Sussex . |
| 6 | It has been observed , for example , that British firms find it easier to persuade workers to accept redundancies but harder to obtain flexibility of working practices and job demarcations than do their French counterparts . |
| 7 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 8 | For what may be ‘ bossiness ’ in the home can turn out to be a valuable contribution of efficiency and ‘ drive ’ in a different setting , working with a team of strangers , where the usual social restraints keep it under reasonable control . |
| 9 | The assumption that they are not neglected , and that cultural values ensure they will be cared for adequately , has been challenged by Norman . |
| 10 | That sense of disintegration which he always feared was now all around him ; earlier in 1938 , he had told Martin Browne that public events made him feel that he was working against time and that , in any case , the race might be lost . |
| 11 | Police at first used rubber truncheons to prevent them , but then stood back . |
| 12 | Officially it is for ‘ consultations ’ but the usual reliable sources say it follows a series of death threats by white bigots who were displeased when he said the South African-controlled Koevoet paramilitary forces were ‘ on a turkey shoot ’ against Swapo guerrillas . |
| 13 | Pete is a bony Londoner with a sallow but healthy skin and clean floppy fair hair , Ellie an attractive girl in her early twenties , her light greenish hazel almond-shaped eyes showing her to be of mixed blood . |
| 14 | Lizzie Webb 's Eight Minute Workouts tells you to scissor your legs — but that puts too much strain on the lower back and could tear ligaments , says the programme . |
| 15 | So the old tricyclic antidepressants make you know most people get a lot of side effects . |
| 16 | Although the result was generally welcomed as a great triumph for the men , some ETS members and some political groups thought they should have held out for even more concessions . |
| 17 | We do n't export some tertiary services do we ? |
| 18 | They need a few outstanding individuals to lead them and to rally them when they flee . |
| 19 | Apparently some Labour politicians think we 're an electoral liability . |
| 20 | We have I have got I we have produced for you today , some detailed plans showing you what the capacities are of the routes , what the present flows are and what the effects of the new settlement will be upon those capacities . |
| 21 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 22 | And What types of British definitive stamps do you collect these days ? |
| 23 | What this may have suggested to Tolkien is that if the Old English and Old Norse sources agreed that ‘ Earendel ’ was a star , the Old English and medieval German ones agreed he was a messenger of hope to the heathens . |
| 24 | There were some old aunts left her that and that 's like a museum inside it . |
| 25 | With the lack of repeated high crosses to test him last saturday , though , it remains to be seen ; but the signs are good . |
| 26 | The achievements of their monitored sexual athletes led them to prescribe standards of sexual behaviour which were quite unrealistic in terms of ordinary people living normal lives . |
| 27 | I learned , too , that English lesbian feminists expected you to become one of them … you either assimilated or you disintegrated . |
| 28 | Advantage of this can be taken by widely-held public companies to enable them temporarily to freeze the list of those who are entitled to receive an annual dividend or to vote at an annual general meeting . |
| 29 | With this in mind and a few sound nuts to bear it out , move left for Manzoku , onto a blanker patch — one of the more testing sections of the climb — then up and into true ‘ jug-hauling ’ territory and the obvious line . |
| 30 | AND HOW MANY BRONZED LATIN LOVERS DID YOU FIND , EH ? ’ |