Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so has anybody got any sort of strong opinions about who should go ? |
| 2 | The Centre for Local Economic Strategies in its report Channel Tunnel : Vicious Circle is equally vociferous in calling for government measures to help the regions . |
| 3 | In contrast to the Knights of the White Wolf , the armour and weapons of the Knights Panther are of a more traditional nature — they wear full battle armour and carry tall lances as their main weapon . |
| 4 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 5 | Learning , though , seems hardly to figure , unless it is in technical discussions about its psychological character , and how it might be improved . |
| 6 | Briefly , he touched her face , his strong fingers on her cheek , his thumb beneath her jaw , tilting it upwards . |
| 7 | Linking strong fingers with hers , Vitor kept her upright as they made their way down the bank . |
| 8 | He yawned , dragging strong fingers through his thick dark hair . |
| 9 | She hung in the room , strong arms around her waist , strong fingers around her legs . |
| 10 | I have had many pleasant discussions with him , but I must say to him and to the House in all firmness that to ask us to talk about justice as politicians is to go down a very dangerous road . |
| 11 | There are conflicting accounts of what actually transpired during these interviews . |
| 12 | The indictment of this book is not only that the authorities have permitted certain specific excesses of which examples are described , but that they have deliberately promoted and condoned violence , crime and racketeering in order to alienate both their terrorist and political opponents from their natural sympathisers . |
| 13 | In practice we should draw a graph of the parental values against their offspring values , and if the graph shows any relationship the character is heritable . |
| 14 | Two other matched pairs in which the Thou dominates as a focus of shameful action are 57 and 58 , 92 and 93 . |
| 15 | It was the highest level of direct contact between the two Korean states since their formation in 1948 , and was the first official border crossing since September 1985 , when family reunions had been arranged under the auspices of the Red Cross [ see pp. 34165-66 ] . |
| 16 | Its style had made Sean 's terse epistles to his mother seem like florid prose : ‘ FATHER DIED LAST NIGHT . |
| 17 | As a result Diana considered her wedding day to be one of the most emotionally confusing times of her life . |
| 18 | Nowadays however , we have a vast selection of devices , manufactured from a wide range of materials that assure the fishkeeper of total elimination of fishwaste and associated products from their aquarium or pond . |
| 19 | However , speculative pressure , stimulated by the increasing size and mobility of capital flows , eventually brought about the suspension of official dollar convertibility into gold and the subsequent abandonment by individual monetary authorities of their obligation to maintain fixed exchange rates . |
| 20 | However given the extent of monopoly ( and oligopoly ) in the NHS , the power of professional groups to win concessions , and the political need to guarantee equality of access the government has been forced to set narrow rules within which competition is allowed . |
| 21 | Many of the sounds we hear emanating from insects , for example , are only the bottom end of a spectrum of sound signals much of which lie above the auditory frequencies to which our ears are attuned . |
| 22 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 23 | Which is a lot is n't it really , once we come down to it , you know we 've had a two solid hours of what God has been trying to teach us today . |
| 24 | It will attract global investment , employ the latest technology and use the advanced skills of its people to provide goods and services to nearly 3 billion people . |
| 25 | He was badly wounded in Dublin during the troubles of 1919–21 , in which he admired the technical skills of his Irish guerrilla opponents . |
| 26 | Explaining why Mujadid , was sent to London to further his education , group chief geologist Tim Burnhill said : ‘ We are committed to enhancing and improving the technical skills of our employees , and the Imperial College course is deemed to be one of the best of its type anywhere in the world . |
| 27 | His wisdom and strategic vision laid the solid foundations on which we will continue to build . |
| 28 | It is not insignificant that private economic institutions rarely take Western political institutions as their model for decision-making . |
| 29 | Research turned towards the policy process itself , to the people who took the decisions and to the local political institutions in which they operated . |
| 30 | From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme . |