Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , given the fact that they were in the middle of a war the balance of which they were afraid might tip disastrously against them , would they really have opted out other than by a deliberate political decision which would not be taken until well into the future ? |
| 2 | ‘ In the end it is a political decision which will be taken by the council of ministers with the views of officials placed before them , ’ said Mr Claridge . |
| 3 | ‘ I assume you 're using the word ‘ nice ’ in the true sense of ‘ neat ’ , as in the neatly ruthless deals I 'm sure he 's notorious for clinching , or the neat asset-stripping technique which I dare say he 's renowned for ? ’ |
| 4 | Councillors had an understandable reluctance to commit themselves to a political course which would deprive them of access to patronage , and it was for this reason that it was necessary for politicians to provide demonstrations of power . |
| 5 | At the time that Fidel Castro led his revolution to victory and entered Havana with his troops , we had no idea what political course his regime would follow . |
| 6 | Her boyfriend John Champion , 19 , died at the wheel of a stolen Sierra which smashed into a wall at Bristol during a 100mph chase early yesterday . |
| 7 | Because the basis for making comparisons is not always made explicit , it may be helpful to discuss two kinds of descriptive framework which are frequently employed in assessment procedures . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This reference was encouraging to many of the Shah 's Iranian opponents who interpreted it as the presidents support for their struggle against the Shah . |
| 10 | Behind that badge you feel a bit special . |
| 11 | He recovered his rudeness , and said , " I do n't care what sort of bloody birds you 're after . |
| 12 | There is no hint here of structural explanations , still less of critical analyses of alternative political and economic strategies which might be held to ameliorate , if not cure absolutely , unemployment . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 14 | There were two lawful ways to demolish the listed chapel — one was to have the building de-listed and the second was to obtain listed building consent for its total demolition which involved seeking representations from six conservation bodies . |
| 15 | It was designed for the struggle which , as I feared , was before us ; between the two European tendencies which Napoleon I called Republican and Cossack , and which I , according to our present ideas , should designate on the one side as the system of order on a monarchical basis , and on the other as the social republic to the level of which the antimonarchical development is wont to sink , either slowly or by leaps and bounds , until the conditions thus created become intolerable , and the disappointed populace are ready for a violent return to monarchical institutions in a Caesarean form . |
| 16 | I 've got my own system for identification but I 'm not telling that fragolli anything . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The government feels it can rely on er auditors to protect the interests of share holders and the creditors and the other stake holders but I have to tell the minister that that reliance which is now er strengthened by the regulations b by the er the order today has always proved er inadequate in the er in in the past er because poor auditing practices always get covered up , there 's no way for anybody to know how bad or how good er the audit is as long as a company er survives and we have n't developed in this country , the proper institutional framework to regulate auditors er effectively and to actually make them er er accountable . |
| 19 | There seems to have existed a form of Spanish Islam which was like nothing then available anywhere in Europe . |
| 20 | In telephone calls and private meetings they are saying : ‘ Do n't do anything to rock the boat . |
| 21 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 22 | Nkrumah saw this as a contradiction , and was critical , thus annoying Nyerere who should have been a natural ally . |
| 23 | In Le Voyeur ( 1955 ) , the intense preoccupation with specific objects which the travelling watch salesman displays — the figure-of-eight patterns , the girl 's neck , the rope , the cinema poster — is contrived to function as an index of his guilt : Mathias is incriminated by the narrative , although his guilt is never proved conclusively . |
| 24 | Other Labour proposals which the RICS disagrees with include an end to the submitting of duplicate planning applications and a review of development plans every two years . |
| 25 | However , he became embittered with age , losing his fine looks and noble habits , and becoming a surly , cob-webbed ghost who lived in dark caves . |
| 26 | I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders . |
| 27 | By the time of the Middle Ages when the two swords of the secular and the spiritual were sheathed together in ruling Christendom , the official spokesman for orthodoxy , St Thomas Aquinas , could declare : ‘ Heresy is a sin which merits not only excommunication but death , for it is worse to corrupt the faith which is the life of the soul than to issue counterfeit coins which administer to the secular life . |
| 28 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 29 | In general , on small-scale maps it is of course quite pointless to be too precise . |
| 30 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |