Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | English teachers need to be ready to give careful introductions and support when using texts which might otherwise cause offence to some groups ; for example , if a character with racist attitudes is portrayed , even though the author may not be supporting such attitudes . |
| 32 | As suggested in section 10.5 , insertion of resistance in series with the capacitance C limits the closed-loop gain at high frequencies that satisfy and if the closed-loop Bode plot is like that of with an approach to the open-loop plot at 6 dB per octave , the amplifier is likely to be stable . |
| 33 | In other words , we should always look for the origin of social norms and consider whether the values and expectations reproduced through socialisation serve the interests of any particular group or class . |
| 34 | Thorpe J. found that W. had sufficient understanding to make an informed decision but held that he had jurisdiction to authorise medical treatment without W. 's consent , and he concluded that in view of the medical evidence he should make the order sought . |
| 35 | It is easy to get angry at some of the images produced in the name of sexual gratification and to imagine that the answer to our rage is to ban these images . |
| 36 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 37 | In telephone conversations with BBC TV director Kevin Bishop , 43 , the prince requested a number of his own favourite acts and asked that the show should not , as is usual , overrun . |
| 38 | WACC 's folk media programme revealed that traditional forms of communication can be harnessed for effective social change when adapted and backed by a strong motivation and social consciousness . |
| 39 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 40 | The Exchequer and Audit Departments Act of 1866 ( as slightly amended in 1921 ) created the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and charged him to identify and report upon the public accounts and to ensure that expenditures were authorised by Parliament and supported by the Treasury . |
| 41 | In 1711 he was summoned before the parliamentary commissioners for examining and stating the public accounts and testified that he and his predecessor had regularly paid commission on their contracts to the duke of Marlborough , amounting to some £6,000 a year . |
| 42 | In the early 1960s , it became fashionable to criticize British institutions and to say that this country was lagging behind its European competitors in many aspects of modern life from trade union structure to central heating , from the capacity to sell and provide after-sales service abroad to playing football . |
| 43 | That is , more than to words , ‘ not only semantic and social values but affect and fantasy as well , are bound to images ’ ( De Lauretis 1984 , pp. 8 , 38 ) . |
| 44 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 45 | Bland also discusses the use of the Laplace transform technique in linear viscoelasticity and shows that the solution of a viscoelastic problem can be found from the solution of the corresponding elastic problem provided that the Laplace transforms of the boundary conditions exist , by a correspondence principle . |
| 46 | Holists , on the contrary , are concerned to understand the ways in which individuals are constrained by their social environments and argue that the best explanations are informed by this standpoint . |
| 47 | Desperate to get work , he 's got a flash car and smoking as well |
| 48 | He called for a more energetic anti-colonial policy by the French and British parties and demanded that the Comintern take ‘ some concrete steps immediately ’ in South-East Asia . |
| 49 | The image is then written to a target disk at high speed and verified if required . |
| 50 | During talks with former leaders Noboru Takeshita and Shintaro Abe and with leading industrial figures , Zou promised to improve further the domestic environment for foreign investment and said that China 's repayment of its foreign debt was guaranteed , adding that the lifting of martial law on Jan. 11 was a sign of stability . |
| 51 | Using Gauss ' theorem for the left-hand side and noting that the volume integral of charge density is just the total amount of charge , eqn ( 2.14 ) takes the form |
| 52 | How about calling it good old spliff or draw or even marijuana ? |
| 53 | Unlike some foreign restaurants that try and transplant you to distant shores by piping out Zorba , Pavarotti or the Bombay sitar quartet , thankfully L'Alouette does n't bother . |
| 54 | When you 've punched out the pattern rows , place the check card behind your newly punched card and check that only blue is showing through the holes . |
| 55 | The first has emerged largely from the traditional study of public administration and argues that transposing a model of management developed in the private sector will fail because public sector management is distinctive ( see for example Elcock 1991 ; Pollitt 1991 ; Stewart and Ranson 1988 ; Flynn 1990 ) . |
| 56 | He comically dismisses his attempts to project himself into the narrative future and finds that the past is rendered elusive by the distortions of the means he uses to recapture it . |
| 57 | The following morning Charlie read an account of the bombing in the Daily Chronicle and learned that over a hundred Londoners had been killed and some four hundred injured in the raid . |
| 58 | As well as Falkland himself , the ‘ Great Tew Group ’ included individuals like John Hales and William Chillingworth , who were opposed to rigid dogma and argued that the laity had the right to interpret scripture for themselves ‘ in the light of private Reason ’ . |
| 59 | Where , when just getting to one 's knees loomed as an unavoidable torture and to lie and wait to be rescued appeared to be merely common sense ? |
| 60 | A look across the Irish Sea finds Stephen Dedalus defining a particular sort of foreignness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man when he meets an English priest and reflects that : |