Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] and [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days I lived with my parents and when the film resurfaced at a local cinema I convinced them to spend an evening feasting their eyes on those sanguinary sapphics . |
| 2 | The wills and inventories of the inhabitants of Pennine villages , hamlets and farmsteads show that those described as clothiers had livestock amongst their possessions and that the farmers had stores of wool , spinning wheels and looms . |
| 3 | Mother cats do not seem to be very efficient at counting their kittens and if the newcomers have become covered in the ‘ home scent ’ , all is well . |
| 4 | Yusuf held back , coolly remarking that both sides were their enemies and that the more they slaughtered each other the better . |
| 5 | It is , however , a recognition that employees are entitled to information regarding the financial health of their employers and that the public and the Government should be enabled to judge to what extent the company is recognising social obligations and complying with social legislation . |
| 6 | On their complaints of unfair dismissal an industrial tribunal found that the employers were justified in their decision that the employees were in breach of their implied duty in their contracts of employment that they should be loyal to their employers and that the dismissals were not unfair . |
| 7 | The lorries waited under the hoppers to pick up their loads and after a little , one of the lorry men told him to go away . |
| 8 | The Athletic News added its criticism , saying that Northampton Town had a duty to its supporters and that a visit by Newcastle to the County Ground would have helped to popularize football in Northampton . |
| 9 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 10 | When activists like the Cape Town Sixteen fight this system of oppression and exploitation , they are demanding a democratic say in the running of their lives and and the right to determine their own futures . |
| 11 | to explore how courts apply the duty imposed by the Child Care Act 1980 to give the child 's welfare first and paramount consideration ; 2. to examine the practices in use for providing magistrates with impartial information ; 3. to discover whether parents ' solicitors experience difficulties in getting background history of cases from Social Services Departments ; 4. to judge whether parents at are a disadvantage in court ; 5. to monitor how solicitors conduct their cases , and how they emply the various possible lines of argument of the Code of Practice on Access ; 6. to discuss the underlying attitudes of the magistrates and social workers towards access to children in care , the reasons for their viewpoints and whether the publication of the Code caused them to change any of their positions . |
| 12 | Countering this charge , engineer Didier Bayard , employed by the regional archaeology service of Picardie , stated that no Carolingian material had emerged from their surveys and that the new building was to be constructed on a seventeenth-century site . |
| 13 | If true , these matters are of concern to the Bank as supervisor of the [ defendants ] and raise questions as to the continued fulfilment of the minimum criteria for authorisation set out in Schedule 3 to the Banking Act 1987 , which includes inter alia the requirement that directors , controllers and managers of authorised institutions shall be fit and proper to hold their positions and that the business of the institution will be carried on with integrity and skill and in a prudent manner . |
| 14 | The question has been raised over their qualifications and whether the Coastguard should have been informed of the expedition in advance , but it seems there was nothing exceptional in the fact that a school party was canoeing in the open sea . |
| 15 | Years later I was at first comforted to read that an adult man could express similar sentiments about himself : ‘ When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable . |
| 16 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 17 | From such a general classification , discussed in detail below , two very general conclusions can be shown to emerge : that several categories of small towns saw the provision of some form of internal street network to meet the needs of their inhabitants and that the existence of such a system , coupled with other morphological and functional indicators , might well reflect a higher degree of internal organization and urban complexity . |
| 18 | The North-east coalfield developed early because of access to sea routes to the capital ; the other landlocked coalfields catered only for regional markets before canals and navigable rivers enabled them to lower their prices and until the railways opened up national markets . |
| 19 | He argues that more people will live to the full extent of their lifespans and that the onset of disability will be squeezed into the last phase of life . |
| 20 | We believe that parents have the most important influence on their children and that the basis of a sound school education is the partnership between the home and the school . |
| 21 | In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament . |
| 22 | ‘ I assume that we thought that these dependants would wish to accompany their soldiers and that the soldiers would wish to have them with them . |
| 23 | There was never any doubt in his mind that they would or could do so , and indeed he heard their shouts and as the next wave lifted him was able to look down upon them and see that they were luffing to the wind and preparing to beat back towards him . |
| 24 | The special and attractive character of the Ortiz collection is that it is not just an assemblage of objects but the coherent vision of a man who believes that the whole is more than the sum of its parts and that the collector is as creative as the artist . |
| 25 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 26 | I helped Archie to his feet and after a necessary detour into the bathroom launched him on to the landing . |
| 27 | The sergeant stood in front of his men and when the Inspector came along , all the men stood to attention , and the sergeant said , ‘ All correct , sir . ’ |
| 28 | Be aware of your feet and where the body weight is being placed . |
| 29 | These are already helping us to give a better service to our customers and as the systems develop they will allow us to have a more pro-active role in service . |
| 30 | We guarantee that you will receive the regular services of our Clubreps and that the apartment will be cleaned weekly . |