Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | So , it 's strongly recommended that you cultivate the use of chromatic notes which resolve to diatonic ones , both scalic and chordal . |
| 9 | This makes a change from the 1989/90 accounts which contained a full page of audit qualifications . |
| 10 | Before entering into a discussion of the reasons for the decline of the organized networks , and of the patterns of cattle theft in the first half of the twentieth century , 1 shall first discuss in some detail the administrative policies which affected cattle stealing in its heyday . |
| 11 | The potential for future economic growth depends partly on innovations in production technology , to reduce costs and , crucially , on innovative products which create new markets in themselves . |
| 12 | The element of time is a chief cause of those difficulties in economic investigations which make it necessary for man with his limited powers to go step by step ; breaking up a complex question , studying one bit at a time , and at last combining his partial solutions into a more or less complete solution of the whole riddle . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the growth in the Euro-currency market has provided an enlarged source of borrowing for monetary authorities who wish either to support their exchange rates or to meet the needs of official financing . |
| 14 | The Central Gilts Office ( CGO ) provided marketmakers with computerized accounts which facilitated the transfer of stock before the change of ownership was recorded at the Bank . |
| 15 | The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course . |
| 16 | He is one of the finest hairdressers we have and there is nothing he ca n't do with hair ; whether it 's chignons for Princess Alexandra , wigs for Cher of shoots for vogue . |
| 17 | ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . |
| 18 | In the middle decades of the century , it was increasingly the German-speaking biologists who led the way . |
| 19 | But increasingly we are finding that they are developing across the interstices of the organizational and technical skills which have served us so well in the past . |
| 20 | The high cost of housing in the north London area was proving a barrier to the recruitment of people with the rare technical skills it required . |
| 21 | The loss of such a man at most other clubs would have spelt disaster , but Chapman had foreseen the danger and the solid foundations he had built at the club enabled Arsenal to win another League Championship the following year . |
| 22 | Many of the characteristics of the postwar period which we associate with Fordism , for example , high levels of military spending or private consumption , could just as well be explained in terms of the political institutions which shaped the Fordist era . |
| 23 | Presidential elections on March 20 brought into focus the conflict between , on the one hand , Taiwan 's claim to embody the legitimate government of mainland China , and , on the other hand , the problem that the ossified political institutions which sustained that claim lacked credibility and acceptance among the younger population in particular . |
| 24 | Investigative mastectomy could be considered for women with normal mammograms who present with axillary nodal disease when antibody reactivity supports a primary tumour in the breast . |
| 25 | However , their article states that ‘ investigative mastectomy could be considered for women with normal mammograms who present with axillary node disease when antibody reactivity supports a primary tumour in the breast . ’ |
| 26 | Badr had also frequently criticized the mainstream Moslem Brotherhood in addition to attacking Islamic extremist groups which advocated violence . |
| 27 | Loyalist extremist groups which planted bombs , on the other hand , often gave no warning . |
| 28 | With the right policies they believed it was possible to reduce inflation without incurring excessive levels of unemployment — to keep prices down and to sustain economic growth at the same time . |
| 29 | The connections between pins 4 and 6 and the battery negative line keep the unused inputs which exist on the 4013 at Logic O and prevent false operation . |
| 30 | Jacko does not counter the racist statements of his fellow workers : he appeals to their self-interest and does not criticise the political policies which create and manipulate the labour force . |