Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My new project led me into unexplored realms of psychology which I might otherwise have ignored . |
| 2 | Many words and terms have specific meanings in law which are different from their everyday use . |
| 3 | Rose and Peters argue that there are three broad groups of actors who have traditionally been in favour of higher spending , at least since 1945 : the producers of public goods and services , including leading politicians ; the consumers of public spending , including voters and welfare recipients ; and the suppliers of public goods and services — public officials and professionals dependent upon the state for their income . |
| 4 | For instance , if workers and their leaders regard an all-out strike as a measure of last resort , they may wish first to test management 's resolve with less drastic action such as an overtime ban , or with subtle forms of non-cooperation which affect output and quality . |
| 5 | Analysis isolates possible patterns of error which indicate underlying causes . |
| 6 | Her first series on the Munros drew strong reactions from people who either loved her approach or criticised her for including ‘ flip ’ material . |
| 7 | Behind the specific accounts of meaning we offer in this book lies the general theory of Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1974 ) . |
| 8 | There are even the odd cases of women who refuse to get out of bed until their husbands have brought up their morning paper horoscopes ! |
| 9 | These principles are further supported by specific rules on conduct which are explained below . |
| 10 | And what the other bit of information you got any odd snippets of information you 've got written down there . |
| 11 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 12 | In the monasteries , especially , we can find many interesting cases of specific forms of organization which , while governed by manifest religious rather than secular rules ( and in that sense relatively displaced from the integration of such an organization in the direct social organization as a whole ) , functioned in practice as cultural organizations , of great significance , in learning , in literature , in dramatic writing and in the visual arts . |
| 13 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
| 14 | When admission has taken place , however , the legacy of public and professional attitudes towards parents whose children have entered public care often appears an insur-mountable obstacle to any further constructive contact between parents and their children . |
| 15 | Through a complex set of such exchanges the economic activities of people who are widely dispersed and who are entirely unaware of each other 's existence can be coordinated . |
| 16 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |
| 17 | COMEDY is set to be one of the strong suits of Meridian which takes over the TVS area and its 5.2 million viewers . |
| 18 | In 1806 he designed the hotel and assembly rooms in the suburb of Clifton , which the firm contracted to build ; but at the same time they were speculating by buying unfinished houses in Clifton which they completed and sold , and in 1809 they were overtaken by bankruptcy . |
| 19 | One of the unwritten rules of non-Muslims who work or travel in Muslim countries is that you do n't eat or drink in front of your fasting friends . |
| 20 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |
| 21 | Every living organism is thus constrained as a result of selection to live in what John Bowlby terms its ‘ environment of evolutionary adaptedness ’ , using stable strategies of exploitation which are the best available to it . |
| 22 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 23 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 24 | These tombs and enclosures belonged to and were used by specific groups of people who were also fully utilising the local countryside , partly for the new pursuits of crop-growing and animal husbandry , but also continuing the earlier hunting , fishing and gathering activities . |
| 25 | Apart from the above mentioned general problems there are specific groups in society who will be particularly affected by the legislation . |
| 26 | If the hon. Gentleman has specific cases of hardship which he wishes to raise , there is a straightforward means of doing so . |
| 27 | The aim is to open up higher education to under-represented groups through provision which offers enhanced support plus guaranteed further training at the end of one year . |
| 28 | Rawsthorne points out that Lawrence is more about sexuality than specific acts of sex which account for only two or three sections of the 600-page novel . |
| 29 | ‘ prohibits not only overt discrimination by reason of nationality but also all covert forms of discrimination which , by the application of other criteria of differentiation , lead in fact to the same result … |
| 30 | The rate of unnecessary operations in patients who presented between midnight and 6 am was highest in those who underwent surgery within three hours ( 18/39 , 46% ) ( table ) . |