Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The social worker can give them emotional support too , strengthening any network of support that already exists from relatives , friends and neighbours , or trying to form one for them if they are in a position of isolation . |
| 32 | Some unhappy women , whose husbands are unable to offer them emotional support , quite inappropriately turn to their sons . |
| 33 | An ’ that ai n't me usual practice . ’ |
| 34 | The game was more enjoyable for everyone that way . |
| 35 | There is so much ripe fruit that I just ask people to come in and help themselves , also I get to see everyone that way and hear all the news and of course the children love it . |
| 36 | The Principal offered me complete freedom to visit and photograph any part of the complex . |
| 37 | Using the structured eavesdropping technique allowed me complete freedom to sit and observe groups . |
| 38 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 39 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 40 | ‘ Fox , although allowing me complete control over the physical side of making the picture , were strong enough to prevent me changing the script , ’ he said . |
| 41 | The seminar took the view that the timber trade helps preserve forests by giving them economic value . |
| 42 | We should regard Want , Disease , Ignorance and Squalor as common enemies of all of us , not as enemies with whom each individual may seek a separate peace , escaping himself to personal prosperity while leaving his fellows in their clutches . |
| 43 | The integration index expresses numerically certain relevant characteristics of the three persons with whom each migrant most frequently interacts — for example whether or not they are kinsfolk , or whether the ties have been contracted in the premigration period . |
| 44 | Assistance in making these choices is given by the Director of Studies to whom each student is assigned on joining the University . |
| 45 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 46 | Apart from these important changes , specialized antiracist work within the local state has been increasingly identified as an embarrassment by the Labour Party for whom political commitments to antiracism and multiculturalism are apparently a vote loser . |
| 47 | King of the Slums manage as much social comment in a dozen songs as others do in a decade but they belong among bands that eschew political persuasion in favour of chronicling the lives of the despairing or dispossessed , the people for whom political solutions have failed . |
| 48 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 49 | She 's been giving me strange looks ever since I got here — doubtless because it 's not exactly commonplace for the star of the show to make bookings for the lowly make-up artist . ’ |
| 50 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 51 | Do not forget me dear comrade . |
| 52 | The EP will also appoint an Ombudsman to whom European citizens and residents will have access for redress in cases of maladministration . |
| 53 | That seems to me outstanding work . " |
| 54 | ‘ Many parents bring me rebellious teenagers with the plea , ‘ Please change her , doctor ! ' ’ |
| 55 | With my ham and cheese , which were not of my making , they brought me iced seltzer . |
| 56 | It has 10,000 sq ft for sales , and 32 staff , 24 of them full-time equivalents . |
| 57 | Why are statistics not kept of trainees whose employers give them full-time jobs later ? |
| 58 | ‘ We began the composition together , ’ Wordsworth recalled , ‘ on that to me memorable evening . ’ |
| 59 | Instead , Frith sent them strange singers , beautiful and sick like oak-apples , like robins ' pin-cushions on the wild rose . |
| 60 | For various reasons they were wrong ; but illusion of continuity was easily available because they had at least some of their kinsmen at close quarters , met them and socialized with them each day . |