Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt which even Alexandra could see was badly cut , and a heavily pleated cream blouse , the collar fastened with a huge hideous brooch made out of a green polished pebble set in silver . |
| 2 | Palmerston wound up the debate with a forthright speech , which hardly seems to justify Scott 's later remark that it contained ‘ a quantity of poor buffoonery which only Lord P. 's age permits ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ A confidential report of some kind which only PKB customers should have seen . ’ |
| 4 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 5 | From then onwards , and throughout the 1930s , the Conservatives operated within the National government and pushed forward the type of protectionist policies which both Baldwin and Chamberlain favoured . |
| 6 | Thus , perhaps without realising the implications , the Soviet parliament gave the go-ahead for the most revolutionary experiment here since Lenin 's New Economic Policy of the 1920s : for a massive delegation of powers from the centre , permitting a single republic to create its own market-oriented economy , with its own budget , and to redraw economic rules which basically Stalin 's . |
| 7 | But improved cooking instructions would neither identify or make safe those minority of models which even Mr Gummer admitted to needing ‘ more substantial changes of oven design . ’ |
| 8 | The sum , the largest single components of which came from Japan and the USA , exceeded the $600,000,000 which earlier UN estimates had suggested would be necessary to fund the peace process through to the scheduled elections in 1993 . |
| 9 | ‘ Easily the most promising , ’ judged Pacey , in 1961 ; and George Woodcock added that Leonard was one ‘ who could write lines which are no longer good imitation Yeats ; they are lines which only Yeats could have imitated . ’ |
| 10 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 11 | Another firm distinction which both Ashton and MacMillan make clear is between the dances of youth and age or innocence and experience . |
| 12 | Emma had taught her to read before school , and now the chest was piled with golden and rose fairy books , Winnie the Pooh , Alice in Wonderland , and other things which perhaps Ruth did not yet grasp or should not yet be reading : Lord of the Flies , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , Cleopatra . |
| 13 | In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of . |
| 14 | Bells hung on the inside which occasionally Ruth , when in residence , would strike . |
| 15 | It 's a service which only Rentokil could offer and supply , with our broad range of experience and skills across a number of hygiene and cleaning activities . ’ |
| 16 | One of the few areas of common ground which both Keynes and Friedman occupy centres on the definition of a state of overall full employment : full employment prevails when the aggregate supply of labour , L s , equals the aggregate demand for labour , L d , at a unique , market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 17 | Tension was exacerbated by the cold-war rhetoric which both President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher consciously adopted , with the former referring to the ‘ Evil Empire ’ in Eastern Europe and the latter revelling in the ‘ Iron Maiden ’ label which the Russians themselves had affixed to her . |
| 18 | The killing of Yakovlev , a couple of murders in Paris , and another incident which even Fedorov would have preferred to forget . |
| 19 | NEWFAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS , grooveriders extraordinaire whose debut LP ‘ Pigeonhole ’ hit the Top 40 last year , release a new Play It Again Sam single on April 2 . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , in America , the New FADS have signed to Mute/Electra through Play It Again Sam . |
| 21 | After the meal is concluded there is the auction , conducted by a , by then , very inebriated MC whom only Stanley Unwin would understand . |
| 22 | There 's a second situation which again Liz 'll be dealing with . |
| 23 | They sat to hear cases in the papal consistory which under Innocent III met three times in each week . |
| 24 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 25 | The moments which both Devlin and Lloyd remembered most clearly were the perils to Ramsey 's life . |
| 26 | He is a drunkard and a profligate and has certain amorous peculiarities which even Marie — and sometimes the law — finds hard to tolerate . |
| 27 | When I 'm round Jimmy I right Kevin . |
| 28 | It is ironic that his greatest financial disasters were projects which resulted from the interest which both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert showed in his work . |
| 29 | A top line interior decorator had been given a free hand when Hugo had bought the triplex two years ago and no expense had been spared — the walls were hung with some of Hugo 's collection of Old Masters , glowing against the background of watered silk , the shelves were lined with leather bound first editions which neither Hugo nor Sally would ever open , much less read , every nook and cranny was filled with treasures and objets d'art displayed on dainty pedestals . |