Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 2 | Prolonged pancolonic recordings may play an important role in elucidating the physiological mechanisms underlying different patterns of colonic motility and their functional significance . |
| 3 | In 1370 , when the war had resumed , the clerical representatives would agree only to a grant of two tenths instead of the three sought ; the prelates , however , had already conceded three tenths , and their pressure and that of royal delegations eventually coerced the proctors of the lesser clergy into acquiescing , once again in the expressed hope that their grievances would be remedied . |
| 4 | Barry Hills is expecting his Cesarewitch winner Nomadic Way to reach the top in due course but his one run this season hardly suggests he will beat Cruising Altitude receiving only 4lb . |
| 5 | I have an application to make to your Lordship er in due course when your Lordship feels it is appropriate for an application to be made . |
| 6 | De Beauvoir 's lifelong habit of keeping her emotions under ‘ constant , rigid control ’ is seen to have its origins in the repressive upbringing that her mother attempted to impose . |
| 7 | A final climb to the hut finds a way over ice polished rocks , made simple by ladders that snake upwards almost to the hut door , where the friendly guardian and her daughter made us welcome . |
| 8 | Ollier ( 1988 ) discusses the various types of volcanic products and their associated landforms in some detail . |
| 9 | Make sure you see some of Tenerife 's fascinating scenery during your holiday — join in some of our most popular trips , including a cruise on the Nostramo , an authentic Spanish galleon or our ‘ Skool Dinners ’ BBQ ; the ‘ Last Resort ’ , a special cabaret by the reps in Tenerife 's top nightclub and the very popular Medieval Night — a delicious banquet in an old castle with jousting displays followed by a live , top named band . |
| 10 | Communications between other professional groups and their clients are not similarly privileged . |
| 11 | ‘ We would encourage people to look at their total income and their outgoings and work out if they can afford to take on new loans , ’ said Mr Adair . |
| 12 | Hungary appeared to take a step in the right direction when its rulers voted to transmute the old Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party into a new , reformist-led Socialist Party — and in effect divorced the party from the state . |
| 13 | Thames Valley Police say they remain concerned about the outstanding firearms and their investigation , involving police forces around the country , continues . |
| 14 | Thames Valley Police say they remain concerned about the outstanding firearms and their investigation , involving police forces around the country , continues . |
| 15 | Pak Hon-yong was the most obvious choice in terms of political experience but his power base was in the south and he disliked Kim Il Sung , a feeling that was heartily reciprocated . |
| 16 | The anxiety was more one of style , about its bureaucracy , its lack of enthusiasm for social and economic change and its susceptibility to venality and materialism ( most clearly expressed in its use of Joint Fund money ) . |
| 17 | The summer that was meant to be a grandiloquent celebration of Spanish glory and its new role in Europe and as a bridge to Latin America is turning sour . |
| 18 | The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear , in order to maximise the insult and humiliation ( and hence the damages ) . |
| 19 | The third kind of request relates both the locational properties of spatial entities and their attributes : for example , pick out those regions of type X which have among their neighbours at least one region of type Y. List those states of the USA which have more than 1000 kilometres of Interstate highway . |
| 20 | The synthesis of geographical facts relating to the locational properties of spatial entities and their associated attributes is a necessary counterbalance to analytical studies carried out in physical and human geography . |
| 21 | The whole organism can then have , as an adult , the same powers in its asexual buds and its sexual organs , because the same material is there : namely , ‘ gemmules ’ collected from all over the body . |
| 22 | In spectral terms this means that new frequencies are generated , the main ones being the sum of the strong and weak frequencies are generated , the main ones being the sum of the strong and weak frequencies and their difference . |
| 23 | A good exhibit is that which commemorates the Pyrenean climbers and their notable ascents , such figures as Count Henry Russell or Ramond de Carbonnières , who was the first into the field and made thirty five separate ascents of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre between the years 1787 and 1810 . |
| 24 | ‘ And their classic response when their partner demonstrates emotion is simply to walk away from it . ’ |
| 25 | On a more general level , the treatment of the figures in terms of simple , angular shapes or planes arranged in shallow depth foreshadows some of the later techniques which Picasso and Braque evolved to suggest the forms of solid objects and their relationship to the space around them . |
| 26 | Labour wants to hide behind it , to disguise the incompetence and extravagance of Labour authorities and their lack of an alternative . |
| 27 | If rest and relaxation are approached with the same openness and with the same willingness to learn as the changing of negative emotional states and our health , they can be used to heal us and to strengthen our health and emerging state of mind . |
| 28 | The most skilled professional jewellers and their craftsmen have focussed attention on the qualities which first brought men to recognize particular substances as symbols of outstanding excellence . |
| 29 | She slid a hand through her newly washed hair and her eyes rolled desperately from Dexter to his boss . |
| 30 | Rather than starting from the position that these poets write out of a different social and economic experience than their polite contemporaries , Southey focuses on their lack of formal education . |