Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , Doane 's conclusion was no less pessimistic than Mulvey 's as to the radical potential of this gaze , since she argued that the film narrative in these cases effectively forced the female spectator into a masochistic identification with the female protagonist . |
| 2 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 3 | During early system evaluation it was found that experts much preferred a simple direct dialogue style that presented basic diagnostic information such as test point values and component values , whereas the inexperienced required more directed problem analysis and advice . |
| 4 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 5 | Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government . |
| 6 | It was also a shock to discover that their father 's investments only yielded an income of some £190 per annum net , considerably less than Warnie ( desperate to leave the Army and live on his pension ) had been hoping . |
| 7 | The logic of such views naturally contained a number of contradictions . |
| 8 | You will be aware that Nancy Brown and Reception staff have been considering a staggered approach to Reception staff hours especially given the computerised directory system currently being introduced . |
| 9 | If they were relatively inactive and presented their demands through what the councillors defined as the " proper " ( private ) channels then their demands rarely secured a favourable response . |
| 10 | It was the most important thing he had ever done in his life , he had told Margie Llewellyn , and across a nation the rich and famous , the elegant and the glittering society women who were his clients wholeheartedly echoed the sentiment . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State was able to influence the drafting of the terms of reference and the composition of the working parties ; yet the working parties necessarily contained a majority of professionals and in due course reported in ways which again the Secretary of State could only partially modify . |
| 12 | Maybe the parties foolishly signed a pact which then found its way into the hands of the DTI . |
| 13 | But missionaries constantly encountered the idea of an interaction between supernatural power and material prosperity , and the complexity of this idea only served to increase the sensitivity which they needed to make an impact on the discussion . |
| 14 | Some deputies had voted against an Anglo-French expedition because they thought that Egypt was a distraction from the proper concern of a French government over the lost provinces ; other Frenchmen already envisaged an understanding with Russia . |
| 15 | In the accounts of first meetings , the subjects generally described the situation , physical appearance and attractiveness ( the first meetings described were often with members of the opposite sex ) , details of the initial conversation , comparisons of the person with oneself , and reaction of the other person to themselves . |
| 16 | Needless to say , standards of rug-making went into rapid decline , and , exacerbated by the widespread introduction of poor quality dyes , the reputation of Anatolian rugs soon reached an all-time low from which it has only recently recovered . |
| 17 | Magnus was a great orator whose rousing speeches soon created a massive following among the common folk of the Empire . |
| 18 | When the going got rough the brothers usually sent a deputy to face the unpleasant hostility to which they would be exposed . |
| 19 | She was surprised how bare the gardens had become , except for the lopsided apple tree in the lower orchard whose branches still carried a crop of apples shimmering like tiny brassy moons . |
| 20 | This suggests that subjects always identified a word first and then decided whether or not it rhymed ; and that the rhyme decision took about 140 milliseconds to make after the word had been identified . |
| 21 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 22 | One of the authors once taught a class who applauded at the end of classes they enjoyed . |
| 23 | Illustrating the point , a colleague of one of the present authors once administered a battery of overinclusion ( thought disorder ) tests to a group of local artists . |
| 24 | Islanders also staged an unprecedented protest demonstration in St Helier on May 13 , during which the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey , Air Marshal Sir John Sutton , was shouted down as he tried to explain the decision . |
| 25 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 26 | One persuasive argument says that many dinosaurs probably needed a high metabolic rate when they were not fully grown , since they had to grow , as we have seen , at a great pace . |
| 27 | The Japanese manufacturers also made a " voluntary " commitment to sell an extra 20,000 US-made cars per year , although the new total would still only amount only to some 50,000 , and many of these would be Japanese-brand vehicles made in the USA . |
| 28 | The Hospital Infection Society Working Party 's guidelines also suggested a two tier approach and gave a list of 16 inoculation risk categories of patients . |
| 29 | Soviet and American tests with animals also found a decline in the production of red blood cells that seemed to worsen the longer the animals were in orbit . |
| 30 | The early spice traders also encountered the daunting " home " team of defending mariners , the Bugis tribe , who so terrified them with their skill and ferocity that the word " Boogie man " entered our language , and still haunts our dreams . |