Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to secure this future we are dependent on nationwide availability of properly capitalised bookshops which are committed to carrying a wide range of stock . |
| 2 | In this chapter we are concerned with key aspects of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , an Act based to some extent on the report of a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Cyril Philips . |
| 3 | However conditions seemed promising in the morning and we set off with lunch packs in our bags and hope in our hearts ! on the two-hour boat run there are always lots of birds to look at , and soon after we left ‘ the narrows ’ of the harbour entrance we were aware of black-browed albatrosses . |
| 4 | As a result it is common in mandatory transfer notice provisions to see " good and bad leader " provisions , so that management who " walk out " within a specified period after completion are penalised by receiving an amount equal to the lower of market value or the amount they initially subscribed . |
| 5 | The Levitation It 's OK To Like are back with their third single . |
| 6 | He was educated in Falmouth , and as a child he was interested in natural history . |
| 7 | In other words , while Tillich maintains that when finite particulars are given the status of ultimacy it is detrimental to true religion and a form of demonization , Gandhi insists that symbols which become fetishes are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 8 | In this article we are concerned with ego-identity achievement in respect to career . |
| 9 | Yet to the searching eye it is full of ancient treasure , none greater than the basilica of Sant'Ambrogio , of St Ambrose . |
| 10 | At this point he was overcome with bitter disappointment . |
| 11 | During this period he was active in public service in Wales , and devoted himself to the development of scouting , and became a friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement . |
| 12 | Both before and after his retirement he was active in public affairs in his locality . |
| 13 | Followers of Gandhi explicitly maintain that he was essentially a practical man with no concern for metaphysics or philosophical speculation , yet it is clear that whenever he attempted to explain what he meant by Truth he was involved in metaphysical speculation whether he or his followers realized it or not . |
| 14 | An interface , in computer jargon , is simply a means of connecting the computer to the world outside its box — in this instance we are concerned with connecting printers but it could equally be a cassette recorder , joystick or another computer that we wished to connect . |
| 15 | Prone to blockage they are unsuitable for general use . |
| 16 | This view , we now know , is misleading : probably more than any other single factor it is responsible for past failures to understand the socialization process . |
| 17 | Last night he was stable in intensive care after emergency surgery . |
| 18 | In this respect they are similar to ethnographic restudies ( p. 92 ) . |
| 19 | Should the ego fail to satisfy the id it becomes prey to neurotic anxiety arising out of the strength of its instinctual drives ; if it fails the superego it is subject to moral anxiety ; and if it can not meet the demands of the outside world it is likely to experience realistic anxiety . |
| 20 | ‘ Combined with the taut steering it 's great for narrow country lanes . |
| 21 | From 1795 to 1800 he was apprenticed to his uncle Samuel [ q.v. ] , during which time in 1797 he started exhibiting at the Royal Academy , and in the beginnings of his career he was indebted in different ways to both Samuel and his other architect uncle , James [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 23 | Of course they 're ready to fucking run . |
| 24 | ‘ Having run out of excuses for the abject failure of your Government 's economic policies , ’ he said , ‘ you are now trying to pin the blame on your predecessor , in whose Government you were responsible for economic policy . ’ |
| 25 | As to accountability ; this implies that it is not sufficient for a government to justify its existence because at some time in the past it was representative of popular opinion ; for the two may have diverged since then . |
| 26 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 27 | For the first time in his life he was free from corporate restraints , to say what he really thought . |
| 28 | So it 's wrong to see federalism in a sense as an equal partnership between the states and the , and the central government it is biased towards central government , always has been so and has in become increasingly biased towards it i in modern times . |
| 29 | Whenever someone undertakes interesting experiments or activities on the air it is open to other operators around the world to find out what is happening , join in , and make some contribution themselves . |
| 30 | Given the difficulty of identifying the different types of dementia it is usual for epidemiological studies of this disease to concentrate upon organic brain failure as a single condition . |