Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The panel will try to assess the recruit 's ability to remain impartial and courteous even under pressure and their ability to keep any strong opinions they may have from influencing the advice process .
2 Behind that badge you feel a bit special .
3 He recovered his rudeness , and said , " I do n't care what sort of bloody birds you 're after .
4 Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced .
5 Smith had a wide circle of friends who included the members of the locally influential Brigg family , Sir Isaac Holden , first MP for Keighley , John Bright , whose free-trade views he shared unreservedly , John Morley ( Viscount Morley of Blackburn ) , Sir Henry Roscoe , and , not least , Andrew Carnegie [ qq.v. ] , whom he considered the most remarkable man that he had ever met .
6 In telephone calls and private meetings they are saying : ‘ Do n't do anything to rock the boat .
7 ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before .
8 In general , on small-scale maps it is of course quite pointless to be too precise .
9 We provide a full sailing programme with rescue cover at least six hours a day ; we do n't allow sailing in strong winds without rescue cover , so if level 5 sailors ( can carve gybe ) wish to sail outside normal hours they must arrange alternative rescue cover .
10 But what Sheriff Irvine Smith has , with compelling cause shown , denied us in his Introduction he has amply redeemed in the justiciary cases he has placed before us and in his commentary thereon .
11 Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him .
12 There is n't , you know , there is n't one thing is that we need to , with the short-term programmes we did n't do it work out the financial we need to go one stage further identify where the labour is
13 Each Easter he made wonderful bejewelled eggs for the tsars or kings of Russia .
14 Despite the conflicting accounts it is clear that Richard had the upper hand and that William des Barres lost his valuable war-horse .
15 In due course we will add rights and freedoms not currently included in the Convention , extending into a full UK Bill of Rights .
16 Clearly there is some chicanery going on and perhaps in due course we will find out the truth .
17 In due course we shall see that people 's standard of living hinged broadly on their position in the landholding hierarchy , and it will be necessary to examine this after reviewing the material conditions it enabled them to enjoy .
18 Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs .
19 In due course we will witness similar , half a world away on the Mile End Road . ’
20 In due course we might look closer at that episode with the Gilberd : she admits after much blushing and prevarication that he accused her in the High Street delicatessen of baby-snatching — did it openly , in a loud voice .
21 As for the real problem , we are in the midst of discussions with the Building Societies Association and others and in due course we shall make an announcement that will build on the assistance that we have already provided .
22 That is why in due course we shall be making proposals to do just that .
23 to some degree but not all and you know in in due course we will provide you with a full breakdown of this , exactly what is in and what is n't in .
24 We hope that our continuing work will shed light on these different concepts , and in due course we shall publish our results in medical journals .
25 I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses .
26 In due course they will arrive in Safra to be offloaded over a beach and thence travel by road into the theatre of operations .
27 To each meeting members brought rare plants for general discussion and in due course they decided to publish their findings in a series of illustrated catalogues .
28 No doubt in due course they would become equally vocal in their complaints about the French , but Thiercelin decided that so far as possible his own behaviour should be above reproach .
29 He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood .
30 But both found themselves possessed of a consuming interest in astronomy , to which in due course they devoted the rest of their lives after disposing of other distractions — in Hubble 's case , his law , and national service in two world wars .
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